It is said that a second before a person dies, the scene of a lifetime will flash before his eyes like a movie, I believe. In the transition from human to wolf, the hero's eyes flashed death scenes many times. When he walked around the city with the dead girl's substitute, he seemed to realize that she was not alive, and he was already dead.
This film reminds me of Her Memories, and the best explanation is that both films are Buddhist films that embody part of the Buddhist worldview. If you take it as a political allegory or a philosophical form, it seems too superficial and simple, but if you look at it from a Buddhist point of view, you will find the film's profoundness and imagery, and many of the vague expressions in the film become understandable.
The scene of a man rescuing a woman is repeated in Oshii Mori's films. It is his specialty to emotionalize and emotionalize philosophy. In fact, animation itself is a lyrical method for Oshii Mori, not a narrative method, which should be noted.
There is also "Aerial Killer", which is not easy to explain with philosophy, because it is really superficial work, and it can often be seen from another angle. For example, from a literary point of view, it can be regarded as a poem, a desperate love story, or a suspense novel, all of which are outstanding.
The following reprints several reliable film reviews and information (the following content is reprinted).
1. It looks like
2008-03-09 18:22:03 From: A lot of meatballs (language is a kind of out of control.)
Remember when it started. On the bus, he slowly and feebly put his right hand on Griphook's left hand and leaned his head over.
Whether in the world of people or the world of wolves, I am always so tired.
"You can't come over,"
"You can't come over."
If you can't tangle, there will be no pain. If relieved I can not see all this as killing.
2. The heart of the wolf is like iron, but the heart of the heart is like lead
2008-07-22 15:56:51 From: [Signed out] The big bad
wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood, the stern narrative can't scare anyone, the fairy tale has no indented details, and once coaxed children to bed as a child The story of sleeping peacefully, after they became adults, slowly gave birth to a different kind of deterrent.
Contrary to another comment on this film, for me, Hayao Miyazaki's fresh and innocent, Otomo Keyang's sharp black, Jin Min's jumping and restrained, and Xinkaicheng's delicate beauty can't reach my heart, although Totoro's Wonderful and entertaining, the order of Cannon Street is admirable, the division of Wei Ma is terrifying, and the train station in Xinhai City is warm, but they are still too shallow.
Oshii Mamoru's Little Red Riding Hood is still innocent but not innocent. The crime of the little girl who delivered the bomb is unforgivable. The hesitation of the man wolf not being able to shoot is not at all due to sympathy or pity, it is the restraint of animal nature. Just like in the fairy tale, when the big bad wolf saw Little Red Riding Hood for the first time, he didn't immediately jump up and eat it, so that he could eat his grandmother.
The saddest thing is that Oshii Mamoru's hunter didn't just pass by and killed the wolf. In order to kill the wolf, the hunter did not hesitate to use Little Red Riding Hood as bait, and at the same time pretended to be a big wolf to tempt Little Red Riding Hood. The hunter has arranged the whole trap. In the face of the ruthless and calm hunter, the animal nature of the big wolf has no room to deal with, and the little red riding hood can only try to push the gray wolf into the abyss in order to get rid of his own desperate situation. After being shaken by hypocrisy and deceit, Little Red Riding Hood's innocence is no match for the claws of the Big Bad Wolf.
And this ending did not win. The hunter's skin gradually grew wolf's hair, the human eyes showed a bloodthirsty light, and the human teeth were as sharp as blades...
3. Darkness devours
the soul. This is a masterpiece that narrates the annihilation of humanity in a harsh living environment. Although the film is not supervised by Mamoru Oshii, his strong personal style permeates throughout. Of course, this film has a darker tone than any of his other works.
The soundtrack of the whole film is excellent, using a lot of electric guitars commonly used in rock music to form a tone of despair and mania. The story of Little Red Riding Hood runs through and successfully sets off the bloody and tragic atmosphere. It is the basis of the whole film's conception, and it is also a symbolic prophecy that heralds the ending of the story. Incidentally, in the original Grimm's fairy tale, man was eventually eaten by wolves and was not rescued.
Another thing that is more special is that this story does not distinguish between good and evil. The author has no such intention at all. So, what appears before our eyes is only heavy deception and betrayal, and finally a desperate plea. In such an inescapable darkness and oppression, personal struggle is utterly futile and hopeless.
4. The world of man and the world of wolves
2009-06-10 12:54:50 From: antbuster (kill an ant)
In fact, there is only one world.
It is absurd to measure wolf behavior by human standards.
In terms of cruelty alone, a man who walks on two legs is more than any other, legged or legless, tailed or tailless, herbivorous or meat-eating, in the sky and in the ground. , anything and everything, must be more ruthless ---- whether it is the same or the different.
If the wolf can understand this cartoon, he will definitely cry out, he is obviously human, why should he be involved with the wolf?
5. The town of gentleness is the tomb of heroes
2009-03-14 00:28:05 From:
The gesture of the cicada girl swept her hair behind her ear in the wind, breaking the emptiness of the woman's soft whispering voice, standing side by side in the rain Under the narrow eaves to shelter from the rain, the hurried kiss and the long hug under the moonlight.
All this is just a fragile false warmth, and the hardest thing to give up is this fragile, even false warmth.
The woman who was chosen to seduce Fu was characterized only by the resemblance to the face of the dead girl "because of her kindness".
In the phantom, Little Red Riding Hood, who was chased by the wolf, quietly changed from the appearance of a dead girl to the image of the girl in front of her. The blood smeared the white face of the young girl in the vision is unbearable, and soon the same blood smeared on the wrinkled face of the uncle makes people feel indifferent.
Bian Jian's conspiracy is nothing more than that. The purity and weakness of this woman make people feel close, and this warmth and sweetness may soften the mind of a man. The arrogant and noble lone wolf will break free from all shackles in order to defend his lover, but in the cold reality, Fu has wiped out the last trace of humanity in his heart, and the wolf finally ate Little Red Riding Hood.
6. Cruel Story
2006-09-04 18:08:22 From: The blue cat under the moon has no time and I have no time (Oops! This link seems to be broken.)
"Why are your eyes so big?" Why are your nails so long? ? Why are your teeth so big? ? ? ......"
It turns out that the real ending of the story is this, Little Red Riding Hood can't escape the fate of being eaten by wolves, and there is no good hunter to save her.
If I had not witnessed the first girl's self-destruction, maybe the second tragedy would not have happened. Two times in a row, there was nothing I could do; or was it deliberately refusing to help? If it is the latter, it would be too cruel and cold-blooded.
He didn't choose to be a wolf, but people didn't accept him. He didn't want to be a wolf all his life, but he couldn't take off the wolf's skin. He couldn't save her, so he could only watch her die in his arms. This time, he was still just a witness.
His heart will only become two possibilities, hard as iron, or collapse and disintegrate.
Once you choose to fight, you must be loyal to your choice for life.
Love, here is a fraudulent arrangement of intrigue.
At that moment, he had refused to take her to escape from here, and his whole life would be devastated by this decision.
The girl whose voice was as meticulous as cotton was just a bait for human cloth. When people thought that the wolf had swallowed the bait and could not wait to close the net, they were chased and killed by the wolf instead.
This story is iron-grey and piercingly cold. All I heard was the mournful sobbing and the low howl of the wolf. How to describe this heavy, heavy and breathless.
Amamiya's psychological changes can be seen. She is the bait in the light after all, but the volt in the dark is like a wolf watching and waiting, patient, calm, decisive, cruel, and hit with a single blow.
But, I'd rather believe that his nightmares were out of unease, his actions were out of sincerity, and he struggled to hold back the shot at the end, and he never fired that shot.
I just hope that this is just a story and never happens.
I want to turn my head away, I want to cover my ears, I want to close my eyes, but I can't move. The girl lost all her fantasies and courage, and the knight she was waiting for was the wolf who killed her. The lips and teeth she once kissed pressed against her throat, she once entrusted a hand of trust and grabbed her heart, she once thought that it was a loved one, but it was just a wolf grinding its teeth and sucking blood.
"We are not people in wolf skins, we are wolves in human skins. 』
Attachment: [Wolf] Incident File "Decryption" No. 19991117
2010-08-28 15:11:38 From: wingboys (Zhuhai)
By reading comics and consulting relevant information, we will comprehensively sort out the background and related forces of the "Wolf" story , organization and characters are as follows:
Story Background
For several years after the war, the Japanese government adopted extreme economic reform measures in order to restore the country's vitality as soon as possible, stimulated the rapid development of industry and commerce, and made rapid economic growth in a short period of time. The source of hidden dangers and chaos under the surface has been surging uneasy. Social contradictions continue to intensify, and a series of social problems such as the disparity between the rich and the poor, unemployment, crime, etc., make the government helpless and trapped in a predicament. There are many factions within the government, and they are fighting against each other. When the government was unable to take care of itself, the resistance movement dominated by grassroots workers and the unemployed grew unprecedentedly, and even armed forces against the government emerged. In Tokyo, the capital with many tourists and a rapidly expanding population, murders, arson, and mass riots often occur, and social order is extremely chaotic. In order not to use the "Self-Defense Forces" to effectively suppress the pro-democracy movement and anti-government armed forces, and at the same time to combat the arrogance of the "autonomous police" under the supervision of the National Police Agency in an attempt to upgrade the "national police", the government established the National Security Council. Yes, the capital police agency that actually has relatively independent privileges - the Metropolitan Police. Since then, the capital city of Tokyo has become the arena for the contest between the ruthless "capital police" and the anti-government armed groups accustomed to terrorist attacks. Over the years, the increasingly large and domineering "Capital Police" has caused the government to worry. Coupled with the decline of the anti-government armed groups, and the people's complaints about the abuse of power and murder by the "Capital Police" special fleet, the government has tried every means. Suppress it, suspend it, dismember it, integrate it. With the government's acquiescence, the National Police Agency and the "capital police" fought openly and secretly with each other. The "Capital Police" is also divided into two factions: one is the forces headed by the Ministry of Public Security and Security, which advocates disbanding the special fleet and merging with the "autonomous police" to follow the trend; Do everything possible, and wrestled with the Ministry of Public Security, which colluded with the National Police Agency.
Relevant Organizations
National *Public Safety* Committee: The highest administrative decision-making organization in charge of national *public*security, nominally supervising the National Police Agency and the "Capital Police", two government violence agencies at the same level, representing the will of the government, and focusing on integrating the National Police Agency and the "Capital Police". The two arrogant forces of the "Capital Police" are allowed to attack each other.
National Police Agency: The state agency responsible for social security functions. It has jurisdiction over the Metropolitan Police Department and the "autonomous police" responsible for supervising various places. It wants to annex the "autonomous police" that are not affiliated with it and upgrade it to the national level to expand its power, but it is blocked. The government established the "Capital Police" to suppress it. Later, because the "Capital Police" was in power, the government allowed the government to acquiesce in a battle with the "Capital Police".
① Metropolitan Police Department: It is an agency directly under the National Police Agency and is the main execution unit of comprehensive management functions. There is an elite special team set up inside, which often clashes with the special aircraft team of the "Capital Police".
②Self-government police: The establishment is a grass-roots public security unit affiliated with the local "Daofu County Public Security Committee", but it is actually managed by the National Police Agency. Its institutions and personnel are several levels lower than those of the National Police Agency or the Metropolitan Police. The National Police Agency has been trying every means to get it out of the "Provincial Prefectural Public Security Committee" and then officially use it for its own use through promotion.
Metropolitan Police: In order not to use the Self-Defense Forces to suppress the escalating pro-democracy movement and anti-government violence, and to suppress the National Police Agency, which was about to be upgraded to "autonomous police" at that time, the government established a third-party armed force. Aroused the concern of the government, and then tried to weaken and integrate its power. It mainly has two departments: the Ministry of Security and the Ministry of Public Security, and the General Affairs Department, which is responsible for internal affairs, welfare and other functions.
①Capital Police--Ministry of Public Security: Responsible for the anti-violence criminal investigation and inspection work within its functions, there is a Public Security Bureau (at the same level as the special aircraft team). The special forces were at odds, and at a critical moment in the survival of the "Metropolitan Police", they were also used by the National Police Agency as a force to split the "Metropolitan Police".
② Metropolitan Police -- Security Department -- Special Mobile Team (referred to as Special Forces): The security department under the "Capital Police" is the main armed anti-riot enforcement force of the "Capital Police", and it is also the "Capital Police" competing for political status emboldened. Due to its well-equipped and domineering brutality, it is envied by colleagues and hated by the public. It has also become a lever for relevant units with ulterior motives to attack the "capital police", and there are strong domestic calls for their disbandment. The mobile team consists of three main combat squadrons and nine squadrons, all of which are designated by the name of "dog", in addition to four logistics squadrons (equipped with each combat squadron) for transportation, communication, hygiene and management, and a special forces squadron (dispatched on demand). to each combat squadron).
Human Wolf: A secret agency set up within the "Capital Police" special fleet, specializing in espionage and counter-espionage work. Its personnel are scattered in various government departments and have no clear political ideals, but only for the sake of their own (special fleet) interests.
The Sect: Anti-government armed guerrillas, mostly from the bottom of society and radicals, are good at carrying out terrorist attacks and inciting mass riots.
The main characters
Fu Yigui: the male protagonist. "Capital Police" special plane striker. The expression is dull, indifferent, and emotionally numb due to long-term killing training and work, and only occasionally subconsciously subconsciously due to special stimuli. During a rioting operation, due to his temporary tenderness towards the enemy, he triggered a vicious accident of bomb explosions in non-conflict areas, and became the entry point for the Ministry of Public Security to attack the special aircraft team. The members of "Wolf" were successfully used as anti-espionage tools, which severely damaged the Ministry of Public Security.
Amamiya Kei: The heroine. This is a member of the anti-government armed guerrilla logistics organization "Little Red Riding Hood", codenamed "Long Hair". After being captured by the public security department, he became a spy under coercion and inducement, and was ordered to pretend to be Achuan Qisheng's sister, in order to approach Fu Yigui and create a scandal of collusion between police and bandits.
Bian Jiantun: "Capital Police" Public Security Department cadre. He was originally a member of the special mobile team, and was later transferred to the Ministry of Public Security. He was Fu Yigui's only friend in the police training school. As a chess piece of the Ministry of Public Security, he was placed beside Fu Yigui to create favorable evidence to frame the special aircraft team, and was later killed by Fu Yigui.
Achuan Qisheng: Originally a young and charming middle school student, he was expelled from school for participating in anti-government demonstrations, and later joined the anti-government armed guerrilla logistics organization "Little Red Riding Hood". During a confrontation with the "capital police", she was chased by Fu Yigui and blew herself up. Her death stimulated Fu Yigui's conscience and guilt, and also cast an indelible shadow in Fu Yigui's heart.
Muroto Civilization: The leader of the Public Security Department of the "Capital Police" and the boss of Atsushi Bianmi. Originally a senior cadre of the Metropolitan Police Department, he was transferred when the "Capital Police" was established. With a calm and steady appearance, he is devious and insidious. Under the general trend, he actively colluded with the National Police Agency to disband the special fleet, aiming to merge the "Capital Police" into the "Autonomous Police" and belong to the National Police Agency.
Handa Moto: Deputy Captain of the "Capital Police" Special Task Force, and also the leader of the internal secret spy agency "Wolf". Specializing in espionage infiltration work, he is a person who is extremely difficult to guess.
Tabe Hachiro: On the surface, he is an instructor of the "Capital Police" police training school, but he is actually the commander of the specific operations of the "Wolf" organization, Handa Moto's confidant, and the teacher of Atsushi Bianjian and Fu Yigui.
PS:
1. Many people regard Hachiro Tabe as Handa Yuan.
2. The composition of the fighting relationship in the film is as follows:
"National Police Agency & Metropolitan Police - Public Security Department" VS "Metropolitan Police - Police Department - Special Task Force [Wolf]"
In the final analysis, it is the relationship between the reformists and conservatives within the "Capital Police". The intervening force is the National Police Agency, and the National Security Committee appears to be standing by, but it is actually the main driving force behind the struggle.
Some thoughts on "decrypted" files
Oshii's "Wolf" is a serious and heavy work, maintaining Oshii's usual cruel and critical style. Different from the gorgeousness of "Ghost in the Shell", the whole film is dominated by gray tones, with a gloomy atmosphere and a simple painting style. In terms of the content of the story, the structure is rigorous and there is no extra fancy. The open and secret struggle between the special aircraft team within the "Capital Police" and the Ministry of Public Security constitutes the framework of the story. It expresses the criticism of human nature (human nature here can be rigidly divided into plant-based "human nature" and animal-based "wolf nature", which interacts with people) - people in this urban jungle pursue the same principles as the virgin forest The law of "the strong eat the weak", when there is a personal conflict of interests between people, they all try to protect their own interests and harm each other. In the end, whoever is emotional will be the ultimate loser! Bian Jiandun, who was born in the special plane team, thinks he has a "wolf nature", but he is no longer a wolf who has left the wolf pack and entered the human circle and is supported by hunters. At best, he looks like a wild wolf but completely believes in "human emotions". hound. He miscalculated the role of emotion, thinking that emotion was Fu Yigui's weakness, so he threw Kei Amemiya as the bait of emotion, but he ignored that emotion was Kei Amamiya's weakness. Emotion" on! Although Fu Yigui has been emotionally shaken and struggled, he finally distorted his "human nature" and stretched his "wolf nature". The "human wolf" leader Handa Yuan believes in Fu Yigui's "wolf nature" instead of the so-called human emotions. This is the difference between him and Bian Jiantun in terms of logical thinking and cognition. People who use "humanity" to think and solve problems, while wolves in human skin use "wolf nature" to think and solve problems. "Wolf" humans and "human" wolves have a superficial and substantial difference, which is also the key to the success or failure of their battles.
From the other side of "Wolf", we can see that when the collective achieves certain goals or pursues the maximization of interests, the individual interests in front of the collective interests are not valued, and the individual emotions are even more insignificant. In order to ensure the realization of collective goals and the acquisition of interests, it is necessary to de-individualize, to flatten the three-dimensional plane of individuals in the collective, and make them willing to be one of them into a coordinated and unified overall layout, and all behaviors must obey and benefit the collective ( Just like a musician with great personality, when he performs alone, he can freely express himself, but when he joins the orchestra to participate in group performances, he must restrain his personal edge and obey the conductor, and cannot show too individualized performance. Otherwise, it will destroy the overall beauty of the music), and even make personal sacrifices for the collective when necessary. The same is true of espionage work. The individual must have the determination to sacrifice everything, including emotions and even life, for the organization, without taking the general morality in mind, and be able to base the success of the mission on deceiving and deceiving others. over damage. As an outstanding member of the cruel wolf-like special aircraft team, due to the strong inertia generated by special occupations, the impact and destruction of personal sensibility - almost insensitive, Fu Yigui can restrain and even sacrifice personal emotions, while Amamiya Keiji Because he is passively working for the collective (Ministry of Public Security), he is not a professional spy, lacks professional quality, has no experience in dealing with conflicts between work ethics and personal emotions, and has weak willpower, so he cannot effectively control personal emotions to achieve organizational goals. This is also an important reason for the failure of the collective overall plan.
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Supplementary description
"Human Wolf" is just a biography in the entire "Legend of the Dog and Wolf" series, which is the four parts of the "Legend of the Dog and Wolf" according to the sequence first song.
According to relevant information, with the gradual decline of the anti-government armed forces, the "Capital Police" special aircraft team could not escape the fate of the dead. ), the autonomous police carried out armed and forcible disbandment. The special aircraft team refused to obey, resisted stubbornly, and lost all casualties. Of course, the fate of Fu Yigui, Handa Moto, Tabe Hachiro and others would not be good. The disintegration of the special fleet also means that the "capital police" is about to perish.
When watching "Human Wolf", I felt that the Ministry of Public Security and the National Police Agency of the "Capital Police" were in a weak position and were being played by the "Human Wolf" organization of the "Capital Police" special aircraft team. Unexpectedly, the final result of the development was The destruction of the "Capital Police" special fleet! Therefore, the world is like this, a momentary gain does not mean an eternal victory! In addition, under the drastic changes of the times, no matter how vigorously any individual or organization makes a counter-attack or ingenious flank attack, it is also invincible to the overwhelming trend of changing its own status and destiny. Instead of fighting in vain, it is better to change according to the situation, so that the body and spirit are not scattered, in order to keep the blood flowing.
January 27, 2007
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