Steam, ruins, doomsday, self-salvation, old jazz music, these labels are obviously the logo of Otomo Keyang, which is also his use of Tezuka Osamu's outfit to sing a play about machines destroying the world. The robot protagonist in the play is superhuman Di Ma, and the other protagonist is what I call the humanoid kid Jianyi.
A superhuman is a more perfect object than human beings, without feelings and concerns, like a monster that jumps out of nihilism and has no moral constraints of its own, and I prefer to talk about humanoid children. The hypothesis of humanoid children is that of thinkers, Writer Yu Shicun's description of a cultural phenomenon in "Animal Farm - Alternative Interpretation" is an image description of intellectuals who are unaware, careless, and narrow-minded. The word 'can be used to describe many heroes/protagonists in Japanese anime, all of them, children's characters, completely unselfish, do not know how to beware of others, a kind of character that has been misinterpreted into blood. So sometimes this kind of human-like character makes the grandparents who have grown up feel bored. Their understanding of animation is mostly 'what children watch' and 'childish', and at this time, let's look at the adult characters in the works of Otomo Keyang, Most of them are mature, stern, and far-sighted, and at the end of the world, those who have grown up, the most direct source of disasters—most adults have spread their hands, helpless, and even collapsed one step earlier than the world.
It can be said that 'human-like children' is a cultural phenomenon in Japanese animation. The Japanese nation has experienced the only nuclear bomb attack in the world, and has also experienced a painful transformation necessary in the process of modernization. Therefore, their description of the doomsday It is more appropriate and urgent. It is gratifying that they have given the answer. In the face of disasters and doomsday, the only self-help is childlike, out of human instinct, those good qualities, innocence, trust and love , I can also understand why Kurosawa ended with an innocent old man in "Dream". I think this is also the only card that human beings can play in the face of the surging tide of modernity.
2012.1.17 Winter vacation night
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