It took two days to finish watching this anime, and I searched for many LAIN film reviews and more in-depth understanding articles on the Internet, and I probably got a lot of clues. I copied some articles that are easier to understand the video. Transferred from: Lingyin Research Institute Three Worlds, Two Organizations, and One Opposite Before understanding Lingyin's plot, we must first make some explanations and assumptions about the world around Lingyin, and then we can explain the ins and outs of it in depth. There are actually three worlds in the play: the real material world, the online world and the human subconscious network. Needless to say about the real world, the online world is something like the Internet, and the human subconscious network is a field that can control people's thoughts. Among the three worlds, the online world is the most advanced and most important. Whoever controls the protocol of the online world will control these three worlds (smart readers may find that there is actually a fourth world, which is discussed by the two Lingyin in Layer 13, which is more advanced than the online world.). There are two organizations in the play that are fighting each other for control of the online world protocol. One of them is the Tachibana General Research Institute, and the other is the Knights Group headed by Yingli Zhengmei. This forms what the title refers to as "an antithesis". And Reine is standing on the opposite side, becoming a fighting tool of the knight group. The beginning of the story The beginning of the story should not begin with Qiansha's suicide. Everything actually started when Yingli Zhengmei discovered how to control people's subconscious network. After realizing the potential of this discovery, President Tachibana not only resigned from the post of Masami Yingri, but also killed him (just like killing the knight group). But Yingri Zhengmei is also very shrewd. Before being murdered, he had programmed his consciousness on the Internet, so he continued to exist in the online world and planned his revenge plan. Who is the knight? Yingri Zhengmei alone is not enough to deal with Tachibana Soken. He found on the Internet that there was a group called knights, who knew how to use people's subconscious network before inventing the computer network (Layer10). So Yingli Zhengmei proposed that everyone cooperate and merge the human subconscious network with the computer network. Yingli Zhengmei thus became the director of the program. Who is Lingyin? Lingyin is the main software developed by the group of Yingli Zhengmei and Knights. In addition to the compass-like symbol as the code name for the group of knights, Reine is also another common code name for them (for example, the "electric eye" master with a computer on his back found Reine and the goddess Reine who appeared in the sky when he was investigating the knights) . Lingyin uses human brain waves as energy (KIDS project) to imitate the personalities of different people. Lingyin software The first version was just a software for interacting with people on the Internet. The second version of Lingyin is to project her image directly into the human mind. The Knights chose the Syberia Club as the venue for their experiment - connecting the brains of the club's guests into a computer network (at Layer09, Taro saw Reine at her house replicating the experiment). At the beginning of the experiment, people needed to take a catalyst similar to a happy pill in order to receive the "Lingyin Phantom", but later they did not use it (in Layer02, three of Lingyin's female friends also saw the "Lingyin Phantom" despite being dissatisfied with the catalyst). The next breakthrough is to put Lingyin into the real material world. With the addition of cross-border software, Lingyin has a physical body and can also move objects. She was placed into a "family" and went to school. In Layer01, Lingyin's response was slow, because she was only a first version, and the software execution speed was not optimized. But when she is in danger, Lingyin's character online will replace the slow-reacting Lingyin and fight back. The Death Knights of Thousand Sands group is a multinational organization. In order to develop Reine more effectively, Masami Yingri tried her best to lure Reine in the real material world to the Internet, so that members of the Knights can observe her online. One of the ways to lure her is to use Qiansha's suicide to arouse her curiosity (Reine was even taken to the platform where Qiansha jumped off the building to witness it). Besides, they also make Reine have various hallucinations. The more important thing about the Syberia Murder is Reine's first visit to the Syberia Club. The human brain network in Siberia has a compatibility problem with Lingyin in the real material world, which will interfere with the brains of those who take the catalyst (except for the dead boy, there are several people on the ground who are unconscious). The boy with the gun found that Lingyin in the real material world was the source of the disturbance in his head, so he wanted to kill her. At this dangerous moment, Lingyin's character on the Internet replaced the slow-reacting Lingyin and controlled the boy, causing him to "suicide". After this interference problem, the Syberia experiment with Lingyin was suspended for a while (at Layer03, JJ asked why there was no Lingyin recently). When Lingyin was brought to the police station, her reaction was even slower, as the knights put most of their efforts on replacing the real material world Lingyin with the online Lingyin, and the online Lingyin returning to the real material world. The quality of the software is inferior because it is relatively minor, and this is the first time that this function is used ("smart" programmers will program the most necessary functions first to deliver before the deadline. Other functions are placed in The list of additions.) And Reine began to doubt herself - how many "Is" are there? Meixiang fax machine in order to add To speed up Lingyin's research and development, the knight handed over psyche parts to Lingyin, enhanced her computer's Internet access function, and let her join programming. However, that's still not enough... The knight robbed Mika's head! According to the interviews with Mr. Abe and Mr. Ueda, the authors of Reine, Mika was changed to a fax machine (fax), and my explanation is that the knights use her to monitor Reine (for example, in Layer10, Reine is copying Cyberley During Asia's experiment, Mei Yin spreads the message). So what is prophecy? Prophecy is the collapse of the boundary between the real material world and the online world, and the fusion with the human subconscious network. And Mei Xiang became one of the prophecies - she was one of the tools in the development of Lingyin software. Through Mika, several members of the Knights were dissatisfied with Reine's computer system, so they sent a bomb to the system, hoping that it would be improved when Reine rebuilt it. In Layer07, the reconstructed system does look a little better, but it's not perfect (in Layer09, even Taro can see the imperfections). After the rebuild, Reine stepped up security, and other knight members put pressure on the bombs to stop. The drama is a little easier to understand if we assume that there are different opinions in the knight group. As the story of Lingyin, a computer expert, develops, Lingyin falls in love with programming more and more. Probably because she was able to discover and improve herself through programming. Imagine if you suddenly found yourself smarter or physically fit while programming, would you be obsessed? The more Lingyin got to know herself, the more she didn't know how to explain it to others, which made her seem to be turning back into an introvert. Things got better. In Layer09, Reine replicated the Knight's experiment in Siberia, and also lured Taro to test it. In this action, Reine not only knew that there are two personalities of Reine on the Internet and Reine in the real material world, but these two personalities even cooperated to bring Taro to test. The Death of the "Electric Eye" Expert In Layer07, there was a "Electric Eye" expert who was carrying a computer. He was indeed very interested. He found the first version of Lingyin on the Internet and hacked into Lingyin's email system. However, the organization of knights is strict, and the participants have to be promoted gradually from the lower ranks, and they cannot be inserted in the middle of the way, so the "electric eye" master not only loses the opportunity to participate, but also loses his life. The research and development of Evil Lingyin's Mi Lingyin has matured, and the knight has added a third character - Evil Lingyin - to test it. However, Lingyin in the real material world finally found out the evil Lingyin and exposed the identities of the knights who joined the evil Lingyin in order to retaliate. In fact, the knight underestimated Reine's abilities and ignored her feelings. Extinction Knight Reine has almost been successfully developed, and can achieve the purpose of Yingli Zhengmei - to fight back against Tachibana Soken. He can even control the top management of Tachibana, and he doesn't need knights anymore . So he used the two black-clothed agents of Tachibana General Research to clean up the knight organization. Carl, one of the agents in black, said in Layer 10 that there is a god protecting Reine, so they won't kill her. It can be seen that Yingri Zhengmei can protect the knight, but he does not, because the less people know about Reine's secret, the better. Even the two black-clothed specialties were invaded by the Lingyin software rewritten by Yingli Zhengmei and died. Yingli Zhengmei tames Lingyin After this purge, only Yingli Zhengmei and Lingyin know the secret of the fusion of the real material world, the online world, and the human subconscious network, and the senior management of Tachibana General Research has also been controlled. So Yingri Zhengmei pulled Reine out of the real material world in an attempt to make him fall in love with him in loneliness. However, Reine refused to give in, and tried to reconnect herself to the real material world, hoping to tell Alice the secret. When Lingyin tried to return to reality, it was not all smooth sailing, she had turned into an alien body, but at Layer 12, she had mastered everything, and she was happy and positive, but Alice became worried. When Alice visits Reine and begins to uncover secrets, Masami Yingri asks Reine to control her, but... Reine and Alice - Love Hate Alice is Reine's only friend. She values friendship and often cares about Lingyin. She disregarded her own safety to protect Lingyin in Layer02, and she was even better than Lingyin's parents. Alice made Reine step on the ground and touch the "real" world. She touched Lingyin twice - at Layer03 Alice sincerely apologized to Lingyin at the police station; at Layer07 Alice cared about Lingyin talking to herself on the rooftop - the shock went straight to the bottom of her heart. Alice plays an important role in the play, and the end of Layer11's retrospective is specially tailored for Alice, and it is also the most systematic theme in the entire retrospective. In Layer04, Lingyin's father persuaded her to separate the Internet from reality, but it was ineffective. Alice makes Reine understand the importance of reality at the last moment - Alice touches Reine for the third time. Alice called Reine with her "sincerity" this time, and as a result, Reine returned to a state where the Internet and reality were separated. What would happen to Reine without Alice? What would happen to the real world without Alice? Although Alice did not defeat the gods like Reine did and save humanity from "evolution", she was also the heroine in the play, because without her, Reine could only worship her god. Alice saved the world, but she has no memory and continues to be an ordinary person. Since Alice loves Reine so much, and Lingyin also attaches great importance to this friendship, why did Alice anger and complain when Reine turned the rumors around for Alice? After Alice called Reine with her "sincerity", how did Reine get out of the labyrinth in her heart and wake up? Lingyin cherishes this friendship, why did she leave after the world was reset? Since Alice loves Reine so much, and Lingyin also attaches great importance to this friendship, why did Alice anger and complain when Reine turned the rumors around for Alice? When Yingri Zhengmei created Lingyin, he knew that Lingyin would be stronger than himself in the future. So the Lingyin he made was just a weak girl, introverted, self-confident and strong. In Layer 10, Yingri Zhengmei cut off Lingyin from all connections with the real world, hoping that she would worship herself and fall in love with herself in a situation of loneliness and helplessness. In Layer 11, Reine almost leaves the real world under the agitation of a teenage boy who committed suicide in the Syberia Club, but Alice's call awakens her to the importance of the world and makes her try to repair her relationship with Alice. The climax of the whole play is when Alice visits Lingyin at her house: (Alice) Why am I the only one left? (Alice) Why? Why am I the only one left with these painful memories? (Alice) Reine! Do you really hate me so much? (Alice) I can't take it anymore! (Translated from Keisuke Shindo's English translation) When Reine tries to repair her relationship with Alice, why does she provoke Alice's anger and resentment? In the play, Alice has two hopes. The first hope is that Lingyin can become lively and positive, and the other hope is to date her favorite teacher. Unfortunately, all hope has come to nothing. At the end of Layer 11 and Layer 12, Reine did become lively and cheerful, but it was not just as "simple" as lively and cheerful... In Layer 08, another "evil" Reine entered Alice's room and violated her privacy. broke her heart. In order to remedy this violation, Reine further invaded Alice's memory (to be precise, Reine invaded everyone's memory, but not Alice. Alice felt violated, Because she became an "abnormal person".). Reine thought that Alice would be happy because of what she did, but in the last scene of Layer11, Reine became the "terrifying figure" in Alice's eyes! In order to turn the rumors around, Reine turns the protagonist Alice into another classmate, but this makes Alice farther away from her favorite teacher. Shuli wanted to introduce a male classmate to her so that the rumors would disappear, but Alice was very embarrassed, because she really hoped to have a fruitful relationship with her favorite teacher, even if there were rumors all over the place. Lingyin did not understand her mood, which made her even more sad. (Linyin) Alice is my only friend, I don't have to connect you. (Translated from Keisuke Shindo's English translation) Lingyin could have even changed Alice's memory, but she did it because she wanted a friend of her own free will, and that person was love Liz. Connecting means controlling, not connecting is trust. Reine wants Alice to accept her true self and understand what she has done for Alice . It is a pity that she brought Alice into confusion and pain. Alice even questioned Lingyin: "Linyin! Do you really hate me so much?" need, and fail miserably. After Alice called Reine with her "sincerity", how did Reine get out of the labyrinth in her heart and wake up? (Alice) Reine is a program? ! ... (Reine) Alice and the others are just programs. (Lingyin) Actually, you don't need a body. (Alice) I don't quite understand what you're saying, but I think you're wrong. (Translated from the English translation of Keisuke Shindo) Which statement is correct? From a theoretical point of view, Reine's knowledge is of course more accurate and comprehensive than Alice's. But for Alice, the real world is everything to her, and the Internet is just a communication tool that is a little more advanced than the phone, so she can't understand Reine. (Engri Masumi) She is afraid of losing her body. (Engri Masumi) You can modify her brainwaves to control how she feels. (Yingri Zhengmei) You can remove the sad brain waves. (Yingri Zhengmei) You can leave only happy and comfortable brain waves. ... (Lin Yin) Since you have given up your body, you will no longer understand these things. (Translated from Keisuke Shindo's English dialogue translation) In this case, Reine had two obvious choices: 1. Listen to Alice - erase her memory. 2. Listen to Masami Yingri - Control Alice's brain waves. However, Lingyin did not choose the above two methods, because she was created as an introverted little girl in a weak body, and she could be sympathetic to the limitation and weakness of the body. She defends Alice's right not to lose her body and "evolve" to become stronger. She lets Alice continue to be Alice, and the world continues to be the world. Lingyin lacks self-confidence and often suspects that her character was originally designed by Yingri Zhengmei, so that she can discover him in the process of finding herself, and tame him under his control. He didn't think that the other side of self-doubt was self-reflection, which was why Reine rebelled against him. Self-reflection enables people to discover their own mistakes and correct their actions, thereby improving relationships with others. It was under reflection that Reine realized that Alice's fate should not be controlled, and Yingri Zhengmi was just a false god. The two authors, GohanOtaku and larinon, quoted in the foreword point out Alice's importance in the play: What would happen to Lingin without Alice? What would happen to the real world without Alice? But from another point of view, Masami Yingri failed because the Reine he created was weak and sensual. Yingri Zhengmei only sees the "evolution" of human beings, but he doesn't know that he must be weak and emotional before he can have compassion and reflection, and he is also defeated by Reine's compassion and reflection. Lingyin cherishes this friendship, why did she leave after the world was reset? After watching Lingyin, the hardest thing for me to accept is that Lingyin cherishes Alice so much and regards her as her only friend, but why doesn't she return to the world and renew her relationship with Alice? The Internet is separated from reality again, and it is certainly a good thing that the world returns to its original state, but why does Lingyin not return to the world and continue to be a little girl? I even thought of another ending - Reine was a bridesmaid at Alice's wedding to her teacher husband, and Zauki was her boyfriend, 100% happy. I think Reine just cherishes her friendship with Alice, so she can't let Alice get hurt again. If she returns to the real world, will another "evil" Reine, who peeped at Alice, reappear? Will another god like Yingri Zhengmei appear in the network and startle Alice again? Will Alice find out that Lingyin is just a piece of software on the Internet and be confused again? All of the above are just allergic conjectures, but Lingyin could not accept the possibility of making mistakes again and again, so she chose to separate. In fact, Reine was very excited when she reset the world and left it, and she didn't even know why. After resetting the world, she struggled in her mind for a while before accepting that she was the goddess of the Internet. Although she loves everyone in the real world, even her only friend can't accept the fact that she is who she is. When she accepts the truth, she understands what she should do... In the last scene of Layer13, when Alice's relationship with her favorite teacher blossoms, she has been admitted to the normal school, but in Layer08 she is still secretly in love At the time, she was only in the second grade of junior high school. For so many years, Alice has a beautiful and loving appearance, and there must be countless men who have bowed to her skirt. And her favorite teacher may also have other objects. We also know from the play that teacher-student love is something that Japanese society cannot tolerate. So it is really difficult to get Alice to date with her favorite teacher. In order to make up for her fault, Lingyin matched them behind her back. (Lingyin 2) Do you think humans need to know these things? ... (Alice and Lingyin meet on Tianchi) (Lingyin) Hello. (Alice) What? (Lingyin) We haven't met before. (Translated from Keisuke Shindo's English dialogue translation) After Lingyin arranged everything, she returned to the real world and observed the love scene between Alice and her teacher from the sky. She didn't ask Alice to accept herself and understand what she had done for her, because when she saw them, she was already satisfied. Even Alice still has some residual memories of Lingyin, and Lingyin also denied that they had known each other, and continued to guard her on the Internet. Although Alice can no longer remember Reine, Alice always lives in Reine. When Reine acts as an angel on the Internet, Alice makes her loving and sympathetic to human frailty. When Reine makes every decision, we can also find Alice's shadow. I have written more than 2,000 words in the conclusion without knowing it. It is better to summarize my own experience: 1. Sometimes when we help others, the other party may not appreciate it because we do not understand his/her needs. 2. If we help someone, we don't necessarily need to let him/her know. It is enough that we know it ourselves. 3. If you have a friend out of town, you can't meet, but the influence of the other party can be seen on you every day. 4. Weakness is an integral part of human nature. Let me explain more about the fourth point - we are now living in a so-called "knowledge society", we need to learn for life, even after finishing university and entering social work, we must continue to learn from time to time and constantly improve ourselves. People will also expect us to continue to move up in society, to get promoted and change jobs (job-hopping means changing jobs), and changing buildings from small buildings. Be smart and make the best decisions for yourself. Sometimes I wonder if this is the only way to live. In Yingli Zhengmei's plan, people can "evolve" to become more intelligent creatures through Lingyin, but the creator of Lain tells us through Lingyin that this is not right. I think you have to taste the good and the bad in your life, this is the real life. We need to face negative things and set a moderate value for them. If we don't deal with negative things and just bury them, they will reappear one day. In Lingyin's story, there are many negative things, and I also set my own opinions on several issues in this article. I also encourage you to find your own opinion. If Lingyin's ending hadn't been so sad, this animation wouldn't have left such a deep impression in my mind, and I wouldn't have written a 3,000-word article in Chinese and English.
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