fall, fall

Christa 2022-03-18 08:01:01

One afternoon in the second grade of elementary school, a person was watching TV at home and tuned to a program dedicated to theater animations. More than half of the animation that was shown that day has been completed. I remember the eerie and dark tone. A woman with empty eyes wrote the same word over and over on the wall. She kept mumbling, Kenichi, Kenichi. I don't know why, but I was immediately attracted by this inexplicable sentiment. It was different from all the cartoons I watched at the time, there were no innocent and lively beautiful girls, no bright tones, but the extremely empty eyes of the woman on the TV dragged me into the abyss, and I didn't even know it happened. What's up. At that time, I was only 8 years old, and I felt an inexplicable sadness.

Because of the limited time of the show and various advertisements, all the theater animations it put on were cut. Then jumped to the blond with the hollow eyes, her face was completely destroyed, staring at the mutilated eye, standing alone on a high place. To be honest, when I was young, I was really scared to death when I saw that scene. I have never seen something so terrifying in an animation. She was bare-legged, the breeze caressed her blond hair and mutilated coat, and then fell from the heights, staring blankly with her big, empty eyes.

I remember the ruins all around me, but for some reason I felt a weird beauty, and of course it scared me a lot. By the way, I still remember a man, chasing after her, holding her broken mechanical hand. Of course, I still remember a pair of shoes at the end.

Although I am young, but I know she died, I still feel very sad, even feel. . . . There is an indescribable feeling. At that time, I probably didn't know what depression was. But the dreamy, dark tone of this animation, and its run-down, psychedelic aesthetic appealed to me. The subtitle in the lower right corner of the TV marked the title of the film - "Metropolis". I keep this name silently in my heart, and it lasts for ten years.

The next day I went to school, I also asked the girls in my class if they had seen an animation called "Metropolis". A girl who liked to brag said she had. I asked her where can I find the disc? And then she hummed. I also asked my parents if they could help me find an animation called "Metropolis" next time they go to buy a CD, that one seems a little hard to find. They also uh ah ah ah, but never brought me.

I haven't finished watching this animation before, but I'm really impressed by the ending scenes that I've seen. Many years passed, I went to junior high school, and I started to like to watch movies of this kind of style, dark, rundown, gorgeous, decadent. If the heroine has empty eyes, it must be very attractive to me. The TV animation "Black Contractor" that I liked to watch in the second year of junior high is similar to this one, and it all takes place in the doomsday city at night.

But I never found the "Metropolis" disc, and I didn't know how to download it at the time.

It is absolutely undeniable that this movie had an influence on my taste. I became madly fascinated by Bolton's movies in the second semester of my junior year. It seems to be the same feeling, the dark and damp dilapidated streets, and the dark night that I can never get out of. When I grow up and learn newer knowledge, I will know the "dystopia" in literature, and I will also understand what a movie is, and the metallic taste in music. There are also fantasies about doomsday cities. The more I read and the more I know, the novels, movies, and animations I like have so many similarities with Metropolis. Even now, my favorite sci-fi movies, one is "Blade Runner" and the other is "City of Souls". Of course films like "Alien", "Terminator", "The Matrix" and "Inception" are good to me too, but watching it once is enough and definitely not going to like it any more, but for "Blade Runner" I have a crush on "City of Souls". They all have my favorite elements: a woman with empty eyes but firm will, a futuristic city with a strange dilapidated beauty that will never have sunlight, a decadent metallic taste, the status of human beings is so slim, and even a nice and gentle voice music. Yes, same as Metropolis.

Some time ago, I was watching Uncle Lang's movie (the German director). His most famous movie is the silent film "Metropolis". I suddenly remembered the masterpiece "Metropolis" that I always remembered when I was a child, um, if I remember correctly. I was so excited to find the HD version online and drag it down to see it. When I saw the ending, I really couldn't hold back my mood, it was exactly as I remembered it! ! ! It's just that the hero and heroine seem younger than I remembered. Maybe it's because I've grown up, I thought they were mature when I was 8, and now I think they're just two kids. But so what? It's the metallic taste I remember, it hasn't changed at all.

The moment she fell, I suddenly felt like I was falling into an unknown world like her. She died and I don't know where I am, maybe in a dream. I'm so obsessed with this feeling that I can't help myself.

I can't stop loving you.

Please remember, there'll never be good-bye.

I'll stay in it. In fact, for so many years, this feeling, this infatuation, has not changed.

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  • Peter 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    #JapaneseAnimationMasterExhibitionIGCParagon Japanese sci-fi animation is really advanced, the soundtrack is extremely elegant, I like it very much, I want to brush it again.

  • Antonio 2022-03-24 09:03:51

    Few traces of the original work remain in the film, and Otomo's destructionism basically dominates. In a highly developed city, humans and robots coexist, accompanied by intoxicating jazz music, and a fire ignites the horn of "destruction". Like Tokyo in Akira, the skyscraper has become a symbol: the future of human beings and robots, the fate of technology and industry, all of which seem to be ended only by destruction - to be reborn, you must first be destroyed.

Metropolis quotes

  • Tima: I am who?

  • Rock: Really? So, what are you then? A human?