This is the process of a girl who has no self to find herself. She understands the meaning of love, and it is also a process of allowing herself to understand people's hearts, understand human nature, and build herself. The girl had been dazedly accepting orders from her superiors (Hawkins, Gilbert his brother and Gilbert) to act. She never thought about how she should live, what the meaning of life is for. Cruel war and military life are inherently depersonalized. So when the girl dashed to the front line with blank but firm eyes, Gilbert was in pain in her heart. He hates his incompetence and needs the protection of a girl as a meat shield. He was helpless. After all, he was fighting, and he could die at any time, so he couldn't make a promise to the girl. It was obvious from the quarrel on the eve of the battle that he tried to awaken the girl's self-awareness, and tried to make her understand the various feelings that a human being should have. Anger when blamed, pain when abandoned. But the girl obviously couldn't understand Gilbert's painstaking efforts in that big environment. Finally, he said helplessly, let's talk about it after the battle is over.
Gilbert said to the girl before he died: I hope you can live freely because I love you. I think Gilbert is really a very gentle person. He sincerely believes that love is built on the basis of equality between the two parties, and it is based on the girl's understanding of feelings, understanding of people's hearts, and the experience of being a human being, not a prop, and gradually gaining self-awareness. He didn't want to use orders to tie up the girl's life, and he didn't want to use orders to gain the girl's person and heart. So he asked loudly if the girl was as emotional as him. In the end, he chose to sacrifice to save the girl, or, after the war, for the girl to take a step towards self-growth, instead of relying on his command to live as a corpse, he chose to leave. In my opinion, both are very great. .
In this world, I have seen too many uncles with rich life experience, who use spiritual shackles and so-called love to tie the people and emotions of young girls who are not deep in the world. They only hope that these girls will stay by their side forever, be a canary who doesn't know the fireworks of the world, always look at themselves with longing eyes, and always live by their own orders. This is not love, this is possessiveness. In Gilbert's view, there is no love without equal personalities. That's why, after the girl had been by his side for so many years, he never really told the girl that he loved her, and only at the time of life and death, he hoped that her first thing would be to "live freely". This freedom includes the girl's ability to form self-awareness, to think for herself, to experience others, and to live without being constrained by anyone's spirit.
When the girl finally wrote in the letter, "I can finally feel the meaning of some love", in the girl's tears, Gilbert smiled with relief and turned away. Because he knows that his own existence is the bondage of the girl. So when the girl finally broke through the spiritual shackles, he turned around and left with great relief. Because his historical mission has been completed.
The magic adaptation actually wants to incorporate many elements, such as discussing the destruction of the war on ordinary people, the destruction of soldiers, and the destruction of relatives on both sides of the enemy; various daily elements, such as the damage to self-esteem after a confession is rejected, and the relief of life and death And acceptance, the paradox in human nature between purpose and behavior (yes, Tsundere said it was you). But obviously, there are too many elements to be incorporated, and the screenwriter's control can only be said to be passable. However, the delicate portrayal of the character's emotional drama, I personally feel that it is relatively successful.
Also, the plot of the train line, if it's just to forcibly contact Gilbert's brother and his mother, it's really unnecessary. . . . Because the girl really moved on at the end of the ninth chapter, it meant forcibly whipping the corpse. . .
Let me explain again what it meant when the teenage girl tearfully asked Hawkins if she could survive at the end of episode 9. It's like this. If you experience something in your life that negatively affects what you believe in, or your basic self-worth that you have never doubted, people will have the feeling, "Ah, what I believed, what I depended on, was overthrown. I Why do you live?" doubts. The feeling is particularly familiar since I go through such a baptism (mentally intense stimulation) every few years. The girl felt, "Ah, Gilbert, who has been giving me orders all the time, is dead and gone, and my hands are stained with the blood of innocents on the battlefield. Am I qualified to live like this? In fact, Hawkins burst into tears when he heard it. Because he dreamed back in the middle of the night, he would ask himself countless times, am I, who survived on the cannon fodder of my teammates, qualified to survive? The answer to this question, Rurouni Kenshin has been discussed many years ago (another exposed age series...)
In the end, although this work is not as good as the big brothers, it is also a very good work. I was most moved by Gilbert. If I can meet such a good person in my life, I am afraid I don’t have to take so many detours and experience so much pain.
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