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[Lens text] Pseudo-analysis-Several bloody cases caused by delusions in the
summer night, the flow of stickiness in the stuffy air With the unsmooth conspiracy, the whole city seems to be distorted. It's been an eventful summer, I think. When the optical drive in my broken machine roared in the thunderstorm in the middle of the night, "Bang!" A cold and crisp voice shocked my eardrums. "Boy Boy" - On the screen, the wretched uncle said these four words tremblingly, I think, I am afraid that I will be involved in a long-planned bloody case. Hey, a man with a crazy genius pulled me into a world of delusions and started an unusual journey in pursuit of blood and tears.
The scene of the crime - [Story, in the name of a fable! 】
In one sentence, this seemingly complex story with many characters and intricate relationships is: a little girl told people that the wolf was coming, everyone believed it, and then the wolf really came and ate all the food. people. Of course, we can't think that "Delusional Agent" is just an ordinary didactic film because Jin Min borrowed the core of the old fable "The Wolf is Coming". The technique of putting new wine in old bottles is a universal magic weapon at all times. Even if the gorgeous and fashionable wine bottle is boiled water, we should be grateful to Dade to drink it, not to mention that it is not filled with boiled water but aged wine?
As a famous designer, Tsukiko Tsukushi not only enjoys the benefits of overnight fame, but also faces greater pressure. The deadline is approaching every day, her colleagues are jealous and slander, the boss is persistently pressing her, and the loneliness of living alone makes her Almost on the verge of collapse... An obscure tabloid reporter, mediocre intellect, but ambitious, good at franchise, unscrupulous, but the god of poverty and doom especially loves him, chased by various debts, difficult interviewer, He only felt that his steel-like nerves could no longer bear the huge pressure...
Athlete, smart, cheerful, handsome, and a primary school student with a perfect world was accused of being a suspect and became a ruined Boneless, terrified...
The beautiful tutor can't contain his inner desires. Even if his personality is split to the point where it cannot be solved by drugs and treatment, he does not dare to face up to his true desires...
Two criminal policemen who claim to be justice and bravery, although one firmly believes in what he is adhering to. Righteous, but helpless in the face of the evils of life, the other escaped into the depths of his heart like the victims he pursued under the double pressure of life and career...
Everyone, everyone, was The original lie was infected, like the worst virus, and once it was released, it swept through everything in a destructive posture. The wolves summoned by lies feed on cowardice and evasion, use attack and slander as a channel to run into the world, and attack people with ghosts in the name of rescue.
When you saw the first two episodes of this film, you thought it was a middle-aged Ogisang version of Conan's reasoning and suspense film; when you saw the middle, you would think it was a film about the dark issues of modern society, such as "EVA" Ordinary pseudo-humanistic cartoons, and only when you see the last scene, the white-haired patrolman looks back for a moment, you will understand that in fact it is nothing, maybe, everything is looking directly at a person's uncontrollable delusion like a wild horse .
It would be fine if this was a completely illusory world, but it was so absurd and real, so hard, as if when you raised your eyes, when you woke up from that huge delusion, you found that the so-called real world around you was completely different from it. Not bad. The wolf is actually not scary. What is scary are those wolves in sheep's clothing who always surround us.
Bleeding and drifting - [Evil! Not just delusional]
This is an evil animation. It gives hardly any hope and light. Wandering between the absurd and the real, it creates a dizzying feeling like the real and the fantasy in Dali's works, and stimulates the sensory world like blood. This is the shock left to us by the sightings. The baseball boy grows up because of people's evil thoughts and imaginations. Only in the face of people who have gaps in their hearts can they take advantage of it. But people are more evil than delusional. In the final analysis, any evil is just the flower of evil that grows out of the evil heart.
Yuichi was controlled by jealousy and strong delusions of being murdered, and even let the baseball boy attack Niu Shan, who cared about him and trusted him; when the upright-looking
Hikawa couldn't satisfy the perverted and inflated feelings of love in his heart, he was actually there. When she entered the empty door, she stretched her claws at the girl of the same age as her daughter;
and the weak girl did not even have the courage to speak up when her father peeped at her, and the weak courage made her unable to speak when she saw her grandmother drowning.
In order to satisfy the heroic feelings in his heart, Fox Zuka imitated the behavior of the baseball boy, and his self-righteous sense of justice covered up the sins of the fragile heart. It's a pity that he will still be defeated by the police's questioning, he will still be remorseful, and fear will swallow his heart, so his fear finally calls out the real baseball boy.
The confinement manager hated the confinement that could not bring him more profit and work better, and at the same time held the confinement in a positive and negative way.
Eager to integrate into the community, to be able to join the circle of long-tongued women, and not allow herself to be lonely again, Mrs. Kabara [the writer's wife] clumsily caters to the long-tongued women's preferences and fabricates unsophisticated lies. Despised, so much so that when she saw her husband collapsed in a pool of blood, her surprised and deformed face made people feel horrified.
The incompetent, but arrogant and proud novice of anime has obviously collapsed his self-esteem, cursing everyone who bullies him, but pretending to be strong on the surface, proving that his strength still has a foothold in this society.
Even the upright and full of morality and responsibility will feel insecure in the face of the threat of death and disease. He just wants to hide in his own world, get rid of his responsibilities, get rid of his wife who has already overwhelmed him, and return to that place. He is still full of ability, full of vitality, in a world with love, trust, and strength.
Their minds, consciously and unconsciously, betrayed to the devil, just for an overnight peace, and the evil spreads in the calm.
In fact, they are all poor and insecure. No matter what status they are in, what environment they are in, what kind of identity and background they have, they are like screws in the huge machine that runs wildly in society, turning involuntarily, without self and without peace. And in the old society in the memory of Zhushou, there may be no mobile phones, no big houses, no high-rise buildings, no trams, no taxis, but there are humane hawkers, simple residents, and a slow and comfortable life. , In that era of material scarcity, people do have a rich and fulfilling sense of security. Is this the helplessness of society in the post-industrial era or the sorrow that human beings cannot adjust themselves?
The murder weapon - [Intricate, the other side of the coin]
Tai Ryoichi and Ushiyama are classmates, Choye Harumi is Yuichi's tutor, Hirukawa Masami is a regular customer of Harumi's aid girl, and she is also a serious pedophile who does not hesitate to peep. He is also an old acquaintance who investigates the perversion of his daughter, the police officer Zhushou, and Zhushou's wife, because she is worried that she will become a burden to her husband, will take a risk to summon the baseball boy; …
If you are a first-time viewer of this film, you will definitely be confused. Although the twisted relationship between the characters is not as good as "ffs", you can only understand it by drawing a chronology, but it is enough to make people dizzy. Dazzling. If it is a non-epic work, too many characters will weaken the development of the protagonist, and it is easy to pull the theme away, but if there are not enough characters, it is easy to make people feel boring. And these characters were cleverly formed into small circles around their different centers by Jin Min, and the center of each small circle was built around the big center of baseball boy. As if unfolding a long and delicate ukiyo-e of all living beings in a modern city, several small stories interspersed in it can be independent and keep in touch with the main line.
This spring's Oscar winner, "Crash," used a similar approach. All seemingly unrelated incidents can always find the slightest bond with other people or things behind them. There is no effect without cause, and there is no cause without effect. The chapters about the suicide trio, the useless little brother, and the long-talking woman in the family seem to be out of the main line, but it is also because of them that the whole picture of the story is depicted more full, colorful, Added a little bit of color to the ink-splattered scroll.
Especially the episodes of the suicide trio, I personally think it is very good! The behavior of these people is like the woman in "Rhapsody in the Black Shop" who deliberately wants to commit suicide. Serious things are completely reduced to funny. Hidden behind the nonsensical and absurd performance is a hidden feeling that makes people unable to relax. But when the curtain finally came to an end, the three saw themselves without a shadow under the sun, the long silence followed by a crisp beating sound and a terrified scream, a rapid flash, all illusions were shattered, and the story began again Pull back the original style. Just as the works that test the true skills of cartoonists are their short stories, I personally think that these stories completely highlight Jin Min's superb plot grasp and control.
The mastermind behind the scenes - [weird, continuation of the style]
Since "Millennium Actress" became known to the world, he has become Hayao Miyazaki of Japanese animation in the new era. With him, there is a general box office guarantee. Jin Min's main works in the industry are not many, but each of them runs through Jin Min's unique unruly, ruthless thinking and self-deprecating. This animation somehow reminds me of the same brutality, the same ruthlessness, and the same destruction of the last shred of hope in the classic "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The world finally returned to normal when Yuezi faced her own mistakes, and when Zhushou and Ma Ting represented her father's forgiveness for her mistakes, and we saw that everything that was destroyed was restored to its original state. So our appetite for fast food was cheaply satisfied, what a happy ending! But has the world really changed? Just like in the op of Chapter 1, the human beings who have returned to their original state have no progress at all, indifferent communication, endless deceit and calculation, too fast rhythm, too much desire...
That mysterious calculation in the hospital that runs through all the time The face of the old man when the last picture appeared and the face of the guardian Ma Ting, who had a firm belief in the only one and could clearly understand his thoughts from beginning to end, overlapped. Deep despair is revealed in the unfocused eyes, and the result of the final equation is shattering. After all, is all of this a fact or Ma Ting's fantasy? Is this a facsimile of the real or a whitewash of the unreal? Is it the fear of human beings over their uncontrollable desires, or their disappointment over indifference?
Just like when we saw Smith and Julia resist the dual control of mind and body with physical instincts, we can still breathe a sigh of relief, and we can still think that this depressing and extremely painful story can leave us behind A bright tail. But when Smith was tortured in pain, shouting "Straight Julia, everything is Julia's idea, you go and beat her, beat her hard!" When we saw Smith finally die, the pious Thinking "He really loves Big Brother!", we know that the cruel reality has finally crushed our last fantasy. As long as there is a little space for evil human nature, it will cling to it.
"Delusional Agent" is not "The Godfather of Tokyo". You don't have to undertake the mission of commercial films to cater to the public, you don't have to painstakingly arrange unreasonable coincidences, and you don't have to tell the general history of Japan through a time-travel story like "Millennium Actress" in dozens of minutes. , so that the gorgeous painting style and skillful technique conceal the director's true intention and the telling of the story. Abundant time, abundant money, and sky-high design, I think this is the real release of Jin Min's talent. Not to mention that the time-travel clips of the GAME series in those few episodes are very different from the "Actress" feel, just the weird and gloomy strange mother-in-law makes me very excited. There is also a city in Zhushou's dream, where everyone appears in the form of paper-cuts, and when they jump, they remind people of the famous paper-cut work of "Mobile Police". Perhaps, the works of Jin Min who have taken off the mask are not full of smiles, lovable, and there is no savior or beauty to satisfy the heroism complex or yy complex in the heart, but as long as Jin Min's works are patiently read, you seem to follow suit. With his high-speed brain roaming the sky and the ground, it feels like steaming an authentic Masaki. Although there will be a little bit of exhaustion and a little bit of emptiness after an orgasm, you will definitely be full of praise. unique memories and feelings.
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STAFF
Production: Shiina Hokobayashi Yosuke Sezaki Kobayashi Shin Omura Eiji (WOWOW) Planning: Maruyama Masao Original work: Toshi Ima シリーズ Composition: Kiyomizu Miyazaki, キャラクターデザイン: Yaji Ando Composer: Takeshi Takeyama Otsuki: Shin Hirasawa OPテーマ: "Dream Island Missing Park" EDテーマ: "マロミのテーマ1" Lyrics / Composer / Arranger: Shin Hirasawa Sound Supervisor: Yabun Sanjian Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi Tsuruzaki りか Uta Miyoshi Goto Hideki Hasegawa Toshiji (WOWOW) Produced by プロデューサー: Toda Tomoki アニメーション Produced by: マッドハウス総 Supervised by: Ima Toshi Production: "Delusional Agent" Production Committee CAST Shosan Ma Ting Guanghong: Guan Junyan Kawazu Akio: Inner Sea Xian Er Junior バット: Sakaguchi Daisuke The old man: Huai Liu Er
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