Under the thick night, incendiary bombs streaked like meteors, burning the streets of commuting in the past, and people screamed in anger to express their desire for the so-called "freedom".
This is the opening scene of the Japanese movie "Wolf".
The chaotic scenes like the end of the world seem to echo every hidden history, but this is an overhead plot.
Armed police and extremist resistance groups are deadlocked on the streets, and in places where street lights and incendiary bombs can't shine, the girl called "Little Red Riding Hood" shuttles through the dark alleys, silently and quickly transporting small children to the extremists. bag.
What is in the bag is not bread and milk, but a powerful bomb.
As the first "schoolbag bomb" was thrown by the extremists, the anger of the armed police was completely ignited, and the two sides fell into a melee in an instant, or the rabble was defeated in one blow.
At the same time, the long-awaited capital police special team also secretly dispatched to kill the fleeing extremists in the quiet and dirty sewer system.
It was a massacre without any suspense, but the cold-blooded soldier in MG42 armor stopped the bullet in front of the terrified "Little Red Riding Hood".
The next second, "Little Red Riding Hood" pulled off the bomb fuse and shattered in front of him.
Numb face and human alienation
Although "Wolf" is an animation, it has a very serious film quality.
There is no BGM for most of the film, and the protagonist has very few lines. Even almost all the male characters in the film have similar numb faces, which are inevitably boring at first glance.
But it is this boredom that allows the film's depression to burst into the power of despair at the end.
The male protagonist, Fu, is a burly fighter of the special aircraft team. Under his sharp eyebrows, he has eyes with no emotion at all. As the best fighter, he is self-disciplined and strong, and he will achieve his mission.
But why did he hesitate in the face of a terrorist with a bomb, just because she was a girl?
The entire content of the film revolves around Fu's behavior, which extends to the plots of infighting in the police system, spies and counterintelligence, and finally falls back to Fu's choice.
Obviously, despite his always indifferent face, there is still a simple human compassion in Vu's heart.
Back to that scene, before "Little Red Riding Hood" set off the bomb, his low voice came from behind the skeleton-like mask:
"Don't be stupid."
He's not a bad fighter, but he doesn't think the girl in front of him has anything to do with those crazy extremists.
He may just think that the girl has been bewitched and is just a poor tool of the extremist organization.
However, as a colleague said to him: "You can't do this with a lot of emotion", even if it's just the most instinctive emotion of a human being, it's superfluous.
Is he not a tool man of the power machine?
Fu is struggling. He feels depressed about his dereliction of duty and feels guilty about the girl's death. Two emotions collide in him, causing him to keep having that nightmare:
In the dark sewers, I was accompanied by a pack of wolves, watching the wolves pounce on the girl, tearing her flesh to pieces, and I couldn't do anything.
There is an intriguing line in the film: "Once you become a beast, you can never go back."
Fu's state of mind has changed from "having pity", to "according to the plan and implementing the mission", and finally to "cutting off the emotions" with his own hands, completing the alienation of human beings and becoming a machine of killing and struggle.
By contrast, all of the other men in the film have become part of an overall force, they have long ceased to exist as separate persons.
Therefore, they will do anything to achieve their goals, and emotions are just chips that can be used.
It's all sad and hopeless, especially when you see that the best person has to be forcibly removed from the so-called "soft underbelly" by the power machine.
Personal sorrows and joys seem so small.
Little Red Riding Hood's story
In the movie, a classic story "Little Red Riding Hood" is interspersed, but it is not the same as the well-known version.
In this version, the hunter does not appear, and both Little Red Riding Hood and his mother end up in the wolf's mouth.
And in the movie's narration, there is this passage:
Little Red Riding Hood came to her mother's house, and at this time her mother had been killed by the big wild wolf, Little Red Riding Hood said:
"Mom, I'm hungry."
The big wild wolf was wearing his mother's clothes and said on the bed, "There is meat in the cupboard, you can eat it."
Little Red Riding Hood ate the meat, and a cat called on the cabinet:
"Little Red Riding Hood, you are eating your mother's meat!"
Little Red Riding Hood asked the big wolf, "Mom, there's a cat on the cabinet saying that I'm eating your meat."
"Then of course it's lying to you, use wooden shoes to drive it away."
The girl who ate meat felt thirsty:
"Mom, I'm thirsty."
"Go and drink the wine in the pot."
A bird flew over, stopped on the chimney and said:
"You are drinking your mother's blood, you are drinking your mother's blood!"
"Mom, a bird on the chimney said I was drinking your blood."
"You just use your hood to chase that bird away."
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In the reality of the movie, Little Red Riding Hood is the logistics force of the extreme resistance organization, made up of young girls who are stubborn and simple.
Just like Little Red Riding Hood who was tricked into swallowing her mother's flesh and blood, they couldn't judge whether the freedom and sublime pursued by the so-called resistance organization was a fabricated lie.
And did the bombs they personally deliver really explode for truth and hope? Or blow up innocent people?
They don't even know it.
But the wolf was real, and in the end it swallowed Little Red Riding Hood, along with the crimes she committed out of ignorance.
The wolf in the movie is V, and despite his struggles, he finally made a choice.
This is his fate as a soldier of the special aircraft team, and it is also the inevitable result of the political game.
Whether it is for Fu or the girls in Little Red Riding Hood, this is a life that cannot be chosen.
Once you become a beast, there is no turning back.
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