Tribute to a great masterpiece! Steelmaking is a circle, a thick and complete circle, one is all, all is one, and it starts and ends again and again.
People in the process of steel are chasing, losing, growing, reflecting, facing the world in front of them and their own hearts, moving forward with twists and turns, and forging a steel-like heart in the blood and tears of the journey.
Steel-making FA is a microcosm of human history, a condensation of human positive and negative desires, and a reflection on war and human nature, showing the author's broad and deep love for the world.
Kind and full of characters with distinct personalities, deep, rich and thought-provoking dialectical relationships, wonderful stories with ups and downs and complete structure, and animation production with great tension and full of details, jointly draw this immortal classic poem.
In fact, I don’t think there is any need to say more about works of this level of steelmaking FA, because it is difficult to say everything and it is difficult to explain it fully. It is better to experience it yourself. This work is indeed worth watching and scrutinizing again and again. Read carefully. So here I just pick a few more obvious issues to express my personal humble opinion.
Ⅰ. Character aspects. In terms of painting style¹, the honest, friendly and simple painting style seems to reveal a strong local flavor. Look at the character's face, especially the chin, does it resemble the author's self-portrait? So I call it "cow face". Of course, it may also be the unique style of Aunt Niu that makes many people reluctant to make up for this show despite the hype of others. In terms of character building², in short, it is three-dimensional and expressive. Each character has its own independent and complete personality, and all have souls. When these souls are gathered together, they also highlight their richness. The collision of character souls and thoughts is also throughout. Let’s talk about female characters alone³, I think the women in Steel FA have a kind of inner strength, even heroic, and never lose their tenderness. I can say with absolute certainty that the female characters in Steel FA are by far the ones I like, admire and respect the most.
Ⅱ. The Philosophy of "Circle". Pros and cons¹, everything has two sides, especially in people's hearts. When a concept is born in people's mind, another concept must also be born to compete and hedge against it. The principle of cycle² mainly expresses energy cycle and causal cycle. There is no need to say much about the energy cycle. The basic principle of alchemy and alchemy, "one is all, all is one" is also established on this basis. The causal cycle, from the effect to the cause, the cause is infinite, and the uncertainty carried by each cause will continue to spread to the subsequent effect through the butterfly effect. ? There are countless examples in the steelmaking FA to prove these, I will list a few below, of course, many of them actually involve other root problems, the steelmaking FA is indeed a work worthy of repeated viewing, which involves Many pairs of dialectical relations are worth thinking about.
❶ The villain in a bottle who aspires to be "complete" has not become a god, but has become the most incomplete "human". He claims to be a sanctioned person and despises the despicableness of the sanctioned person, when in fact he is pursuing what he pursues In the process of creating things, he also cultivated such a character in his body, but he didn't know it until the last moment. The little man that came from the bottle ends up in the bottle. ❷ Hohenheim, who longed to get rid of slavery and longed for freedom, was enslaved by invisible shackles for hundreds of years before completing his mission and finally left safely. ❸The Sage's Stone, made from human life, also saved many lives and played a decisive role in the final battle. Although evil cannot be eliminated, the Stone of the Sage is the product of evil, but it is ultimately used to punish evil and bring light, vitality and peace to the country. ❹President Russ, who represented "anger", was very peaceful when he left, without the slightest anger. Pride², who represents "arrogance", decisively gave up his pride as an android when the real crisis came. Enwei, which represents "jealousy", is essentially the self-inferiority of oneself and the envy of the positive emotions of human beings. It's like a troll keyboard on the Internet. Grid⁴, who represents "greed", does not despise what he has, but attaches great importance to it. It turns out that greedy people do not blindly grab, but desire and enjoy the feeling of having. Of course, it is this feeling that makes the meaning of greed. My dear, I really have you. I didn't expect you, Grid, to enjoy this possession until the time when you were completely lost. Sloth⁵, who represents "laziness", is actually just laziness in thought, because in the play, although he keeps shouting "so troublesome", his behavior is diligent and even agile. Gratoni, who represents "gluttony"⁶ has been devouring others mindlessly and mindlessly, and his catchphrase is also "Can you eat?", but when he was finally devoured by others, he showed fear, cowardice and a billions of reluctance. Drawing ⁷ representing "lust" was originally the "strongest spear" and "bone sharp knife", but in the end, he was "tickled clean" by others. She should only focus on physical satisfaction, but what she showed before her death was the affirmation and even admiration for the steadfast soul of Chief Colonel. ❺Alchemists who are equivalent to scientists, some people lose their humanity in order to peep at the will of God or even just to keep their jobs, while some people take the initiative to give up the path to the future in order to regain the warmth of the past and welcome the beauty of the future. The supremacy of truth. ❻ Representing "revenge", Ska later chose to let go of hatred and save together with everyone even though he still had complicated emotions in his heart. Thousands of people in a country that once brought great disaster to their people. ❼ The Armstrong family has passed down not only the special effects of stars, but also the lofty heroic personality. Alex Armstrong, whose "cowardice" is a retreat in the face of an unjust war, is essentially a tenderness, a tenderness for justice. The ancient saying goes, "Mercy does not lead soldiers", the pursuit of war is victory, this kindness may bring disaster to the troops in some wars, but in some battles it can also erupt with amazing power, when defending justice , when protecting relatives.
Of course, steelmaking FA also expresses many, many other values, such as reflection on war, reflection on sin, reflection on human nature, and reflection on all kinds of life, etc. Many contradictions are wonderful in the plot. , dialectically played out.
In addition, Ganglian FA also expresses his love for other ethnic groups, and the author's simple, sincere and kind qualities run through the whole play. For example, Zhang Mei and Xiaomei are also representatives of Sino-Japanese friendship. They are cute incarnations in the play. They are really cute. I watched the whole process in sync haha.
History moves forward with twists and turns. Human life is limited, and life is short and risky. Only the silence of countless lives can be exchanged for that small piece of progress. Humans always fail to learn lessons, even if they pay a painful price countless times, after all, neither experience nor memory is directly inherited. The wheel of history is rolling forward, but mankind has never stopped pursuing the truth and the right path. Therefore, although everyone's life is very short, human beings have never been abandoned by history. On the contrary, they have been leading history forward. This is the power of inheritance. The hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage, and the greatness of mankind is the greatness of inheritance. As long as human civilization survives, this path of pursuing universal values for all mankind will not be cut off.
"Fullmetal Alchemist FA" is a heavy, profound and complete work, a work worthy of repeated viewing and in-depth reading, a work that can be called a great work, a "circle of the century".
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