"Attack on Titan" is a rare and real animation work. It truly expresses the inner joy, desire, entanglement and pain of different characters, and relatively truthfully restores the hierarchical order, moral system, and values in our society from the core logic. Orientation, political law. The author did not portray the characters in a masquerade manner, nor did he forcefully impose a mission of justice on the characters, but put everyone in a dilemma, using very cruel plots and pictures to show that if you want to protect you must sacrifice, if you want to protect, you must sacrifice. Achievement must be destroyed, and if you want to move forward, you must give up. In this drama, there are no good people, no bad people, no heroes and villains, only real ordinary people who stand on different positions.
If there was no war, these ordinary people would quietly marry and have children, fight with the children next door, and live an ordinary life. Although some people regret not having seen the sea, some people cannot eat because of class oppression. I am full, but the whole is still in a balance. At the very least, I don’t have to watch my close relatives being dismembered and swallowed up, and I don’t have to watch my clansmen turn into innocent giants and run wild in the wilderness. But all this changed after the temperament of the three teenagers outside the wall: Reiner, Berthold, and Ymir.
The moment the super-large giant appeared on the wall, and the moment Kaiju broke the wall, the order of the world changed dramatically. This is very similar to the logic of the occurrence of real world wars. The First World War began with a bullet fired by a hot-blooded youth on the streets of Sarajevo. The Second World War stemmed from a riot in a beer hall... Every major upheaval of the world order begins with a series of butterfly effects caused by the impulse of a certain social individual's head to heat up. (Of course, the fragile balance is the root of the butterfly effect that can be turned on)
Although there have been plans for Allen's subsequent transformation, it was a bit unexpected that the young Allen turned into a "devil" who slaughtered Marais in the fourth season - this day came a little early.
As the protagonist, Allen will inevitably become the key for the author to solve the "world proposition", either with him or with his destruction. The "world proposition" here is war.
No one can tell when the social form of war came to the world and why it came to the world. In the comics, it can be attributed to some kind of demon, but in the real world, the so-called demon can only be Refers to the evil in human nature. Well, the obvious emotionally oriented word "evil" may not be accurate, let's just say it's the competitive nature of human beings.
As the highest form of human competition within the species, war has always been the basic option for human beings to solve problems, and it is probably also an instinctive option. Human civilization has developed so far, and this instinct has really not changed in the slightest. Today's ever-growing armaments, ever-increasing estrangement, and ever-increasing sense of insecurity can all find realistic projections among the giants. It's not that the giant's author has high predictive ability, but the world has always been like this.
Having said that, it is necessary to talk about the setting of the giant species. I think this setting is the essence of the entire comic. Ordinary giants kill without brains, and smart giants dominate the battlefield, but behind the giants, ordinary humans control everything. Personally, I think the so-called "giants" are actually evil forces in human nature. Once this evil force is stimulated, people become bloodthirsty monsters. Giant skills can be inherited by being "eaten", and even if they are not eaten, the skills will be randomly passed on to newly born Eldians. In the long history of human development, countless ethnic groups and cultures have carried out plans and actions to "kill evil people", but "evil" itself has never disappeared. The reason is that it is easy to kill people, but difficult to kill oneself. The essence of evil that human beings have always wanted to get rid of, I think it is the insecurity of human beings themselves.
In the fourth season, because of insecurity, the Dyba family will use conspiracy to show Ellen's evil face to the world and let the world besiege the people on Eldia Island. It is also because of the sense of insecurity that Allen kills the Quartet and seeks the "submission" of the world. In the final analysis, it is because of the insecurities of human beings that there is a estrangement with others and other species, fear, and finally evil. Evil is just an assumption that human beings have about others after they feel a certain level of insecurity. Evil is not human nature, but insecurity.
Human beings are too weak, so they pursue strength, and the sign of strength is to suppress other races and ethnic groups through war and killing. The old and tattered "worldview" of the same kind, their hearts must be different", the current Sino-US game is a kind of reality verification.
In the near future, Attack on Titan will usher in the finale. In the comics, we may see the hope of ending the human war in despair, but in reality, the competitive nature of human beings will not change, and the sense of human insecurity will not change. It will change, so our world should not have any change.
All wars are futile, and there are no evil people in the world. But the war will continue, which is probably the fate of mankind.
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