Lain~~Existing questions

After rushing for two weeks, Lain finally finished Chapter 13. After reading it, I felt just two words - dazed. It has the same mysterious theme as EVA, but it is more obscure and boring than EVA. At least in EVA, you can see huge biological robots and various apostles fighting, and there are also conspiracies, love, family, friendship, and myths for entertainment. , although I will be impatient with Anno Hideaki's lazy super-long freeze frame and rambling self-talk, but after watching Lain, I found out that animation can be lazy to such a situation - even the background image can be left intact. Move it over and over and reuse it. Feelings are like an ancient text RPG. Either a lot of self-talk and unknown pictures are shaking in front of your eyes, or noisy techno dance music or ethereal to transparent voices echoing in your ears. Stream of consciousness, jumping thinking, jagged cuts on the timeline, the highly developed online world and the blurring of the real world, combined with monotonous characters, monotonous scenes, monotonous dialogues, and lack of patience and mental concentration absolutely I can't see Lain, I have to admit that I deserted many times, so I can only understand Lain by guessing.

It seems that Lain's story is not complicated at all. It is about the discussion of reality and virtual reality in the Internet after the Internet is highly developed. In fact, whether it is real or virtual has become an important topic. The popularity can show that virtual existence is affecting real existence. From the perspective of making Lain before 2000, it has a certain forward-looking significance.

But when the film came out, it was really complicated enough, alas.

So, I created an explanation about Lain myself:

Lain was originally an autonomous consciousness awakened on the Internet (similar to an engineer or Smith in The Matrix). The powerful Lain has the ability to modify the real world at will, and then Lain entered the human world by chance. Because he no longer has access to the Internet, his ability It was also closed. Yingli Zhengmei discovered about Lain after entering the online world. He needed Lain's ability to help him realize the evolution of human beings to the Internet. However, since Lain in reality does not have access to the Internet, he can only exert influence indirectly. Modified the Iwakura family including Lain's memory, making Lain the daughter of the Iwakura family, and actually making them a tool to monitor Lain on his behalf, and gradually introduce the real Lain into the online world. After Lain in the real world came into contact with the Internet, Yingli Zhengmei fabricated false memories about another Lain to confuse Lain, making him give up his physical existence and return to the online world to become his own believer. As for why it takes so much trouble, it is estimated that Yingli Zhengmei has no way to directly affect the existence of the real world, but can only exert influence mentally. In the end, his wishful thinking failed. Although Lain returned to the online world, he affirmed the existence of the real world and eliminated Yingli Zhengmei.

For the time being, I think my explanation is not bad, huh, yes, I also need to explain an assumption that although Yingli Zhengmei can change the memory and behavior of people in the real world like modifying the program, it cannot complete the running result of the prefabricated program, otherwise If he can predict everything, then Ellis will have no chance to help Lain realize the meaning of reality.

I don't plan to watch this film for the time being, it's too laborious, I hope to discuss it with my friends~

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