First of all, the theme of the story has a strong realistic meaning. The fast pace of life, the high cost of living, and the fierce competition for interests have put people in the city under more and more pressure. In addition, the indifference and alienation between people have made many people exhausted, so escaping becomes Everyone's choice. Baseball Boy represents an imaginary figurative entity created by people to escape from reality. In the first few episodes, Jin Min only mentioned that people who were attacked by Baseball Boy accidentally put down their mental pressure. I thought Baseball Boy would be portrayed as a positive As a figurative entity that helps people escape the illusion of reality, the liberation brought by the baseball boy is destined to be only false. Basically, this is not the same as the use of alcohol and drugs. There is no difference between suicide or suicide, so the next few episodes are completed together, using the false calm obtained by the two people after escaping from reality as an opportunity to lead the theme of the whole film - everyone can only face the reality. Gain peace of mind.
Secondly, the arrangement of the characters is very clever. The ova in episode 13 has a lot of characters, but through clever arrangements, it first radiated from the center of Yukiko, and then came back together through the baseball boy, very compact, and although each character is running away, but their own The experience is very different, which reflects all the problems in the whole society. For example, in Youyi, a star student who is excellent in both utensils and academics mocked the achievement-only education system, and on the other hand, he ran for the president of the Children's Association. The dark side such as adults' intrigue and calculations are reflected in the adult society's erosion of children's innocence. Every character is worth seeing.
Episodes 8, 9, and 10 seem to be separated from the main storyline, but in fact it greatly enriches the overall theme. The fanaticism of the thoughtful suicide trio in Episode 8 frightens the baseball teenager away. It is more terrifying than delusion. Completely nihilistic; in Chapter 9, the matter of the baseball boy is not related to the baseball boy, and the long-tongued woman makes you laugh out loud, and the housewife who has been ridiculed all the time faces her dying husband. The talk of the long-tongued women is that the fragility of human nature has made the baseball boy; the baseball boy's bat and the bat in the hands of the people in Chapter 10 are integrated in reality. The baseball boy not only exists in every corner of this society, but also exists. in the dark corners of everyone's soul.
The animations at the beginning and end are also quite interesting. Everyone in the film is laughing, even standing in the rushing traffic, hanging upside down in the sky, wearing summer clothes and standing on the top of the snow-capped mountains. This weird combination makes the smiles on everyone's faces feel weirder and weirder. The colder he felt, the forced smile was also an escape. At the end of the film, everyone fell asleep peacefully on the grass, leaving a huge question mark. Can you escape when you fall asleep?
In the end, the old man in the hospital became the earliest enlightened Ma Ting. Whether everything was just Ma Ting's fantasy, or the beginning of another reincarnation, there was no pun intended, leaving a huge room for speculation.
PS: The flat world that pig hunting created to escape from reality is amazing
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