After the comments questioned my excessive interpretation, I took advantage of the weekend to read the original "SNAFU: Future Warfare" today. The story of this film is the first story of this novel, titled SUITS, which is consistent with the title of the animation. After reading it, I was very disappointed. The whole story is that interstellar farmers fight bugs in the colony. There is no connotation or depth at all.
Despite this, I still retain my own interpretation and reflection, because my perspective at the time when I looked at the story was indeed different from this boring original plot. One thousand viewers, one thousand Hamlet, because the animation didn't explain more background, it gave me the opportunity to over-interpret. I still have to thank this work. Thinking and making progress, here I admit that I have "errors" in interpreting the pictures from the original work.
The doubts in the comments are correct, and your views are completely in line with the original work.
Directly post a paragraph of the original text, this paragraph clearly stated that after the establishment of the alien colony, the insects came and the humans were forced to resist. The insects are dimensional creatures, aliens, and invaders. The original book is really an old story about boring bugs...
Tau Ceti IV had taken decades to colonise, and it was a few years after the planet had been successfully terraformed that the aliens had shown up.
Coming through dimensional gateways on and just above the planet's surface, the'Dimensionial Beings' – or deebees for short – had initially wreaked havoc amongst the unsuspecting colonists. If it wasn't for an armed cruiser passing through for R&R, with heavy screens, armoured hull and batteries of hot lasers, the planet would have been overrun.
The invasion was finally broken, the gateways closing quickly and the deebees slaughtered with no line of retreat... now it was only a raid every few years, more a nuisance than anything else.
The following is the original text, with a typo corrected, and the others remain unchanged. It is still my thoughts after watching the film:
I think "Mobile Armor" is a hidden work. Many people didn't understand it. They thought they were praising the feat of mankind in defending the homeland and the great spirit of sacrifice. s things).
The key is the "reversal" at the end: the story is not the earth, humans live in colonies, and the aborigines are attacking these colonies.
Doesn’t it look like a reversal? It's really not like it, because from a human point of view, this is the story of a monster constantly attacking the human homeland, and human beings do their best to defend the homeland. The last small part of the plot seems to just expand this worldview, further highlighting the sinister environment of human living.
In fact, you should think carefully about why you know this story so that you can understand the author's deep meaning. Because, you think so, precisely because you are a human being, not a "monster"!
Let's take a look at the setting: human beings have various high-techs, and the aboriginal creatures of the planet have only physical abilities (it seems to have superpowers that cross the barrier, it is not clear whether it is a mechanical failure of the force field generator or the superpowers of the aboriginals). This obviously alludes to the scene when European colonists colonized the American continent.
These monsters are the native Indians. In the eyes of the colonists, they are barbaric, uncivilized, and uncivilized low-level animals, and cannot be counted as humans. The colonists believed that only the noble and civilized themselves were qualified to occupy this land. They kept occupying the land and driving away the aborigines. As a result, conflicts broke out between the two sides. The Indians used their manly arms as vehicles and used their bodies to rush to the colonists’ muskets.. ..... Switch to this picture, do you still think that the scene of killing monsters in the film is so cool? Recall one of the close-ups of an old grandmother killing a monster: a monster was blown into two sections, still struggling to crawl towards the cow, and finally hit by the old grandmother's mecha. (Please convert to this picture: an Indian who was hungry and robbed of the land he relied on, came to the colonists’ camp and wanted to steal something to eat. After being mutilated by the colonists, he continued to crawl towards the food, and then was tortured and killed by the colonists. ) This is the deep meaning of this feature!
If it is unjust for monsters to invade the homeland of human beings, can human beings invade the planets of the natives, colonize and occupy the mountains and rivers, and expel the natives, can it be called justice? ?
Change this story to an example that Chinese people can empathize with, and you can see it more clearly. The story goes like this: After Japan invaded China, the Northeast became a Puppet Manchukuo, and the Japanese living in the Northeast lived and worked in peace and contentment. After driving out the Chinese, they recklessly reclaimed our land. Often Chinese people who lacked food and clothing went to the Japanese fields to steal food, and the Chinese rebels continued to carry out guerrilla warfare to harass the Japanese and attack these aggressors. This film praised the Japanese invaders' brutal attack on the Northeast Anti-Japanese guerrillas and the capture and killing of General Yang Jingyu. It is a story of successfully defending the colonial rights of the Japanese invaders.
Do you still clap and applaud? The picture is extremely cool. The Japanese invaders sacrificed a brave and fearless Japanese farmer when they slaughtered Chinese people. The Japanese around him left moving tears: He died really great!
This episode uses a form of monster metaphor and innuendo to let us reflect on the way we see the world. It’s great!
E07 "Beyond the Cracks" also has the same effect. The male protagonist who lives in the fantasy dreams of alien creatures has seen a huge deviation in the way of looking at the world. The "beautiful" alien creatures have to take responsibility. Your people are not white?
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