hard to justify

Sandrine 2022-03-28 09:01:13

Finished watching "Lain". According to the Internet, there are mixed reviews. It's impossible to understand it without doing your homework in advance, at least you'll be foolish to read it yourself.

All in all, almost no trace of "EVA" can be seen. To talk about this and the other places, it is very shocking to use a large space stagnant scene, an unbelievably powerful sense of existence. Compared with the gorgeous violence of "EVA", the inner monologue of the stream of consciousness, the confusion and despair of the beginning and the end of the century that have been repeatedly emphasized, and the careful consideration of the details, "Lain" is always a fleeting, simple and experimental. .

OP Theme is good. Go down and check the bôa. The hat was blown up by the wind, and the black shadow of the crow's wings was projected on the face, leaving behind the hat and the shadow floating on the overpass and the scene of withdrawing away. Later, I was shocked by the setting of the scene. The recurring pale and dazzling streets and the integrated sky, only the backlit wall lines perpendicular to the road are clearly visible, the outlines of the flowers are looming under the strong light, and the powerful black projections flow with red spots. Or realistically sharpened staggered high-voltage lines. Existence! ! Psychedelic and firm existence.

The unpleasant thing is that the purpose is vague. The real world has always been set as an experimental breeding environment, but the existence of CYBIRA, the actions of KNIGHT, and the cause and purpose of Yingli Zhengmei's behavior are a bit too much to explain. Looking at Bi Yuyu's research, "the real material world, the online world and the human subconscious network" can actually see three worlds, strong. "The psychedelic drug of electronic products", this term has never appeared before, at least explain the effect! And you can see the "carbon coolant" in Chapter 12, hey, where did you say "carbon coolant", what is this? ! Another thing I can't stand is that the understanding of protocols and networks in the animation is completely ignorant and ridiculous;

Experimental works, there is no need to be ambiguous enough to deliberately escape the main line logic; even if this is also a part of the experiment, why bother to generate so many annotations on the Internet. Since we want to do cyberpunk, and engage in a combination of collective unconsciousness and network intrusion, why not take a deep cut, which is always inexhaustible. It really makes people suspect that Abe Yoshijun himself is obscure.

Hey, I actually made myself angry~~~

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Extended Reading
  • Amparo 2022-04-01 09:01:18

    Almost ten years ago, I forgot all about what I saw, but I remembered that the film was hard to find and longed for for a long time. I felt so bored when I watched it, but the abandoned film failed to live up to my previous expectations. . . The ending song is good.

  • Aida 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Finally finished it after ten years. Such experimental and colorful animations are probably going to sell out in this fast-food era. The narrative technique of stream of consciousness and the sub-mirror of expressionism use a Frankenstein-style story to explore the existence of human beings and the meaning of information transmission, denying structuralism and metaphysics, and affirming language as a weapon evolved by human beings meaning. Humans are by no means mechanical, and memory is not just a copy of information.

Serial Experiments Lain quotes

  • Iwakura, Yasuo: Let me give you one little warning.

    Lain Iwakura: Huh?

    Iwakura, Yasuo: When it's all said and done, the Wired is just a medium of communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse it with the real world. Do you understand what I'm warning you about?

    Lain Iwakura: You're wrong.

    Iwakura, Yasuo: Huh?

    Lain Iwakura: The border between the two isn't all that clear. I'll be able to enter it soon. In full range. Full motion. I'll translate myself into it.

    Iwakura, Yasuo: Even with a top of the line civilian Navi, you couldn't.

    Lain Iwakura: I can do it. I've modified mine.

    Iwakura, Yasuo: A Psyche processor, huh? But...

    Lain Iwakura: Don't worry. I'm still me.

    Iwakura, Yasuo: Sometimes I wonder.

  • Lain Iwakura: [gasp]

    Miho Iwakura: The wired might actually be thought of as a highly advanced upper layer of the real world. In other words, physical reality is nothing but an illusion, a hologram of the information that flows to us through the wired.

    Lain Iwakura: But ma...

    Miho Iwakura: This is because the body, physical motion, the activity of the human brain is merely a physical phenomenon, simply caused by synapses delivering electrical impulses.

    Lain Iwakura: But mom, I...

    Miho Iwakura: The physical body exists at a less evolved plane only to verify one's existence in the universe.

    Lain Iwakura: Are you really, truly my mother?

    Miho Iwakura: [disappears]

    Lain Iwakura: Are you?