Once upon a time, this was a popular emotional expression. Lonely urban men and women could taste loneliness from any image or text. It's just that when "loneliness" has become a widely consumed emotional template, such a sentence pattern is more widely read because of its boringness and some irony.
Of course, for "Insect Master", this is a digression. The reason I mention it is because my understanding and experience of the "loneliness" emotion is largely derived from the Japanese anime I read when I was a teenager. Obviously, there is a very sensitive and delicate part of this nation's aesthetics. They can understand loneliness from the relationship between man and nature, and they can also deepen their understanding of loneliness from the status quo of alienation in the post-industrial era. Therefore, whether it is the thousand-year waiting and reincarnation, or the encounter on the streets of Tokyo at the end of the world, or the two in daily life, the budding emotions of youth, there is loneliness surging in any kind of emotion.
In the past two years, I have watched very little anime, and I am no longer sensitive to trivial matters, but I still can't stop crying in front of the elegant and indifferent pictures and music of "Honey and Clover" and "Natsume's Book of Friends". Why "loneliness" becomes an emotional template is actually quite understandable.
But I want to say that The Insect Master has clearly gone beyond that. Although the ink painting style of the picture, the music that is smart but still elegant, the story of a lonely traveler, and the sadness of the ubiquitous human heart all preset a picture that is very close to loneliness for us. But compared to the "ghosts" or "demons" produced by the various obsessions of human beings, "insects" are a kind of existence that is closer to the essence of nature. It does not arise because of people, nor does it disappear because of people. For them, survival is both a process and an end. This is, of course, a state beyond human comprehension. Because in addition to survival, people are also living, with joys, sorrows, joys, births, old age, sickness and death. The people's attitude towards insects in the play is actually our attitude towards nature, the universe, and life itself. There are doubts, fears, and admiration. Some people no longer dare to face the rolling torrent of time because they have experienced the time of life and death, and some people can be calmly engulfed by the eternal darkness. But more often, we are just ordinary people. Like Yingu said, we just need to work hard to live. The so-called life, there will be struggle, pain, joy, and loneliness.
Insect Master is a rare animation, but it doesn't need too much. Because thinking about the existence of life, time, light and darkness, even if they relate to existence itself, is only part of life.
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