"Memories are not an outlet for escapism"

Haven 2022-11-22 16:36:58

These are the words Heintz shouted when the vision of his beloved daughter in his arms disappeared. After persuading Eva not to live in the memory, but inevitably immersed in the great grief of the lost daughter again in the virtual world created by Eva, he shouted this sentence.

Throughout the three films, they are all ruthless attacks on reality. In Canon Fodder, people escape from reality by indulging in it. "For what" doesn't matter, what matters is just doing it right. This escapism has become a mantra for what many people call "accepting reality." So we see people repeating their daily life in a daze, the mother cooking and worrying about the child's study; the father going to work in the factory every day; At first glance, this is an unusual scenario. However, with the background plot in the cartoon, all the people are building cannons, and children learn to build cannons in school. The child's ideal is to not build cannons in the future, but to shoot cannons, so there is absurdity. mean. But how many people really care what they are doing? What they do, what they learn, whether they build cannons, and how much influence does it have on their daily lives?

Magnetic Rose has ruthlessly uncovered the scars of many, those who escaped reality through memories. In such a chaotic life, have you pinned all your hopes in your memories? I have seen many people who live by memory, and their joy is to tell the glory of the past. Don't think that these only happen to the elderly, those who are lost in love, those who are frustrated, and even those who have been brilliant along the way, all live in memories more or less. For the memory of those who wash their faces with tears every day, for the memory of those who cannot find themselves, for the memory of those who are unwilling to face reality.

In the Stink Bomb, it alludes to the judgment system of authority and harmony. "What should I do?" Tanaka, the little character in the film, encountered a huge change that he couldn't understand and explain, and lost his mind. The boss in Tokyo instructed him to come to Tokyo immediately with samples and materials, and not to let anyone know what happened. Panicked, he immediately packed up and set off. However, it turned out that the leader's judgment was wrong, the bigger leader ordered to snipe him, and the bigger leader ordered to catch him alive. Tanaka, who didn't know why, was overjoyed when someone rescued him. After everyone close to him fell down, he couldn't stop to think about what went wrong. He only knew that he should follow the leader's instructions and move forward. Grandma rushed over and shouted to him on the plane, telling him to stop and go back to the mountains. He still didn't stop to think about what happened, why did grandma stop him, and still followed the leader's instructions. The planes and tanks coming from all directions attacked him together. He only knew that he had to complete the task. He was very heroic, and his courage even defeated modern weapons... But why didn't he stop and think about why everyone was attacking him? If the leader had a way to shout to him again and let him go back to the mountains, he would definitely turn around and go back without hesitation, thus avoiding the absurd tragedy that followed. Our leadership is more than just the one above us; all of our present, past, future individual and larger collective decisions have too often fallen into Tanaka's position: it's right to stop and think. Is it wrong? Did you stop and think about what happened?

After Heintz shouted, the destruction began. After the noise, he seemed to have fallen asleep. After a terrifying silence, in space far from the magnetic rose forged by memories, he woke up and breathed lightly on the rose petals inside his mask.

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  • Heinz: Memories... Memories aren't an escape