The towering but depressing metropolis, the highly explosive attitude of information, the dilapidated and apocalyptic old city after the rain, the blunt meaning of high technology, and the decisive battle scene like a religious scene have created the most serious animation, from its philosophical sense In terms of depth, The Matrix is also relatively inferior.
Of course, "The Matrix" is already a palace-level film, but the topics discussed are not final enough. The Matrix explores the collapse of the system and people's self-cognition, but "Ghost in the Shell" goes deeper and directly discusses the self , id and superego issues, and the topics of organizational diversity and organizational evolution.
The title of the film actually reveals the director's conclusion that the id cannot be used as an element of personality cognition, while the superego can exist independently of the id and the ego, and the id can be independently recognized as life.
But the superego is precisely a very unique existence. The superego is a feedback to the life environment, the opposite of the id, and for the strength of the ego, the puppet master in the film is just a superego, which is formed when the puppet master is formed. Before, it was a program between the ego and the id, but roaming in the sea of information gave him the characteristics of the superego, and finally realized the superego in the system by combining with the elements with a complete personality. continuation and reproduction.
This in itself has a high religious meaning. The superego, because of its opposition and aggressiveness to the ego and the id, and the director's generation of the superego is a natural process in the sea of information, which reflects the superego's natural law characteristics, but If the superego completely has the characteristics of natural law, then there will be no diversity. Therefore, just like inheritance and sharing in the principle of natural law, each superego has certain characteristics of natural law one-sidedly, forming the diversity of the superego. Sexuality and the continuation of the superego. This is of great significance. Just like the reproduction of the pure superego, it can only obtain a one-sided superego existence, and the diversity of the superego may constitute a superego whole that is infinitely close to the complete natural law. Therefore, the puppet master and the The combination of Elements has taken a big step towards the upgrading of the system, which should also be in line with the scene where Elements described the value of system diversification.
This is just my first impression of watching Ghost in the Shell, and I haven't watched Innocent yet. I believe that after reading this cartoon again and again, I should be able to have greater feelings and gains.
I have to admit that the only people who can bring animation to this level are the Japanese, and I look forward to the appreciation of Attack in the Shell 2.
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