The subtitles I chose when I watched it this time were very standard. The lines in Innocence are filled with a lot of philosophical thinking. Sometimes you feel like all the characters, or even the entire movie, are engaging in a splendid self-talk. When I first watched it, the subtitles were not in the standard version, so I felt that something was missing in some places, and I didn't seem to understand. There are a lot of citations in Innocence, including Japanese literature, red sentences, folk culture, and the Analects of Confucius. And English literature, French literature, Russian literature. Plus some writings by scientists and naturalists. In the standard version of the subtitles these quotes are all cited. I like the feeling of knowing the cause and effect, making you feel like you're following the creator's mind. While the coherence of the film itself is ensured, the esoteric exploration of existence involved remains obscure. Although the scene setting of "Ghost in the Shell 1" is the same and the characters are retained, the story is not the same. This time it's a story about dolls. In the highly developed future of science and technology, human beings not only expand the advantages of their physical existence to the limit, that is, the widespread use of mechanical prosthetics, but also create format machines to perform many functions on their behalf. The main line of the story is the handout police, the major's partner in "Ghost in the Shell 1", to investigate the behind-the-scenes behind the self-destruction of a humanoid sex slave who killed her master. Through a series of investigations, the plot turns, the answer is gradually clear, and the doll company that has close ties with the violent organization injects the soul of the purchased girl into the doll, and the so-called doll becomes a mixture of man and machine, which is why This kind of doll has occupied the market as soon as it came on the market. The reason why human female slaves attacked their masters was because a certain employee in the company modified the program without authorization. The reason for this is precisely to make the incident bigger and attract the attention of the outside world. If the judiciary intervenes in the investigation, the girl who has been bought with a soul to be poured into the doll can eventually be rescued. When the prosthetic police finally rescued the little girl from the mechanical equipment and understood the ins and outs of the matter, the prosthetic police sighed and said, if you did this, didn't you expect there would be victims, those dolls who committed suicide , are sacrifices. The little girl cried, but I didn't want to be a puppet. The major who came to help said, "Those who have a voice are fortunate." If the doll could talk, it would probably scream too, so I don't want to become a human.
Unlike in "Ghost in the Shell 1", the question about "existence" here is that something in the form of a human is really alive? At the same time, with human consciousness, is it really alive? With human form, but without human consciousness, can it be called human? Going a step further, is it really such a lucky thing for people to have consciousness? In the movie, the puppet mechanic mentioned that if having human consciousness and behaving in accordance with ordinary people's consciousness is a prerequisite for becoming a human, then the child has his own world and consciousness. From this point of view, the child cannot be called a human being. It's human. It is mentioned that the French naturalist and scientist Ducarul had a doll as his daughter, named it and spoiled it. The question is why are humans so keen to make things that resemble their own form? And this being created, apart from being human-like in shape, is not actually a human being. If the biological principle of everything human beings do is to pass on their genes, why do they have to look like themselves to build machines that break down and age and use them for entertainment and service? Humans have the so-called human consciousness, and when the limbs are not purely human organisms, can we still be called human beings? Just like the prosthetic policemen Bart and Major, they have human consciousness and thinking ability, but they do not have physical existence as human beings. Bart's actions and attitudes in this film serve as a continuation of the Major's questioning of his own existence in "Ghost in the Shell". The movie quoted a sentence from John Christopher. In fact, most people are not as happy and unfortunate as they think, as long as they don't lose hope for the future. When I watched "Innocent" for the first time, the subtitles translated this sentence describing Bart into: Live alone, do no evil, and desire less. When I read it a second time, the commentary stated that this sentence is from the fourteenth chapter of "The Words of the Buddha: The Nibotta Sutra". Walking alone in the world, I purify myself, without desire or desire, like an elephant in the forest. Would love to know how many other ways to translate. No doubt the second is more obscure, and at the same time contradictory, better understood. When I watched "Innocent" for the first time, the phrase "live alone, don't do evil, and desire less" kept lingering in my mind because I didn't understand it. How can we not do evil and live alone? Bart's partner in Innocence is the Major in A partner chosen among the non-prosthetic cops in "Ghost in the Shell 1". Funny how his and Bart's life contrasted sharply. The policeman has a family, a wife and children, and his wife and children are always in his mind when performing the task, which makes him unable to concentrate fully. When he said the faces of his wife and children were always in his mind, Bart said, it wasn't your wife and children, it was death.
Bart's electronic brain was invaded, so Bart and his partner went to the north where there was no judicial control and illegal groups to find the initiator, an old acquaintance of Bart. This person has done a lot of illegal things, and wandered on the fringes, and finally got his wish and became a hacker. He is the one who doesn't have enough control, and has more than enough control, and a dog who dies on the side of the road won't even smell it. In Bart's words: I was killed by my own talent for life. At this man's house, Bart escaped his trap with the help of Major. The questions this person brings are about consciousness and death. First of all, human suffering comes from the limitations of consciousness. And the doll who is completely unconscious in the dark is the highest state of happiness. At the same time, there are animals who can achieve this state. Ignorance is happiness. It is for this reason that he used his consciousness into the doll, leaving only a little physical existence. And whenever there are visitors, he looks like he has burned his electronic brain to death because of the protection net of the intrusion network. The question he raises is whether the seemingly inanimate thing is dead; on the contrary, is the seemingly alive thing really alive? Most people accept death passively without knowing it. The reason people don't understand death is because people don't understand living. Confucius said, "If you don't know life, how can you know death." Most people live in chaos and inevitably die in the end. I know very little about death. I know that it is an inevitable result of life; I know it is different from birth, but the two have a wonderful similarity; I know it is different from loss; I know it is different from pain. What is death and what it means, I think I will only understand if I understand the meaning of existence if I live. The meaning of existence is not the same as the concept of self. Major and Bart are self-aware beings, and the two are strikingly similar. Bart's feelings for Major are so persistent and unique, and Major is doing what he should do for Bart in his own way. The two belong to the same kind but are not exactly the same. It may be a feeling of mutual sympathy. Bart would still put clothes on Major, and Major would still come back to help Bart at critical moments. But in the end, Major still chose to integrate into the huge network to find the meaning of his existence. Bart asked Major, do you feel happy now? What a nostalgic value, the Major said, at least I don't care now. I walk alone in the world, I purify myself, have no desires and no desires. Like an elephant in the forest, Bart smiled and continued her words.
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