Philosophical steel, helpless life

Hilma 2022-03-24 09:02:23

The reason why many people can't finish watching steel is that such a 51-episode cartoon makes life drenched in blood. It's not the wound that hurts, but the helplessness

that many tragedies happen. It's not their original choice, but more Forced by the environment; Ed has been looking for the "Sage's Stone" in order to restore El's body, the artificial man is looking for the "Sage's Stone" in order to become a human, and the Scar Man is looking for the "Sage's Stone" for his own country. "The biological father and mother are looking for the stone of the sage for eternal life, no one can say that whose starting point is right and noble, but that each person chooses to achieve it in a different way. When Rust was asked by Ed as a good man, "Isn't immortality pursued by everyone, why are you still pursuing the Sage's Stone?", Rust answered, and answered a question that we haven't noticed for a long time One of the truths of "this is the same as you are struggling to find a body for your brother", what an obvious answer, but often Eddie won't find it, we won't find it. People always think that they are engaged in a career that has more reason and value than others or lead a more meaningful life, but they often ignore that the same is true for others. It is obvious that the dreams are the same, why are they bigger in the eyes of Aide? small? Originating from "selfishness", it is invisible because of selfishness, and magnifies itself because of self. This is true in animation, and it is also true in life.

The principle of equal exchange has always been the foundation of steelmaking, and it was only at the end that the interpretation of this sentence was revealed. Giving and receiving are not necessarily equivalent. The 51-episode cartoon finally denied the principle of equality. Ed's father said: A tape recorder is broken, and alchemy can be used to make a new tape recorder under the same substance. At the same time as the exchange outside the door, it is also the departure of a character in the world inside the door. Therefore, the exchange outside the door is actually based on the "principle of inequality". No one knows how the equation is established between giving and receiving. Only the truth can be obtained that "giving is not necessarily rewarding, and if you don't pay, you will definitely have no gain."

The world of charity is the world outside the door. It is built on the "principle of equal exchange". Why is there no happiness in such a world of the principle of equal exchange? This world should be the one we seek, a fair and fair world, but it is full of such bloody brutality; the world in the door does not have the principle of equal exchange, and there are constant wars. This is the case inside and outside the door, so it can be seen that the principle of equal exchange is not wrong; in the world outside the door, in the face of lost things, they want to get back, but if they can't get it back, they want to use the stone of the sage, so civil strife broke out; The world in this world is our world, and everyone in this world understands, no nonsense. Inside and outside the door, two worlds, one situation; different pursuits, the same desire; different people, the same human nature.

In addition, I feel that the end of the 03 edition is a bit religious~~~, I won't talk about it here. . .

Let's talk about the androids.
In the comics, the androids are about Ed's father who separated the seven negative emotions in himself (consistent with the seven deadly sins in religion) and recreated seven androids, each with a personality consistent with his original sin. . There are seven such people in 03, but there is no such interpretation, which is a pity.

----Last (lust, lust) The android is cruel and bloodless, but his original dream was to become a "human", a "dead man" (last words). Because the person you love dies, and you are immortal, you can't accompany each other in death. It can be said that you die indirectly from lust. What about longevity? Like "it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years", what's the point of the length of life without the brilliance of life?

---- Gluttony (Gluttony, gluttony). Food color, sex also. Appetite and lust are human nature, so in the steel mill, Rust and Gratoni are inseparable, and the most common saying is "Can I eat this, Rust". In the end, when Glatoni learned that Rust was dead, he lost his appetite. It doesn't matter what you eat, what matters is who accompanies you to eat with you. At last he died with the Virgin because of appetite

— GREED (greed). "I want everything in this world." Grid pursues all things in this world, material and immaterial. In the end, in order to get the freedom of his own soul, he chose "suicide". But the greed of this world is not as good as his, and it is more about giving up the soul for material things. Would the world be cleaner if greed was so thorough?

---- Sloth (sloth, lazy). I didn't see Sloth's laziness in the animation, unfortunately, I hope to see it in the 09 version of steel. Nietzsche was once asked, what did he think of having been to so many countries? Nietzsche's answer is that all people are lazy by nature, which shows that one of human nature is lazy. Sloth is the body of their mother that Ed and Al traded from outside the door after sacrificing Al's body and Ed's hand. (There is a problem here, the 03 version of the android was obtained because of the failure of the human refining technique, and the 09 version of the android was obtained by an equal exchange of bodies. Personally, 03 is a bit contradictory). Because Slos couldn't bear the love of her sons for her, she would rather choose to forget the memory. Once forgotten, there is no need to bear, is it also a manifestation of laziness?

----- Lass (wrath, anger), the only artificial person who will grow old. I didn't see his anger in the 03 version, except that he died because of his son at the end, killing his own son in anger. He was eventually killed by Roy and died of his last anger at his son.

-----Envy (envy, envy), Envy who can become anyone, Envy who loves his biological father, jealous of Ed and Al, and eventually died at the hands of Ed and his own jealousy .

-----Pride (pride, pride), Prade is the body of the son of Master Ed, with Ed's right hand and left leg, so he is the only artificial person who can use alchemy. (Actually, in the 03 version, I prefer to believe that this is Al's body, because the android can't grow up, and the child of Master Ed is just a baby, and Prader's figure in the 03 animation is the same as Ai's body. Al almost, it was Al for Ed's left leg.), the only android who didn't die.

"Cause and effect cycle, sowing the cause to get the cause, sowing the effect to get the effect", it can also be said that "one kind of character has one destiny", "good will be rewarded with good, evil will be rewarded with evil", it would be nice if the distinction between good and evil was so clear , if the cause and effect are reciprocated, that's fine.




People helplessly have so many natures, helplessly choose their own behaviors by nature, helplessly face the equation of life's pay and gain, helplessly go to the other side of the door and



think of the philosopher Zhu Xi's "preserving the principles of nature, destroying human desires". , if it can really do this, what is the principle of heaven? What if the law of heaven is wrong, or, like the principle of equal exchange, only half right? Thinking of Wang Shouren's experience of examining things, he eventually became a representative of the Xin faction. He believed that the heart is the root of everything, so how can people abandon their desires? How will Tianli be put on hold?

In the end, I can only say: the steel of philosophy, the helpless life

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Fullmetal Alchemist quotes

  • [after blowing open wall of Lab 5]

    Scar: Full Metal Alchemist! Take your brother and get out of here!

    Edward Elric: I don't need your help!

    Scar: Maybe not, but your younger brother needs you.

    Edward Elric: Let's go!

  • Number 48, Slicer: Older Broher: No, you don't understand. You must destroy us.

    Slicer: Young Brother: He's right. You must destroy us. There is nothing for the defeated but death that is our rule.

    Edward Elric: I'm not killing anyone. That's not what I do.

    Number 48, Slicer: Older Broher: You're too kind with your words. Calling us anyone, not anything. As if we could still be called human in this twisted state. I didn't say kill, I said destroy. Destroy these thing's we've become.

    Edward Elric: To do that, I'd have to admit you weren't human. And for me to do that, I'd have to admit the same of my brother and I can't do that.

    Number 48, Slicer: Older Broher: He's your brother.