The light of redemption in hell

Isom 2022-03-25 08:01:01

Roana Pura, the complete opposite of its beauty, is a hell on earth, full of evil desires and bloody conflicts. Stealing, robbery and kidnapping have long been commonplace; drugs, arms dealing and pornography are the mainstay of the economy here; the delicate and fragile balance of power is maintained by several powerful gangs such as the "Moscow Hotel" and the "Triad". Even the inhabitants of this place in peacetime can't be sure that their heads won't move, and once the balance is broken, the place will immediately be littered with corpses. Roana Pura, the air of decadence and decay, is a total tomb of the living dead. Of course, our protagonists, revi and rock, met in places like this.
If angelbeats use the best of human nature to save the resentful spirits cursed by fate, then blacklagoon completely uses the worst of human nature to satirize the hypocrisy and injustice of this world. Roana Pura is just a microcosm of this miserable world, and the cruelty of reality is not much better than what blacklagoon portrays. Human beings under the same sky are suffering from very different destinies. A considerable number of people's lives are being threatened in various forms, and the performance of those who should be held responsible is disappointing. Either because of ignorance, or just to shirk responsibility, these people use various high-sounding reasons to draw public attention, so that people in suffering are ignored or even forgotten. revi, this life that should have bloomed, a girl who should have believed in the love of the world and the beauty of human nature, but lost her parents and was bullied when she could not get the care of human nature. Apart from depravity and revenge, there was no other choice. , Rock's mouth gun in the German submarine that should have been omnipotent in other anime, did not impress revy in the slightest. Yes, since justice exists, why does it abandon me when I need it? I believe that a similar fate has also befallen everyone in Roanapura, erasing their beliefs and turning them into zombies that bite each other.
Compared with revy, Rock's fate was much duller, but being betrayed by his boss forced Rock to be forced to Liangshan. Compared with the ruthlessness of Dutch and Revy, Rock, who has just joined the team, certainly can't find the feeling of being a villain. He has repeatedly felt sympathy for those poor people. This is all expected by the wise Dutch, but he cannot be deeply aware of the sinister Jianghu. revy tolerated. So we see revy repeatedly disdain for rock, or complain about how uncomfortable it is to partner with rock. Rock is just an apprentice villain, he has not yet decided whether to go from dusk to darkness, and the barrier of communication between the two finally broke out completely under that freehand dusk.
Conflicts are often the reflection of misunderstandings, and the end of conflicts means the establishment of communication, marking the release of misunderstandings. So the hearts of the two people came together in the sound of the siren, and made a contract with each other with their lives. When they had a cigarrete kiss in a police car, I believe the seeds of love were sown. After that, Revy was no longer the cold-blooded killing machine. When Rock was teased by Ada, Revy's face was full of displeasure; when Rock was kidnapped by the Red Terrorist Organization, when he was hostile to Mr. Ginji, who cut bullets with a knife, he was even attacked. When Revy's only respected eldest sister, Balalaika, threatened with the finger of a gun, Revy did not evaluate the feasibility like Dutch, but pointed the gun at the guys who threatened Rock's life without hesitation. revy changed, because of rock, because of love, she believed in love.
Even the living dead in hell can be redeemed, at least we saw that revy changed because of rock, this is the black reef, this completely violent and unscrupulous animation gave me a little inspiration (of course not the complete feeling).
You can love until the end of the world, the sea is dry and the rocks are rotten, but do you dare to rot in the stinky ditch with me?

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Extended Reading
  • Rubye 2022-03-29 09:01:10

    I like it very much, but the hero is a waste!

  • Sigurd 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Violent aesthetics?~~~ If you don't want to step into the world of midnight, then wander in the dusk.

Black Lagoon quotes

  • Balalaika: [Rock hands phone to Dutch] Hi there, Dutch! I hear you went on a wild goose chase, and you got stuck playing games with Mr. Chin

    Dutch: Who told you about that?

    Balalaika: [Chin is strapped to a bomb in his apartment] He told me himself. Let's just say he's a bit too loud to organize any kind of conspiracy. He was blabbing away to just about everyone in town. even the dead would have known what was happening. anyways... we'll make sure nothing like this happens again. It was a real pain for you, wasn't it?

    Dutch: No, I wouldn't say that. It wasn't even enough to give me a headache.

    Balalaika: Thanks Dutch. I realize it's hardly enough after what you went through, but I'll let you hear something amusing: they call this "Pleasure and Pain"

    Dutch: Oh? Is it cooler than JB?

    Balalaika: Of course.

    [Balalaika pushes the button on the detonator]

    Dutch: [Dutch hears the explosion over the phone] Yeah, that sounded cool.

  • Dutch: We've been hired by an antique collector in Spain, and this guy's hobby happens to be collecting Nazi artwork.

    Revy: That's a pretty fucked up hobby.