I want to start writing mainly for beginners who are interested in hard sci-fi animation, such as me:
It will be easier to understand this film from the English title: a spectre haunts Europe. Spectre originated in French (the same form) and is widely used in various literary works. Compared with words like ghost and devil, it pays more attention to the soul and the influence on the atmosphere. For example, this word is used in "Macbeth", the spectre of Macbeth! In the past, I didn't realize that this word was magical when I read the book, until later, it was used to describe Valentine's soul in "The Count of Monte Cristo". At that time, it was like "Helen suddenly realized that the cool liquid flowing in her hand was 'water', 'water'. '" It dawned on me that the word turned out to be so emotional and impactful!
The precise interpretation and accumulation of various settings in the work make the whole film without any pretentious lofty attitude. Including the flashing LISP code (a line of Webpage LISP code of Gainax also appeared in FLCL), the sharing settings of "World Brain", the mapping of "connection network" to the World Wide Web... It can be said that from In terms of hardware, "LAIN" fully meets the standards of a rigorous high-level hard science fiction work. What is called accumulation, simplicity and power, after reading it, there will be a strong empathy.
In the process, the experience with the word 'spectre' can be even more overwhelming. From the temperatureless interpersonal relationship and the scientific and cold sense of future technology, you can more or less be vibrated by the divine string and feel the psychedelic sense of the spectre "ghost" everywhere. The point is not horror and evil (so no 'ghost' or 'devil'), but the "atmosphere" - such a densely shrouded look and feel is the essence of the title.
If you don't believe me, please read some news reports. Once "the unemployment crisis engulfs Greece" and "the sovereign default has come to Europe again", the use must be: "the spectre of ...." . It's amazing, needless to say.
Back to the topic, for a masterpiece whose title can stand up to scrutiny, how can anyone who loves hard science fiction miss it?
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