From "Red Hot Chili Pepper" and "Millennium Actress" to "Delusional Agent", Jin Min's animation is an epic textbook of editing techniques.
But as the first animated TV directed by Mr., the relatively free length of the 13-episode "Delusional Agent" makes it more conditioned to be shaped so differently. (This article contains a lot of spoilers, it is recommended that you watch the original film first~)
All "techniques" serve the "story" itself. Whether it is the opening description of a sick society full of lies, the portrayal of the main line of the story "Juvenile baseball", or the life and death hints of the "suicide trio" in the 8th episode, which is my favorite, etc., "Delusional Agent" seems to abandon the gorgeous The dazzling skills, the overall tone of the picture is also more dull.
Starting from each person's own predicament, several originally unrelated characters are subtly linked through "pressure", "despair" and "self-salvation", and all kinds of contradictions caused by the rapidly expanding desire are thrown out one by one. As someone commented, "Unprecedented speed of advance will definitely bring unprecedented pressure." The exploration and torture of people's hearts have sublimated the whole article.
As the tipping point of the incident, she was also the first victim of the "juvenile baseball attack". Her childhood self-blame for the death of her pet Maromi and her fear of her father gave birth to an illusory street violent teenager for the first time. ;
After a lapse of 10 years, the heroine is facing huge pressure (work and colleagues) after becoming famous overnight. When the figurative "young bat" says おかえり (I'm back), it also means the official start of the story.
The setup of the two police detectives investigates the "juvenile baseball" from a relatively objective third-person perspective. The young police detective Ma Ting can be said to be a representative of the new era.
He can naturally integrate into the fantasy world imitating the fox mound, and at the same time, he also takes on the important task of directly fighting against the twisted "juvenile bat". At the end of the film, the scene in which Ma Ting's beard and hair are all white is deduced by the roadside, and the repetition of the image of the old man at the beginning of the play implies a cycle. Any social problem originates from the heart and cannot be truly solved by human beings.
Some people say that this is an obscure and dark adult-oriented animation, with a good appearance but a broken heart because of jealous pupils, tutors swallowed by the second "prostitute" personality, and pedophiles hated by their daughters and committed crimes. road police...
Indeed, if you add the suicide trio in episode 8, it's a messy life! However, on closer inspection, it is not entirely the case.
The daughter who was troubled by her pedophile father finally lost her memory. Although "forgetting the pain" is helpless, isn't it another way to move forward?
As for my favorite suicide trio, they searched for death all the way in the joyful music, but at the moment of discovering the truth, they felt another kind of moving other than "detachment". Many people are in tears.
The most symbolic is the confrontation between the adult Lu Yueko and her childhood self. When she picked up the dead マロミ and said sorry, the shadow of the "juvenile bat" disappeared for a moment. A faint さようなら (goodbye), the world that draws swords revert to its original state.
At this moment, everyone is saying goodbye and reconciling to the cowardly and dishonest "old self" in their hearts. Although the world is still hard and the future is destined to be difficult, it cannot stop "hope" from sprouting.
There is another one I want to share with you here, that is, the police detective Zhu Shou and his wife who has been waiting for him (she is also the only godlike existence who can repel the "juvenile bat" with her mouth cannon).
Pig hunting is a symbol of the past and tradition, and he once dreamed of a world in which the police should "hunt down thieves with tarpaulins on their backs".
Indeed, as he put it, "that vision is gone forever".
The pressure of survival, the desire for success, the escape from reality... In fact, everyone has a little bit of "cowardice" and a little bit of "inferiority" in their psychology. Even an old-fashioned police detective like Zhu Shou is not in his era. This is the end, after all, the key blow that finally brought Lu Yuezi out of the illusion is also relying on his willpower to break free from the illusion!
As for the wife who was sick all the time and worried about becoming a burden on the family, she hoped to go to her husband until the last moment. With the appearance of her youth, she "repaid" for the last time the heavy pressure on her husband's back over the years. beauty.
Finally, the seiyuu part of the lineup is gorgeous! Noto Mamiko, Iizuka Akizumi, Guan Junyan, Sakaguchi Daisuke, Mizuki Nana, etc. joined, the ears are very blessed (Yangmu Takaya hohoho)~~~ The original painting is also very original, Inoue Toshiyuki, Nishio Tetsuya, etc. (put Zhang list, you can feel it yourself), anyway, I was taught by Steel Refinement and Hokage to express that my knees are sore~
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