In the eyes of Overnight, the animations created in the 1980s and 1990s have a charm that is unattainable for later generations.
The most critical part is the "innuendo to the real society" , and the intensity is often enough to make people jaw-dropping.
After that, it was based on the "darkness" style of painting, perhaps due to the backwardness of production techniques at that time, which led to such a look and feel.
However, this kind of unintentional insertion can undoubtedly make the "irony" of the whole work rise to a new level.
Even after the retro imitation of new animations, such as the new program "MEGALO BOX" in April 2018, the final look and feel that can be presented is still lacking.
Therefore, the animation of that era is unique and cannot be surpassed.
In today's issue, Overnight Jun will bring you a very special animation interpretation.
Of course, since the beginning of the animation has already rendered the charm of the animation at the end of the last century, then this animation will definitely be the best of that era.
Not much nonsense, let's leave it for you to slowly analyze it below---
"Memories Trilogy"
The animation "Memories Trilogy" is made up of three series of animated short films with a duration of 30+ minutes and independent plot stories.
The form is a bit like the domestic animation "Youth of the Year" released in the recent summer vacation. Although the stories are not related to each other, they also have a connected theme.
"Youth in Unbridled Style" has always been about "love" , while the common tone of "Trilogy of Memories" is "the excavation and ridicule of the dark side of society and human nature" .
I believe everyone has a good idea of who is better and who is worse. I won't say too much here overnight,
Next, let's take a look at which three series of stories are explained in this animation, and then what things are revealed---
The first volume is "The Memories of That Girl"
This series of stories takes place nearly 100 years later (2092), and tells the story of a service team that was cleaning up garbage in space and received a "mysterious distress radio wave" by accident.
As a result, he went to an abandoned spaceship in the "cosmic grave" , and experienced a life-and-death struggle with artificial intelligence inside it, and finally all the crew were on the verge of dying in space.
There are two main points of the plot-
One is the experience of the owner of the abandoned spaceship. He was a famous singer in the early 21st century and had a happy and beautiful family.
Later, due to her husband's "derailment" behavior, she made a brutal killing, and finally injected her memory into the computer and sent it into space,
Since then, the good times with her husband have been repeated in a constant cycle, in order to escape the reality that should be faced directly.
The second is the experience of the two rescuers. The AI computer is very powerful. It can not only make realistic holographic projections, but also read the conscious memory of human beings, and then create a realistic scene that makes the two rescuers "irresistible" .
One of them was tempted by "beauty" and couldn't extricate himself,
The other was so fascinated by the image of his deceased daughter that he almost fell into the captivity of artificial intelligence.
Fortunately, the astronaut who was addicted to "father-daughter love" woke up at the last moment, realized the fact that his daughter had died, and launched a counterattack against the AI computer.
Although the final ending was quite tragic, the creator also intended to let the astronaut who was awakened in danger save his life, which can be regarded as a kind of praise for the brilliance of human nature.
The second series of stories is "The Stinkiest Weapon".
The development of this series of stories is quite absurd. It tells about an employee who suffered from a flu and worked in a biopharmaceutical company, accidentally swallowed the "biological drug used in military warfare" secretly developed by the team (I thought it was a cold . medicine, so I took it by mistake).
Then, the situation got out of hand, and an inexplicable gas continued to emerge from the employee, causing every human who smelled this gas to fall into death instantly.
After inquiring about such a disaster, the leaders of various countries immediately gathered in Tokyo and dispatched all armed forces to kill the employee.
However, the funny thing is that regardless of whether it is a tank, a rocket launcher, or an aircraft carrier, it becomes useless under the interference of such gases.
Until the finale, everyone except the employee was killed under the influence of the gas.
The main thrust of this series of stories is undoubtedly obvious, and that is "the awe of great power" .
In fact, this animation is not the first to present this theme,
As early as 1988, director Keyang Otomo gave us an impressive performance on the world-famous "Akira"---
At the end of the plot, the protagonist Tie Xiong, who was blessed with a mysterious power by a scientist, ran rampant, disregarding all his emotions, and indiscriminately destroying all living beings.
It was not until the arrival of Akira in the end that after taking away all the things related to "powerful power" , including Tie Xiong and the scientists who developed the power, the world returned to peace.
It's just that the scene at that time was a mess, and the walls were broken.
In this animation to be interpreted today, director Keyang Otomo showed us another drama of "fear and worry about powerful forces" , which is the opposite of "Akira" (yes, "Memories Three" "Drama" is a work created and released by director Katsuhiro Otomo in 1995, seven years after the release of "Akira".)---
Pay attention to the name of the creators, this is an animation jointly created by director Keyang Otomo and director Jin Min...
The employee who was the root cause of the scourge was unaware of the seriousness of what had happened to him from beginning to end. ).
On the other hand, there is a majestic and arrogant combat organization composed of leaders of various countries.
But what? Exhausted all the armed forces, and finally failed to prevent the arrival of bad luck. This kind of comical contrast undoubtedly shows the "incompetence" of human beings when the disaster comes , more vividly,
It's really intriguing, I can't help myself, and I can't help but admire the creative ability of director Otomo Keyang.
Of course, like "Aguila", at the end of this series of stories, the ignorant employee who has always been kind and ignorant became the only survivor.
What is the purpose? Isn't it just to prove that he still has "hope" for mankind .
The third series of stories is "Street of Cannons".
The story is set in the "Steam Age" a hundred years ago , and tells the life of a family in a war-torn country.
What is "Street of Cannons" ? Pay attention to the screenshot below, the roofs of the entire town buildings are erected with turrets, large and small, in various shapes, and countless.
When we came together in the morning, adults and children went to work in their respective departments according to the "militarization" arrangement---
The men were assigned to the cannons, and according to the existing and repeated process, one after another giant ammunition was loaded onto the corresponding cannons, and they waited for the general's firing to destroy the distant places.
Women are arranged to come to the cannonball production workshop to make cannonballs day after day,
The children are arranged into teaching classes to learn the theoretical knowledge about the firing of artillery shells.
Residents of the whole country live in such a boring life. For most people, what they can taste is only a uniform, small amount of ration, and the quality of life can be imagined.
But even so , our big male protagonist "artillery kid" spends every day full of energy and dreams of becoming an "artillery general" one day .
What is this story trying to tell us?
When watching it many years ago, Ye Yejun only had feelings for "the suffering of war" , but after reading a book called "1984" recently, Ye Yejun finally realized it.
Yes, the series of stories of "The Street of Cannons" is based on the background of the times in this famous book, and it is covered by one sentence in the book, that is: "War is Peace" .
What's the meaning? That is, regardless of whether there are "enemies" in the outside world , the rulers of a country will create such an "objective fact" of endless war in order to ensure that their power status can last forever, and they will do their best to serve here.
Why bother with this? The reason is that "on top of productivity improvement" ,
Only with endless wars, the rulers can limit the productivity to the lowest level, and use up all the extra resources in the war, leaving them not reserved for the people, leaving them in the rank of being ruled forever.
In this way, we can see that the daily work of the "Artillery General" is only to press the firing button ceremonially after the artillerymen are busy loading the shells, and their clothes are shiny, and the appearance of the fat head and ears is also the same as the crowd. The toiling "artillery" formed a stark contrast.
Through a close-up of the outside of the town, we can confirm the fact that "there is no so-called enemy at all" ,
Based on this, when we re-examine some of the "bad behaviors" in this country ,
For example, if the wife cheats, the child is obsessed with music, the housewife is gossiping about right and wrong, lazy in class, etc., do you have a different opinion, or even ecstatic?
Yes, in this country that is suppressed by extreme restraints, these "bad behaviors" can also become symbols of "the brilliance of humanity" ,
It shows that human desires cannot be suppressed or eliminated, and that the free life belonging to the people will eventually come in the foreseeable future.
Interesting, right? Have fun, right?
The three animation creations are independent of each other, but have the same core theme, and after the "thresh and ridicule" , they did not forget to give an amazing and embodied expression to the word "hope" .
How can you miss such awesome animation works?
So, I hope you can enjoy the classic animation "Memories Trilogy".
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