Werewolf is an animated movie that I didn't intend to know after being promoted on youtube. It was produced by Production IG, and Mamoru Oshii, who was the director of the attacking mobile team, acted as the screenwriter. It's a depressing and tragic work, but it's very photogenic. As an animated film it is of a high standard. The story begins with a riot that is always reminiscent of Japan's own left-wing riots of the last century. The male protagonist is a special team, a person like a wild wolf, and the special team is an organization like a wild wolf. During his riot, he was responsible for killing the armed rioters in the underground waterway, and during the killing, he met a girl, and he did not kill but hesitated, and the girl blew up the bag in front of him. of explosives, after which he was investigated. And the heroine is pretending to be the girl's sister, knowing the male protagonist on purpose. She is just a chess piece that the hostile political forces of the special forces deliberately arranged for the male protagonist. The hero and heroine have been talking about a dark version of the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the movie, and the two have been switching between Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf. This is the process of struggle. Which of the forces behind the hero and heroine will win? And under this struggle, they developed a distorted relationship. But this is also obviously a tragedy. The story is always sad and depressing. The fate of the male protagonist makes people feel that the individual is in the vortex of struggle, and he will inevitably be unable to help himself, and this vortex will force you to struggle, but in the end, you will still be led to this inevitable result, shooting a certain side of your heart.
In the late 1960s, a series of movements occurred, anti-Vietnam War, anti-security, anti-conservative government, and then produced the Shinjuku riot, the Narita Airport Struggle, and the Dongda Yasuda Lecture Hall incident. These movements are full of fiery redness and blood, which is the bright side, but it is more about the struggle of various political forces, and the struggle within the organization is more complicated. In the work of the human wolf, it focuses on the description of the Japanese political struggle after the war. The individuals under the organization are described as the pawns of the organization, the wolf of the organization. The description of this struggle is very dark, and it will make people feel that people cannot enter any Organization, otherwise it will become a pawn. This is connected with the political struggle of the year, and an alternate story is used to reflect the reality of the year. Japanese animation will often depict the movement of the 1960s, but it always implicitly denies those pasts, which is the nostalgia and suspicion of those things in that generation. And these doubts and denials are injected into the animation. It characterizes all political struggles as dark. Erasing everyone's thoughts, motives, and ideals in those struggles denies the existential legitimacy of those struggles, and denies the bright side of those movements. But the dark side is also true. This makes us reflect deeply on the role and struggle of individuals in the struggle.
In fact, I haven't finished writing it yet, I will change it when I have time.
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