Who is the delusional agent? A baseball boy? Or that pet dog that collects thousands of pets? I think delusions are rooted in people's hearts, from fear and from escape, but with an agent, we have to face the reality directly!
1. Reality and fantasy: a passage between two worlds
Director Jin Min created two extreme worlds in this animation. Let's call one the outer world and the other the inner world. In the outer world, there is a "baseball boy" who wears golden boots and holds a curved golden baseball bat. Whenever someone is oppressed by the outer world, the baseball boy will appear with a bat, and a bat will knock people out. Knocked down, and the pressure suddenly disappeared. It's hard to say whether this baseball boy who stunned people indiscriminately is doing good things or bad things. Because it is precisely because of the boy's blow, the people in the film entered a new inner world, and that world is full of beautiful things.
The designer Sagittarius Yukiko , who was squeezed by the company , looked like a frog, and the magazine reporter Akio Kawazu , who was oppressed by his father's medical expenses and urged by the company, and Yuichi Tai, a primary school student who was swallowed up by vanity and greed because he thought he was excellent , has a dual personality. But the graduate assistant/assistance worker Harumi Chono is caught in it . There is also Hirukawa Masami , a policeman who was threatened by the gang boss to go on the road of robbery , and Hirukawa Masami has another hobby of peeping at his daughter, so his daughter Hirukawa Michiko was also swallowed by her father's voyeuristic desire.
They were all squeezed to a certain extreme by reality, and they couldn't get out of it, and the baseball boy knocked them down at this time, but instead gave them a key to a new world, a man without stress and worry world. The director's depiction of this inner world is slow and not as direct as the world of Baseball Boys. We didn't feel it until the story of Mitsuko Hirukawa. Maybe the inner world also has huge problems. After being hit by a baseball boy, Hirukawa Mitsuko lost her memory. Yes, she released all the stress, but at the same time she lost the real, tangible emotions of the real world.
So, which world is the real world?
2. The Boundaries of Love: Being Oppressed and Escaped
In my opinion, these two worlds are not real worlds, but exaggerated and enlarged worlds based on the human hearts in the real world. The external world in which the baseball boy ran rampant is a world formed by the anxiety and helplessness, extremes and fears of people after being squeezed. And that inner world full of beauty is a kind of sanctuary that people find in their hearts to escape reality. So, in a sense, it was the people who were being squeezed who "summoned" the baseball teens themselves, and being knocked down was exactly what they wanted, because they wanted to escape, to get into that fantasy inner world.
Everything looks good, there is only one problem, as the "calling" crowd grows, the baseball kid deteriorates like a proliferation of malignant tumors, he no longer stuns someone, but instead kills someone. personal. He is no longer a schoolboy wearing golden boots, but has become like a giant like a monster, and his feed is the fear of reality and the yearning for escape in people's hearts.
People fell one after another, and the two police officers, Inspector Pig Keiichi and Inspector Ma Ting Guanghong , faced off against this terrifying young man . As far as these two people are concerned, director Jin Min has portrayed Ma Ting as a superman-like character, some middle-aged, but with the mission of saving the world. And even more full is the detective Zhushou. Because the detective has never been able to catch the baseball boy, and he saw the boy kill his own imitator, he was still in his own police station and had no choice but to lose his job. In the same way, he was also squeezed and forced by reality. And he looked down on this "distorted world" from the bottom of his heart, until in the end he also compromised and entered a two-dimensional world that was all pieces of paper but was what he yearned for. The only difference is that he has love, the love between him and his wife.
The inspector's wife is a sickly person, but the inspector loves her wholeheartedly, even if the wife is barren. It should be said that his wife's fear and desire to escape are more abundant than ordinary people, but the detective has been encouraging him. When the inspector lost his job, his wife felt that the family was difficult to maintain, and even thought of dying in the past, and the inspector said to her seriously:
"Don't say anything like that. You just want to escape, you can't escape from reality. The idea that you can be saved by escape is just an illusion. No matter how painful it is, you must face the reality and overcome it together."
Perhaps the detective himself was difficult to overcome, but he encouraged his wife. So in the 11th episode "Entry Prohibition", director Jin Min portrayed his wife as the only baseball boy who can defeat the monster. A frail and sickly woman, there is no middle school magic, but only the courage to face reality, and this courage is given to him by her husband and is based on love. And it was this mutual love that made the detective finally understand:
"The reality of losing my home is my real home."
At that moment, the detective was really handsome.
Though it’s a cliché when you think about it, love is what saves the world. But director Jin Min's genius is to use a story full of magic and realism to illustrate this truth. Of course, it is mixed with the director's good at exploring fear, vanity, escape, kindness, love and other most essential things of human nature. . For me, it can only be like in the fifth episode of the animation "Saint Guard" (a very second episode), after entering that fantasy world, the detective knelt in the snow and was at a loss. Come to appreciate the director's performance, the difference is that it's not like the detective's complaint, but just wants to say, it's too awesome.
3. About Director Jin Min
But the reality is often really cruel. In 2010, Director Jin Min died of pancreatic cancer. And the director left us the final work is an unfinished " Dream Machine " and a touching suicide note. I still remember the first time I saw the suicide note, I was in tears when I read the end of the letter. After watching this drama, I instinctively remembered what the director wrote at the end of his suicide note:
"I'm going one step ahead."
Like Inspector, the director also has a loving wife. Hearing the doctor say that the director has advanced pancreatic cancer, his wife said to him:
"I will accompany you to the end."
But unlike in the animation, where the wife takes the first step, the reality is that the director has not fought against the god of death in the end. As said in the suicide note, how much I want the director to be like " The Godfather of Tokyo ", because of all kinds of coincidences, it still remains in our world, let us kneel and appreciate his imagination. Unfortunately, no more.
Back to animation. Because it is an animation, you don’t have to worry too much about the box office, so the director completely let go of his hands and feet. As a supervisor, he made the whole film not stick to one format, and even have different styles of painting. Complain about people who don't work hard in reality. I have seen the director's " My Dreaming Road ". The book mainly tells about the production process of his first animated film "Perfect Blue" (that is, " The House of Weima "). In order to make this film, the director really The only thing is that the scalp is numb, and in "Delusion", the director also really ridiculed it, and even used the 10th episode "マロミまどろみ" ("Sleeping Malume") to express his disapproval of this kind of behavior. It's enough to think about people's dissatisfaction, but it also reveals some cute little complaints, little poisonous tongues.
The episode that is relatively deviated from the main line is the eighth episode "Ming る い Family Project" ("Happy Family Project") mentioned above. Three netizens who want to commit suicide meet together, an old grandfather, a gay strong man, and a little girl. Of course, when the grandfather and the strong man saw that it was a little girl, they ran wildly, trying to get rid of the little girl. But it didn't happen, not only did he not get rid of the little girl, but he couldn't even die. He entered the secret room and wanted to breathe carbon monoxide to commit suicide, but the house just happened to be demolished. I wanted to commit suicide by jumping off the subway, but was taken first (here is really laughing). Hanged from a tree, but crushed the branches. A chance encounter with a baseball boy, aha, the opportunity has come. But the baseball boy ran away wildly when he encountered these people.
Until the old man found out the truth. The three of them no longer have a shadow, that is, they have died, which is really sad and happy. But realizing this, the grandfather suddenly became enlightened and formed a happy trio, so let's go on wandering happily like this. Although it is a bit off from the main line, it is also telling a sad story, but it is really loving.
In the end, I really hope that Director Jin Min can be as safe and happy in that world as the happy trio.
4. Appendix: Dream Talk
I like the words in the dream report very much. Thanks to Tong Jiawei of station B for collecting the netizens, and posting them here:
The rabbit in the shadow of the moon jumps and the red eyes of the black rabbit stare at the horizon The fish that climbs ashore is trampled by cows very hard Ryugu Castle where the butterfly lives is a distant dream Who is led away by cows The golden fox snickers secretly
The wild flowers on the grassland are just a kaleidoscope of butterflies in the sun tearing off their masks and showing their lips in the shadows.
The voice of money, the saint of gold and silver
Under the guidance of the red light, the present and past branch roads are astonishing Hinomaru fan I don't know when the princess who was caught by evil in the weeds was surprised when she defeated the dragon with a holy sword and opened it
The outline of the incident is that when the moonlight and morning dew disappeared on the Izu Peninsula, the mantis catching cicadas and the oriole responded to the calls of the surrounding, where are the golden boots going I hope tomorrow is a good weather
Listening to the words of the sages from the gap of Kanto science, following the footsteps of the fox, and wandering a grass of sorrow and resentment, welcome to the famous detective
Further ahead is the perilous road. The only people who can keep up are the ** seagulls, zebras and winter peaks, wandering back and forth without a trace. Sitting around the stove for a while, happy, withered trees add brilliance to the mountains. Why do crows cry
The numbers jumped out of the mouth, the catfish jumped up and fell into the water, I fell in love with the feeling of love, moths and worms sweating oil, ants wiped their eyes, and the books written by wild ducks are still sad and longevity
Time-lapse mischief The king of Azuchi is in charge of power, the monkey entertains the fox, weaving the dream, the hands of fire on both sides, holding the treasure, and running away.
Rumors are spread all over the place where the golden boots are headed, the lost dog and the lion looking at each other, the maze with no return, the beckoning dog standing in the hometown, rescue or deception
The unicorns are ready to go, most of them are in groups, and they are guided by the voice of the sages. The ancients under the moon hold the holy sword and ride the heavenly horse. Is anyone calling?
The sins of the people in the darkness that finally appeared The cries from the source of the red burning purgatory The stone Buddha of the day forever and the golden boots no longer make a sound The final words of the dream bubble
It seems that the story is about to end. After the reincarnation, it starts to pick up the cornerstones and pile them up. There is no mystery that cannot be solved. There is no mystery that cannot be solved. So goodbye everyone
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