This is a work that I used to catch up with fast-forward in junior high school. Although afterwards I thought it was because I was ignorant and couldn’t understand the wonderful features of this work, but now that I finished the second brush many years later (in fact, it was the first two weeks), I didn’t dare to make any conclusions about this work. evaluation of.
The British boy Lelouch gained incredible power from the mysterious girl CC. GEASS, the ability to give orders to anyone and make them absolutely surrendered, Lelouch decided to use GEASS to destroy the British Empire. In order to avenge his mother and create a happy world for his sister Nanaly, even if he knew that the Emperor of Britain was waiting for him in front of him, that is, his father.
The above is a summary of the plot that comes with the work, in fact, the main line of the story is also true. Although Lelouch is a prince, he can only be sent to live in secret in Japan with his sister. Subsequently, Japan went to war with the British Empire and was defeated, becoming a colony and losing its name. Lelouch used the power of the revolutionaries in Japan, his outstanding wisdom and strategy, and GEASS to hide his identity as the king of the enemy. Wearing a mask of zero, he built his own organization, army, and cooperation with each other step by step. The British Empire fought to achieve its goals.
The overall works are excellent. The paintings are done by CLAMP. The figures are slender, beautiful in appearance, and gorgeous in style. The plot is smooth and compact, without leaving the water, there is basically no nonsense in the two seasons. Does the music feel mediocre? But in fact, I think the concert of Hiroyuki Sawano is very compatible with this work. There are many elements in the whole work, such as love, reasoning, combat, machine warfare, and campus. However, "Lelouch the Rebellion" is most praised or so popular for two reasons. The first is its wonderful plot. , And the second is its plump character portrayal. Discuss one by one next.
The first is the plot-you can guess the operability of the plot from the setting of the story. Provoking a war with a world power alone, hiding the identity of the enemy king, Lelouch's high IQ setting, and the ability to absolutely command, each single point can be used to write a very long article. There are many turning points in the development of the work, and it will be impossible to say that there are every episode. Moreover, the plot is coherent, the plot is compact, and the turning point occurs very quickly, so when watching it, one link is followed by another, which is quite exciting.
However, it is only limited to general surprise and admiration. Apart from the ending, I have not been able to feel the shocking content of this work. I didn’t feel it on the first brush. Maybe it was because I watched more casually at the time, and I was not shocked by the second brush. Maybe it was because I was spoiled by my past self. See if I can prove the reason why I failed to gain some experience from Lelouch's work.
The turn of the plot, or reversal, is one of the important designs that surprise the audience. The surprise of the reversal comes from the breaking of the original expectations. The greater the degree of reversal, the greater the surprise, because it has broken the more solid expectations. For example, a person singles out one army to win and one army to defeat another army. In terms of reversal, the former is definitely more surprising. But the surprise definitely depends not only on the reversal itself, but also on how the reversal happened. This may be one thing that affects the surprise experience even more, otherwise the protagonist's opening of the second boss will not be so criticized.
There are so many reversals in Lelouch, the weak wins the strong, the few wins the more, the identity is exposed, and the ability is exposed. A lot of them sound like people expect, but in fact the specific way of turning is a bit single and psychological. There are relatively few contests on top or strategy, or in other words, more straightforward. It is often a one-touch solution to the battle, rather than a confrontation between masters. For example, during the battle of Narita Mountain Range, a landslide AOE reversed the situation; in the first season of the decisive battle in Tokyo, a move was used to reverse the situation; in the battle against Orange, a trap was set to solve the opponent. . . There are many developments like this. One of the reasons for the lack of shock is that the strategy adopted by Lelouch is not close to the people, that is, it is out of touch with the life of the general audience. For example, the second season detonates the methane on the bottom of the sea or something. First of all, the design of this underground trap suddenly pops out. It is specially prepared to reverse the situation, and the second is that such a strategy itself is completely beyond the predictions that the general audience may have. Although it is said that surprises come from breaking expectations, breaking expectations must be an understandable breaking expectations. To put it simply, it means "black under the light", but many of the turning points in Lelouch are no longer "black under the light" but can be called "black outside the window". Surprises that cannot be accepted, on the contrary, are in danger of being treated as irrational words. Another reason is GEASS, this bug move often saves a lot of wits and courage, because the opponent does not know this ability and the IQ contest itself does not hold. In general, my impression is that although the development of the plot has many twists and turns, it is not shocking and fails to impress me. The plot of Lelouch is like the electrocardiogram of the patient when he is dying. It fluctuates once every other time, and the ups and downs stop immediately. The whole work is a continuous rotation of small ups and downs. The "Death Note", which is often used for comparison, lasts for a long time each time, and it will rise and fall many times in the same ups and downs. One wins by quantity and the other wins by quality. Can accumulation of quantity bring about qualitative improvement? At least to me, it doesn't seem to have that effect.
Of course, you might argue that the reason why Lelouch’s turn is so simple and straightforward is that a lot of the process is omitted and not shown. Then I think this kind of omission is the biggest failure. Because which audience refers to the cause and effect of watching the story? Just tell you the cause and effect, and you can finish Lelouch's work in 2 minutes. It is the enrichment of the process that makes the story full. And the work itself has to build Lelouch’s high IQ image and make the work into a wonderful wit drama, but omits the part of wit. Isn’t it the biggest failure?
In fact, whether a lot of processes are omitted is still a question, because the GEASS design itself will simplify many things. In case of trouble Geass, you must use strategic Geass. The high IQ settings of GEASS and Lelouch are in conflict. Because to reflect the strength of a person's wisdom, one must pass his strategy, and the existence of GEASS often simplifies the process of a large number of strategies. You can make assumptions about Lelouch's use of GEASS in all his works. Wouldn't it be more exciting if he used other methods instead of GEASS here? Lelouch saved Suzaku, did he find ways to save it more exciting, or did he add a GEASS hat to it? In Lelouch's decisive battle in Tokyo, is it a gradual and exciting battle? Or use GEASS to set off the table wonderfully? The answer is obvious. And this skill is different from Death Note. Lelouch is much less restricted. Although from the conditions of use, one needs to look directly at one person and one needs a name, the difference in difficulty coefficient is not intuitive, but it is given from the protagonist or the outside world. Judging from her own constraints, Ye Shenyue is undoubtedly facing more difficulties. He refuses the Eye of Death, he must use the method of heart palsy to sanction and this has long been exposed. He has long been a suspect under surveillance. Every time a person dies may leave clues, and the death note can only kill. There cannot be any new usage. Lelouch’s constraints are not obvious. First of all, it is a great advantage if the ability is not exposed. Second, there is no specific restriction. Basically, he will not say anything (direct orders and absolutely obey), and then he will not use it against friendly forces. , That's it, and the method of use is more varied, except for the remote killing of the death note, it covers all, and it has been greatly expanded. Although GEASS has been used for many times under Lulu Xiu, highlighting the precise and appropriate timing and method of its use, but after all, GEASS has limited too much space for the character's personal intelligence, which is really a mistake.
Therefore, there is huge potential in the setting, but the work itself is not well reflected. Although when I watched it, I felt it was very good, but the impression I left was not deep. On the whole, the plot is high in the middle, which is a masterpiece, but it cannot be given a high name.
The second point is about the characters. There are many characters in this work. It is true that the character image is very plump. You can write an article for basically every main character. The twisted Suzaku has been scolded for a long time; CC goddess, her mysterious and unpredictable has doubled her charm; Karen, Xia Li, Rollo, Nanali and so on. The popularity of this work is inseparable from the individual charm of each character, but Lelouch is recognized as the most shining character among them.
What exactly is the characterization of Lelouch? In fact, the plot of the whole drama that I just complained about has already reflected some of my understanding of him-at least he is not so touching in terms of resourcefulness. In other words, he is indeed resourceful, but he failed to perform well in the whole show.
My overall understanding of Lelouch is not a demon against the world, not a frenzied executioner, nor a black-bellied prince. In my opinion, Lelouch is an ordinary person full of humanity. He is full of humanity from beginning to end. Although GEASS prevented his wisdom from being manifested, Lelouch's human side was basically reflected through the non-use of GEASS-"inhibition". The most obvious is that Lelouch can order the enemy to die without hesitation, but he never imposes GEASS on his comrades. This is where he is most contradictory, because absolute orders are the most effective way to achieve his goals, but he has been sticking to it. He claimed that for Nanali, he wanted to be an enemy of the whole world and stepped onto the road of Shura, but before the Soul of Zero, he had never regarded his comrades as pawns on the chessboard-he did not dare to challenge the value of equality. . He restrained the powerful magic power of GEASS, this kind of persistence is precisely his insistence on the bottom line of human nature.
Lelouch outside of GEASS is also very ordinary. He has too many inseparable emotions that will affect his goals, his friendship with Suzaku, and his guilt toward Xia Li, Yu Fei, and finally Rollo; He will be overwhelmed by setbacks and lost. Do you remember her downfall when she learned that Nanali became the governor of Japan? He will regret it too. Do you remember the tears she shed when she killed Yuffi for her GEASS runaway? Although Lelouch was crazy, he was so ordinary. That's why he can resolutely embark on the Zero Soul Soul Song after he has experienced everything and tasted everything in life. In my opinion, only at the end of the Zero Soul Rehabilitation Song, can Lelouch truly embark on the path of Shura.
. . . Why did you feel that you didn't say anything good? All in all, in my opinion, Lelouch did not wear the image of a very great legend. His nature is so ordinary. If you want to say that he is great, it is probably his strength. He is alone, facing countless setbacks and blows, facing one after another tragedy caused by him, few people can comfort him, give him encouragement and support. He persevered, and for the final purpose, he became a liar again and again, deceiving others, and even more deceived himself. Finally succeeded in deceiving the world. ——This is absolutely difficult for us to bear, but he took it, and it was taken by one person, and completed the whole process. This is probably his greatness.
By the way, my favorite characters are Rollo and Karen.
In the end, I complained about the soul of the soul song under Zero. Although I said that the result shocked me, it was mainly because I did not expect that it would end with the death of Lelouch. Regarding Lelouch's deception of the whole world, I actually didn't get much of the effect. It is explained in the drama that the principle is to concentrate the hatred of the world on Lelouch, and then to wipe out all the hatred with Lelouch's death. I am a little hard to grasp the rationality of this matter. Although I also know that the best factor to unite people is the common enemy, what can one person do to make the whole world hate him? Absolute military power? Dictatorship? My understanding of the human nature of many people is that it’s nothing to do with it. Even if dictatorship is repressed by military, it may be difficult to arouse people’s hatred as long as it does not affect daily life. In this case, such a song "Zhenzhen" How will "Soul Song" play? Personally, it may sound heartless, but if many people die in the world, but it will not affect my life, then my heart will remain calm. In fact, isn't it like this in the present world? Outside of our daily lives, there are still wars and disasters in the world. Every day countless lives die, but will there be a ripple in our hearts because of this? It doesn't seem to be. These events are not like throwing a stone into the water, splashing, splashing and rippling, but more like air merging into the water, without any change. Of course there is still a difference between the two. Lelouch’s Soul Relief is similar to telling you that the disasters and wars in the world are caused by someone, but. . . How big will the impact on us be? I don't have any sense of worry, I really can't imagine it.
However, even if it is established, how long can this peace be? This is a big question, but at least, what Lelouch hopes to bring Nanali's world to peace, this wish, probably will surely be realized.
In short, I would like to summarize my evaluation of this drama: rich characters, beautiful painting style, and high overall quality. As far as the story is concerned, the whole film will look very exciting, but there will be a lot of problems when it comes to scrutiny. The plot is ups and downs, but it may not leave a lot of shock. "Lelouch the Rebellious" can be regarded as a wonderful work, but. . . It's generally overblown.
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