In the civilian spacecraft BEBOP, there are shredded pork with green peppers, Matsuzaka beef that is mutated enough to run and sting, there are gifts from Ryugu, there are wonderful mushrooms, there are clever puppies and geniuses with limbs like noodles. Children...but there is no Valentine's Day.
Fei Valentine, when she lives on BEBOP with this name taken from Valentine's Day, she understands that this name does not actually belong to her. And when she finally retrieved her memory, she found that she no longer knew where she belonged.
Counting from 2002, this is the third time I have written CB here, and it is also the third time. I can't help but to mention Fei first. Half of the character, background, and encounters of the characters are directly revealed in the work, and half are caused by the audience or readers themselves. So sometimes, the theme will be dig deeper than the original author wants to express; some Sometimes, the characters we like will be over-beautified and distorted by ourselves; sometimes, in retrospect or recall a long time later, we will suddenly realize many things we didn't find at the beginning.
For example, in fact, as long as you think about saving others by yourself, you will find that, "Philip Valentin", she also understands that as long as she reports it to someone, she will definitely be judged as a "pseudonym" by the other party. But it was the only thing she had at that time.
And she is obviously not the only one who is caught in this predicament.
The bird's nest head said: I look into the past with one eye and into the future with the other.
Otherwise why, Jeter, who has resigned for many years, always remembers his nickname "black dog" when he was a policeman, otherwise why; even if he was betrayed, Culien is still so obsessed with the years of fighting with Bishas; otherwise, why, Spike wants Look at the past time with one eye forever.
In the eyes of Fei, who had nothing to cling to or pretended to be clinging at that time, were these feelings respectable persistence, privacy without understanding, or stubbornness unique to stupid men? When I watched CB at the beginning of the year, in the eyes of me who might be too young at the time, these stubbornness were a bit hard to understand. At that time, I bought a VCD with three episodes and one disc with "Evil Man Jett" written on the disc. A lot of OP and ED were omitted. The translation was barely understandable, and the trailer was only one-third of the content. And in a certain surviving trailer, Jeter described the story about the black dog and the black dog's former partner who were bitten and not let go in a low and calm voice: "Don't look at children, and don't look at young people. ... the old man must watch it."
That was a remark that I thought was quite dull at the time, so I often skipped it. It was used by the cowboy Andy, Matsuzaka beef, the spaceship full of mushrooms, Spikeley’s fists and Fei’s video tape, etc. The impressive plot burying the score is not revealed. Now when I re-watch CB, some Japanese or English lines whose meaning has been distorted by the subtitles can already be understood by myself. Many distortions and flaws in the picture that were unknowingly at the time can be easily picked out. As for the story of Jeter, it is also I finally saw a completely different taste:
whether it’s his partner or his ex-wife, the betrayals and deviations about Jeter are so gloomy, dull, and boring because they are too realistic, because they can happen to you every day. By my side-the difference may only be limited to whether the person has a gun or not, whether it is an arm or something else. From the undulating melody of "ELM", from the nostalgic and tacit appearance of lighting a cigarette for the old partner, from the pocket watch that has stopped time, what is revealed is exhaustion and helplessness from reality.
If Ed and Ain are fairy tales, Spike’s existence is a legend, and Fei’s experience is like a novel, then Jet’s story can only be classified as a documentary. Because they were too realistic, I couldn't understand them at the time-of course I don't dare to say now, I fully understand them now.
The little girl said: No matter where you are or what you are doing, I will support you. Come on, myself.
What is certain is that since 2000 when I first came into contact with CB, some feelings have not changed. For example, I like Yamadera Koichi. For example, when Spike died, he was a little emotional but not sad-he was the kind of man who chose that. The road, so everything is of course irretrievable. It goes straight to a stagger on the stairs and raises his hand with a "bang"; for example, as long as you see the videotape of Fei, the turbulent time will be unstoppable. Well out of the eyes.
As for what has changed, it should be no longer delusional to put one's favorite character into the fantasy of a new beginning and starting from scratch, but finally learned to watch and experience their plight, their stubbornness, and their stubbornness. Persistent. Those unpleasant, embarrassing, painful, unbearable past events that are absolutely not allowed to be forgotten are always lively and noisy decorated by American cowboys, Chinese Kung Fu, Feng Shui fortune-telling, Wu Yusen-style white pigeons, and jazz blues rock music. The deepest part of the science fiction film is about to move, surging underneath.
I think that a film like "COWBOY BEBOP" is not about the knife marks on the wood, which can be immortalized immediately, but the pigment falling into the water. The more precipitated and rippling, the deeper the dye.
So when watching the theater version of "Gate to Heaven", I couldn’t share the festive atmosphere with Ed who was holding a pumpkin head. I can tell myself that when I open the old album, there will always be one or two photos that I haven't found before, but the expressions on the photos are as flat as the people in the past, and there was no future in sight-"Gate to Heaven" This episode, like many stories in the TV version, once again highlights the character's personality, but for the main storyline, it is as irrelevant as ever. Watanabe Shinichiro is too slippery, let alone after the TV version is over. He refused to let us take a look at the prequel.
And this kind of complaint is actually just a small grievance: if he is willing to make a prequel sequel or something, we will definitely watch it, but the previous episodes revealed in the original TV version are enough, and it doesn’t matter whether the postscript is there or not— —As we all understand, that seems to be the least persistent Fei, Fei who once had the most ordinary and happiest past among all people, Fei who fired several shots before Spike left BEBOP for the last time, she has never been Fei Valentine can only be Fei Valentine, because before and after, we can no longer imagine-
after all, compared with life, the biggest difference and the biggest advantage of the story is that it will eventually end. .
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