A while ago, when I saw the title of the trailer at station B, I was already excited. When I was in college a few years ago, I knew the second uncle's "BLAME! ", can be said to have been admired for a long time, and later also chased the animated version of "Knight of Sidonia", and also read some of his short comics, such as "ABARA", this is bound to win a seat in your heart when you come up, And from time to time seduce you to come back and devote yourself to the series.
The manga version of BLAME! " has been praised and praised endlessly, and in my opinion, this is also worthy of its name. This work is a timeless classic of the cyberpunk flow in the sci-fi world. It creates a dream with an atmosphere soaked in the soul: the super-structure that reached the edge of the solar system after the collapse of civilization is decadent, huge, mixed, and oppressive. Hai, the post-modern apocalyptic landscape is magnificent, strange, vast and distant, all kinds of heavy metal, death metal, black metal style villains are morbidly tyrannical and distorted, as well as sitting or leaving the circle of the net ball, or entrenched or dormant or cruising or hunting. The electricity-based fisherman, the Silica Biological Control Bureau, the builders, the security police, the health and power agency, the East Asia Heavy Industry, and other ethnic groups and forces, everything collapsed, out of control, proliferation, and degeneration along with the legacy city where they were located. That is a kind of The edge and the erratic pleasure of suffocation or drug overdose... it became a different color band in the splendor of brilliance I was fortunate to have seen in my youth: rough and wild, dull rust and mildew with high Bright, indelible metallic grey.
It was a late winter night. I was in a high-rise dormitory of a college in a northern city. I was in the bed on the upper bunk. Looking out the window, only the LED scrolling screen of the telecom business hall was still working downstairs. The red light made people feel uncomfortable. There is a sense of fear and alienation in the world. The red light slides slowly, and a whole piece is reflected on the ceiling in front of me. My sight jumps over the corridors of the university town, and between the two buildings is a huge artificial lake, and then a large artificial lake. Rows of buildings and the faintly lit shop town outside the school, far away are the suburban trams or the lights of construction sites, a row of dots or a flash of dots... The mobile phone in my hand is "BLAME! ”, I imagined that after the orderly brilliance was lost under the control of the network, the city began to expand like a cancer cell, and the earth was the base of the sky to gradually engulf the solar system. In the desperate billions of years, civilization and technology have been lost, different ethnic groups and subspecies have been differentiated, and they have stupidly confronted each other, while at the same time with other bizarre and unnatural species that have grown during this period and the evolution of self-evolving beyond recognition after getting rid of human beings. The upper machines contend and restrain each other in the endless labyrinth, kill and hide, invade and resist, but more often they curl up in their respective corners, exuding a gloomy aura, maintaining their own weird operation... Time The huge expansion of space and the huge metamorphosis and mutation of things give people a feeling of strangeness, daze and powerlessness, behind which is permeated with a charming and detached beauty that belongs to the pain.
I imagine that Wuhai is walking alone in the tragic and solemn although no one knows where I am going, searching for the genetic factor at the end of the network, for a vague possibility of salvation, for countless years, the time is too long to even forget The original purpose was to be forced to fight non-stop on the long road, leaving only cold laws and stress reflexes to survive, and finally completely reduced to a cold-blooded beast and a tool of killing. The long time has made the memory structure increasingly complex and incomprehensible, and finally it has become dispensable, making one's own demeanor indistinguishable, and making everything irrelevant, that distant glorious mission to restore order. It has long been blurred and deformed. I don’t know whether it is a fabrication of misunderstanding in the middle or the indoctrination of the ruling situation at the beginning. There are only endless hitting, dodging, falling, climbing, killing the enemy, advancing... The cool guy who makes people love, miss, and go crazy for it.
When the figure of Wuhai appeared on the TV next to Aunt Xiong and the intestines in "Knights of Sidonia" again, the mood began to surge beyond the surprise. Most of the elements such as suspenseful and mysterious creatures are in the middle of my mind, and even the elements that I didn't feel before gave me a good impression (more than the monster girl and the elements in front of it), but, like those old fans of the second uncle who take the serious school as a classic, this In the series "BLAME! "The status of "right master" remains unchanged in my heart.
The theatrical version is actually a little disappointing at the beginning. First, the fisherman apprentice team is a little green school legacy, and secondly, the characters and plots seem to have a bit of "children's books" meaning - it's pale, maybe there are two previous ones. The success of "Knights of Sidonia" is based on the continued adherence to commercialization? Or is it just a habit brought over from the last two movies? Fortunately, it got better and better in the future, impeccable, and the highlights continued. The amount of the academy is not too large. It is natural and uncomfortable to put in the film, and the depth is gradually presented.
The first cluster of bright spots is where Wuhai appeared before the opening. Wuhai rescued Zulu, who was like a swaying flame in the chase of the expulsion system. It started from legends and public expectations in a play. The way to show up, earn enough adrenaline, needless to say - although it's a bit of a routine, I just eat this set, what I mainly want to talk about is the following paragraph of getting to know each other, Wu Hai "Let me see your eyes" On the surface, it is to scan whether these fisherman apprentices have genetic factors at the end of the network. In fact, it alludes to Wuhai's paranoia, kindness, and trust in humans, and behind it is alienation, hostility, and suspicion towards machines (in the comics, Wuhai is right The indiscriminate aggression of Silica creatures is in the same vein), and a large part of this is due to the machine itself has been out of control. Humans express emotions through their eyes, and emotions are the most intuitive feature that distinguishes humans from other things. Emotions to a large extent represent the shortcomings of human beings that are unstable, easy to control, lose accuracy, and even commit all kinds of big mistakes. In the eyes of machines, they may be stupid, blind, insignificant and limited, but at the same time, this is a kind of A precious beauty - just like Zulu took off his helmet and faced Wuhai after a struggle, showing the courage to take risks, his unassuming and generous, his trust and shyness in Wuhai, and his refusal to admit defeat. The stubbornness and fortitude, the fear of just getting out of danger, etc... It is full of youthful power, amazing and moving. Here is a tribute to the contradictory unity of human emotion.
Also appearing here is the music that runs through the whole film, which is light and soothing. This music is accompanied by Wuhai's performance of "paranoia towards human beings" every time - again and again when human beings are in danger, they do it without hesitation. Strong support, and play. This kind of paranoia that cares about human beings, and even directly belongs to human beings and specially emphasized, is more than the same as going through countless years for an ethereal possibility of salvation.
This music is light and soothing, with the melancholy after the transformation of the world, and the calm, unchanging persistence like the weather and rain (by the way, this music is called "Wu Hai").
The second cluster of bright spots is slightly scattered, starting from the fishermen chatting with Wuhai about the legendary past, until the Wuhai Xibo fishermen team camped on the way to the automatic factory. The rich and varied landscape changes of the legacy city in this passage successfully evoked part of my dream. Looking back now, I should have started to indulge in a special fantasy of my own as early as a child. A little bit of dust. The fantasy is a huge, labyrinthine home, spaceship or other vehicle, often with various complex structures and facilities, all connected to and governed by the console of an important room or cabin, outside It is endless darkness, unknown, fear and danger. I hide in the labyrinth and enjoy the warmth of standing with my back against the wall. Walking deeper and deeper into the labyrinth is about the satisfaction of surviving and escaping from the outside world. The interior view, the console may symbolize the intention to regain control of the interior and the exterior—and these feelings are inextricably intertwined. But this is just my analysis of myself now. After a long time, the memory is fickle, so it may not be completely correct. Years later, this fantasy first came into contact with "BLAME! ”, and once again pondered in the three-dimensional labyrinth of black stains, rust, and all kinds of “illegal” erections in my mind (this time it seemed a bit steampunk, and mixed with the double Bunk beds and ladders), in the post-theatrical recollection, I have clarified all of this over the years, but it may not be accurate, but this escape from the labyrinth fantasy and "BLAME! "Part of the dream should be intertwined or overlapping. That's right.
Having survived for too long in a superstructure that did not see the light of day, after the remnants of human beings experienced a wave of colonization (perhaps because of the killing of machines, or because the homeland after proliferation was no longer suitable for survival), the electric-based fisherman race was formed. So much truth is lost in history that they forget that their ancestors were once the masters of the city, and even find it inconceivable—let alone later learn that there is a possibility of regaining control. This group of residents has lived here for generations after the pioneers found a safe home for the defense grid left over from the experiments of the Xibo Gang. The Dianji fisherman was groping for survival in the vastness of the front and rear, and looked at Guangyu with doubts. The romance and sadness of this setting is like the archaeological team who is lost in the wilderness and has nowhere to go. The archaeological team finds the holiday lights left by the prehistoric civilization in the cave of the wind-eroded landform. It is filled with the joy of everyone returning to their hometowns from all over the world during the festive season.
Most of the memory in the meme has been lost, but the memory in the gene has been preserved. As early as hundreds of millions of years ago, during the fishing and hunting period when almost all technologies, including agriculture, had not yet begun, the attachment to fire was deeply imprinted in the soul of human ancestors. Sacrifice and prayer... Freely release and feel the passion and dynamism of life, and the passion and dynamism are just like this lively fire. Hundreds of millions of years later, the threats, exclusion and oppression faced by human beings no longer come from nature, but from their own creations. Naturally, almost instinctively, they sought solace in the same way. The light of the fire rose again, and it was still alive. This is the loneliness, ignorance, helplessness and pitifulness of human beings. In the chaotic cloud map of the world, it looks like an abandoned child.
The third and final cluster of bright spots is clustered in the alternate electronic world at the end of the credits. Xibo has experienced many hardships and dangers, the death of countless new and old partners, from the destroyed block to the failure of the rotten temple, to the adventure of rebuilding the synthesis terminal in the automatic factory after two thousand years of waiting, returning to the rotten temple to insert the synthesis Factor's key to authority finally re-established the connection, but it was still destroyed by the Trojan horse plan of the security guard Shanake... In the end, Xibo also failed to reach the network ball - the one who has lost countless epochs seems to exist only in the myth of the remote. Aperture of brilliance and order, but only reached the alternate electronic world that connects the network ball and the base reality (even a corner of the world is so beautiful), and even reaching here is only temporary and has no right to go deeper, because reality Nakanishibo's body has been destroyed by Shana Ke, but it is only because of the delay and acceleration effects in virtual reality that it can remain here for a while, and because of the absence of the body, this "afterimage" has no authority. But even so, she is still working hard to save people to the greatest extent, and Gao Guang's tear-jerking highlights.
The terminal administrator here has a very distinctive character. The streamlined body and wiggling tentacles of mollusks are like virtual life forms born autonomously (or on the basis of original programming) in the information ocean, and the faces of human beings look like Advanced intelligence has evolved, and the geometric information clusters floating around seem to be equivalent to single-celled protists in the real world, silently telling that this place has been separated from human beings for too long, and a unique "second nature" has been derived. . At the same time, the administrator's face has the same style as the masks of the high-ranking people and the faces of some supporting roles in the second uncle's other works. The administrator's body is also like a distant relative of Qijuzi on the evolutionary tree. The aesthetic unity of the second uncle series and the sense of coordination of the whole series.
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