who are we? What are we busy for? Have we grown up? How much do we need to pay for this utilitarian realm?
These are the philosophical speculations of the director hidden in the film.
I don't watch a lot of Oshii Mamoru's movies. The previous Ghost in the Shell was a grand postmodern setting. Although the scene this time is in the early stage of the industrial revolution, it still tells a story with a postmodern theme, but the director's interpretation of the film's soul has obviously become an introspective, microscopic spy.
The outline of the story is actually relatively simple, and the narrative technique is slightly obscure. It tells about the living environment and inner struggle of a group of artificial humans used by war companies in a peaceful world. Maybe people who haven't watched the movie will find such a plot boring. But the director downplayed the factors of technology and war, and didn't explain much about it. In the film, we can only see the living conditions and ordinary people of that group of people. From the perspective of the first person, the real content hidden under the curtain is slowly revealed, and the audience is slowly allowed to bring themselves into the world view of the film, so as to refract or reflect the real world of everyone's heart. It's not easy. The lines and details in the film are more natural. The sensitivity, restraint and stillness unique to Japanese directors.
They are called the Eternal Sons by the people of the world, which is nothing more than a good name for exploited pieces. They will not grow up and be bred to be used for war, to experience and accomplish things that people of ordinary times cannot. Fighting is their job. In addition to work, they, like us, can go to nightclubs to eat pork pie, spend time with their besties, have their own responsibilities and families, and have the same emotional world, love and hate. Kusanagi, the unsmiling chief, asks Hannan to shoot her numb and painful life, just as she did when she shot her own love. But Hannan told her to live. Sometimes people have to repeat the same mission every day, and have to set sail according to the same route every day. Some small and personal feelings are submerged in the torrent of the times, and we have to give up our inner feelings for the sake of profit. The real pursuit, perhaps these pursuits are as insignificant in the eyes of others as Lao and Zhuang's theory of a small country. The director introduces these real-world issues into the film. In the end, Hannan chose to face off against the enemy's ace pilot, a normal adult man "Godfather". This is the challenge for everyone to enter the adult world from an immature child. It is also a process. It may be a moment, a night, or a longer period. The price paid for this must also vary from person to person. At the end of the film, Hannan was beaten to pieces in the battle, and he was lost in the sky like a passing bird. But in the end the director glorified this failure. Tell the audience through Hannan's inner monologue: Every time you walk the same road, the scenery will change thousands of times. Isn't that enough? Obviously, the director has already told us the answer to the question.
Throughout the whole character setting, they are calm and melancholy neutral tones, and the 3D scene setting has always been exquisite. real dialogue. The CG of the war is not too much, but the workmanship and scene effects are impeccable. The whole film is quite well-made, giving a whole soft wind to the post-modern hard gray tones. The ashtray used by Kusanagi is covered with blue-blue glaze and enamel, the sound of the Western Hong bell in the headquarters is thick and mysterious, the walls of the nightclub are blurred with dark pink neon and medieval goth roses, the pilot's deputy of the night time search Look at the city, the lights of the meter and the lights of the city are reflected on the glass cover. These details are pleasing. The music is also very good, soul-stirring harp and strings. Oshii Mori's old partner, Kawai Kenji.
I love this movie so much, I will watch it a second time.
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