Secondly, this is an animation that is very Oshii. I was disappointed when I first saw the character design, but the old duck wants to talk about life and ideals, which is his specialty. The character design may not have much to do with this animation. Too many plus points, but absolutely no minus points, please don't give up because of this question.
The story of The Sky Crawlers takes place in a world of alternate history. This world already has peace. In order to let the world deeply understand the preciousness of peace, history books are not enough. So the European Union and other funders funded war companies to perform aerial war shows. , sustaining the world's desire for peace with continual "true" sacrifices.
This is just a simple wrapper for the world we live in today, Israel is showing war, Africa is showing hunger, China is showing GFW, all of this has nothing to do with Japan. The Japanese are doing a perfect job like Sky Crawler, with generous pay and infinite resurrection. It is simply paradise on earth, but life in paradise will be boring.
How to solve the problem of "not feeling the real sense of life" after all the problems have been solved? Everything is on track, which means that everything follows the rules. The war show will never end, and children will never be able to beat adults. In these unbreakable rules, they cannot feel the value of their existence, which has become the biggest problem plaguing the Japanese today. . The love shown in "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" can certainly make people numb, but after the love, the 55-year-old Duck finished the first lap of his life and started the second lap, and the answer he gave was to wait for a change .
"You have to live, before you can change." After thinking hard, the old duck did not find a way to change. The child still couldn't beat the adult, but he was unwilling to say "live well and everything will be fine". , had to choose to keep hope and wait to change this statement. Those of us who are still running the first lap of life may think that this statement is similar to no statement, and it cannot change the status quo anyway. For the old duck who started to run the second lap of his life, there must be an essential difference between a hopeful run and a hopeless repeating lap. He also began to try some changes himself, introducing commercial elements into the animation and introducing tear-jerking screenwriters. Introducing the voice of the deaf-mute actor in the Tower of Babel, these sincere demonstrations are what he wants to convey, and he hopes that we can run wonderfully in the first lap.
"If today is different from yesterday,
tomorrow will be different from today,
so I can live with hope."
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