pessimistic fatalism

Isom 2022-04-21 09:03:35

The film begins with a heart-pounding aerial battle. The setting that follows immediately draws a clear line between the audience and the characters: it's just a show of war, a show led by young men who will never grow up The show of performance. So this proposition about fate begins.
Adhering to the consistent mechanical texture of Mr. Oshii Mamoru, the characters will never be inseparable from the control of battle and fate. Represented by Kusanagi Suizumi, the program that is set runs for years. Gradually became conscious, realized the emptiness of the meaning of existence, and developed a sense of resistance. In this sense, it is still the same story as about self-knowledge and resistance to fate. But this time, it is not so profound and In the future, the main line will be the emotional entanglement of two characters in a fighting game, and a conspiracy hidden behind it that has been foreshadowing from the very beginning.
What I like is that the characters are portrayed delicately and quietly. Everyone can feel the strong emotions in their hearts. Mizusu Kusanagi came to Hannan's camp bed and buried her face deeply, a dangerous lingering in the underground tunnel at night. All people can sigh that this woman with the same surname as finally revealed The emotions in my heart have come out, and it has become more vivid. Although this love is too tangled, a lover who was killed by himself and resurrected as another person is mixed with a past with an adult man, hidden behind it. The secret of a huge organization. All of this makes the image of Kusanagi full of mystery and contradiction, and becomes the center of
the whole film. The coldness between people in the whole film is also the reason that attracts me very much. One. Treat your battles as ordinary work and take it lightly. It doesn't matter if you are looking for fun. It reflects the pallor of his heart. The second is the sense of mechanics and combat. The shots are all breathtaking, the switching between shots, the sound effects, I haven't seen too many war movies, but I think it has satisfied all my imagination of aerial warfare.
The smoking scenes that appear in the film, I think it represents The eternal son’s inner conflicted desire not to become an adult. Smoking is an act of adolescent boys and girls pretending to be mature. Hannan also said that a non-smoking boss, I don’t think I can trust it. To become an adult is actually a destiny they cannot achieve. , but refused to admit it, saying that she did not want to be. Kusanagi gave birth to a daughter with an adult man and shot his lover, all in order to break the eternal fate.
In the ending part, I think the director's view of changing fate is pessimistic. When Hannan pointed the gun at Kusanagi, he chose to let her continue to live. Maybe when he was shot last time, he actually made a He made the same choice, so he was the one who died instead of Kusanagi? In the final battle, Hannan chose one person to rush to the "Godfather" and decided to change his fate. But after the subtitles, the one who appeared in front of Kusanagi's desk was A new Hannan. All this may have been repeated countless times. People pretend not to know, don't mention it, and still repeat their own life day by day. And Kusanagi, as a person who constantly witnesses all this, how can What to choose?

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  • Kenton 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    It is difficult to fully understand the worldview just by watching the animation, but unfortunately the Chinese version of the novel is not finished. It is recommended to play the Wii version of the game, operate the godfather to beat the heroine, and various throughput conveniences to facilitate understanding of reincarnation.

  • Lupe 2022-02-07 14:57:17

    Oshii, you are one step closer to God...