一, the effect of war propaganda
The restaurant next to the road often becomes a place for the nearby residents and the fighter pilots of the base a little further away. The restaurant gathers a variety of people and is a microcosm of the wider society. Based on this, looking at the reactions of various groups of people when a large-scale air battle occurs, it is possible to guess how the public reacts to the war.
When the large-scale air battle intelligence was reported on TV, there were two kinds of people in the restaurant. The first was people who were indifferent to the ongoing war, including: the old man sitting on the doorstep of the restaurant waiting all day, The boss who was cutting bread (of course the boss looked up at the TV at the end), the lady boss who was counting the accounts with the calculator, the old grandfather who looked down at the newspaper in his hand by the window, and the middle-aged woman sitting at the bar and drinking coffee. The second is people who are paying attention to the ongoing war, including: people around the TV, people sitting in their seats but focusing on the TV, mostly male, running excitedly The little boy in front of the TV (I think driven by curiosity). This shows that different groups of people have different attitudes towards war, whether they care or not.
What are the people who care about? Whether it was the result of the fierce battle between the two sides, or the number of people who were wounded and killed, or just knowing that there was a fierce aerial battle unfolding overhead, sipping coffee and making a small bet with the opponent. These are difficult to draw conclusions, but the boss's gesture of raising his head makes people feel that he may indeed be worried about the few fighter pilots he has visited and known.
"How long will the war last?"
"How long the war will be fought and how it will be fought will be decided by the top management. If the disparity in strength between the two sides is too great, the war will end soon, which is not a hope for the company. The results you see."
Maybe the only people who really care about the outcome are the high-level officials of both sides. Fighter pilots followed this ancient and inefficient rule of the game, and the Children were forever reduced to tools of war. And people, watching exaggerated reports of war on TV, know that there are still people in this world who die because of war, that's all.
It's just that, isn't it?
If something like war didn't happen right in front of you, you wouldn't be able to understand it. There is a scene in the film where a fighter jet in a neighboring war zone fell into the wasteland not far from Tulizhou because of being hit, and most of the entire plane fell into the soil upside down. The residents nearby showed their sorrow after seeing it. , Someone said: "This child is too pitiful." Kusanagi retorted her, "He is not pitiful at all, don't insult him with sympathy." Judging from the above dialogue, someone died on the spot in front of him, more than watching from TV The impact of those unrealistic reports is much greater, which makes people feel the cruelty and authenticity of the war.
"Have you ever thought about war? I mean that people who have thought about it and people who have never thought about it have different mental states. At least those who have thought about it are more aware of what peace is, or what peace brings. Benefit."
For an endless period of time, the two companies continued to play the war game, and it was widely reported, wanting to remind people that there is still a cruel and ruthless war somewhere in this world, and want people to realize that it is necessary to To maintain the current peace, this is the final effect of war propaganda.
Second, adults and children
always treat the group of fighter pilots as human beings. The proprietress congratulated Hannan on the victory of the first battle, and the old woman expressed regret for the dead pilot. There is nothing wrong with this, because They are all adults. Adults don't make behaviors that seem abnormal or beyond their understanding, but they are different as fighter pilots. They are all children, they have not grown up. little child.
Several scenes in the film describe the differences between the two groups. For example, when Kusanagi forcibly rushed into the combat headquarters, the adult man next to her commented that she did not look like an adult at all. Hannan nodded and said yes, and then explained. Days may die, is it necessary to grow into an adult? For another example, it was still the previously mentioned scene of the crash, and the residents expressed sympathy and regret for the driver, but Kusanagi retorted that such words should not be used to insult him.
Look, adults and children can't understand each other at all. They have completely different ways of thinking. Don't try to communicate, it's just futile, because they are both children. It is arrogance and stupidity for adults to try to understand the behavior of small children, and children do not want to be understood and do not need to be understood.
Children's Leader - Kusanagi told you that it is a good thing for a pilot to die in the air, so can you understand the adults who have been standing on the ground all their lives?
Third, Teacher and his Su Kaili J2
Children group is a group derived from the discovery of inhibitors in gene development. It is claimed that as long as they are not killed in battle, they will appear in the frontline base soon. In other words, their value lies in the skill of flying a plane, it has nothing to do with who they are, where they are, what they have done and what they will do in the future, their job is to fight, to survive or die in a battle , and then usher in the next battle. This is a cycle without exit.
It was not his delusion that Hannan went to the restaurant for the first time to eat the salty pie that tasted familiar, because the last time he ate the salty pie, he was still called Kurita Toshiro. Yudagawa returned to the base shortly after the crash at sea. This time, he did not even change his appearance, but only changed his name. The details of Yudagawa's newspaper in the animation were well received. When he came back again, the director used this detail. To tell you silently, yes, he is back again. It's silently disappointing.
During this period, I also had a question, that is, does the Children group have the continuity of memory or the transferability of technology, that is to say, will the same person die for the second or third time under the same move, if it is true Yes, that's a flaw of the Children group. But after all, the high-level people don't care about this matter. Who cares if they live or die. If they die, they will be rebuilt, and then they will be pulled out again.
On the battlefield, there is a kind of person that can be met but cannot be found. Driving a Su Kaili J2 with a black panther pattern is exactly the teacher of death walking in the sky. There is a saying among the pilots that no one who has seen the black panther pattern has come back, and the Teacher is a veritable king of shooting down.
"Since our war is a game that can never be interrupted, it needs certain rules, such as an enemy that is absolutely invincible."
"That's...Teacher."
Teacher is like their destination in the sky, he dances gracefully Accompany them in the final dance of death, grappling, staggering, shooting, bullets through the cockpit, through the wings, and the plane plummets into the sky with black smoke and plummets to the ground.
Teacher is special, no one has ever beaten him, so far, never.
Kannan once asked Kusanagi if there would be any changes after the Teacher was shot down, such as fate and limits. Should it be said that he successfully broke the rules, or at least achieved something that no one has been able to do so far. After countless failures, countless deaths, and countless attempts, they finally succeeded in crossing the finish line called Teacher. This was a complete rebirth, and that person must have felt that the sky at that time was extraordinarily beautiful.
"Even if it is the same road, you can walk on different places every day."
"Even if it is the same scenery, you will see a little different every time."
One day, one day...
Four. Hope on the way Hope
on the way refers to the hope that is still on the way. Because it is on the way, it is impossible to determine whether it is finally conveyed or not conveyed. For example, more people realize the importance of peace, for example, someone succeeds in shooting Teacher from the sky one day.
At the end of the film, Hannan did not shoot Kusanagi as in the original book, but told her to live until she could change something. This is also the hope brought by the director, the hope of running on the way, but I wish it could be spread to farther and wider places.
END
Postscript:
There are some ideas from the original work mixed in. Although I think the adaptation of Oshii Mamoru is also very good, but the original work is also very good.
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