You have a god with powerful right arm,
waving hammer to forge a tiger's fearful symmetry.
You know the perfect state of equation,
the sweet energy and the pale sanity.
My Lady's left-handed wrist is weak and weary.
out of this frail form trying to find hope of a new shape,
she shattered my life and soul with a blow no heavier than pen.
Then scared by the hollowness unpenetrable, she wept
for her dying furnace and mediocre craft.
In thick darkness you sought light, efforts tried hard in vain.
Others had their salvation:
Wealth, health, family or fame;
Remain you in the hollow darkness,
Silent howls scattered and sank.
Reading your lines I wept and sighed,
Delighted to see the other side of a mirror,
And downcast for the forlorn life you had fulfilled,
that I should alone stroll hereafter.
The Pillows
裸足的少年你是誰
為什麼會有著和我一樣的臉？
知道廢墟的階梯吧
今夜無意中爬到了最高階
也是睡不著的夜晚啊
其實一直都知道
這裡已經再也沒有想要的東西了
裸足的少年啊 我是誰呢
怎麼會有跟你一樣的臉呢？
脫掉鞋子吧
在飛機跑道上 靜靜地
等待天亮的瞬間
剝除曖昧的天空
燃燒風
起飛吧
雖然很多人都說了
那只是幻影而已
雖然我也想這樣理解
卻做不到啊
在飛機跑道上 靜靜地
等待天亮的瞬間
剝除曖昧的天空
燃燒風
起飛吧
Diving, flying, dying,
Without dream we're drying
and we call that a living
Tell me who you are,
why do you have my face?
Tell me who I am,
why do i have your face?
Why are we crying wthout tear shedding?
End of the series....
Well, at least I feel relieved to see 草薙 alive.
Though atcually I also feel somewhat sympathy to those soldiers who fought section 9. Although they did it unrightously, they did it under proper orders for them.
This episode begins with ドクサ's monologue and ends with conversation of 草薙 and 笑い男. This arrangement quite interestingly (or ironically) illustrates the concepts 孤 and 個. The most isolated character, ドクサ, can preserve his unique personality, but is confined to his own solitude, being deprived of his access to information (情報）. On the other hand, 草薙 and 笑い男 could represent those who are immersed in the virtual world and those who encounter the danger of losing one's own identity through 並列化, (likeタチコマ). To connect to the outer world means the probability of being influenced and changed. Changing isn't bad for evolution, but changing toward the same direction (並列化) in fact is potential threat to the survival of a species, since the purpose of 並列化 is to have equal quantity of information and thus to become the same. And that's what 笑い男 really cares about: individuality and existence.
To his(in fact, her) question, 草薙 gives one probable solution: imagination. Though she doesn't elaborate on how imaginaton would/could free human beings from the prison of information, this is quite epiphanical. And yet, I am not as optimistic as them. Through the net and ghost hack, every thought, fantasy, or imagination would spread as a kind of information (remember the director?) as soon as possible. Though information could serve as inspiration sometimes, burying oneself in the sea of information, it would be difficult for an individual to develop his/her own imagination. What's more, as 笑い男 said, even 草薙 became one fake of 笑い男 during the process of prosecuting 薬島. In fact, ドクサ also imitated 笑い男 in the desperate state of mind (fortunately stopped by バトー at the last moment) and he definitely is the one with the most individuality in Section 9, without much cyborg operation and with much human thinking. Being forced or not, loss of individuality seems inevitable.
Philip Pullman
Because of the armored bear Iorek, I would give this trilogy more credit.:P
Most times I don't like works with too much Christian implication and this is no exception, though I do like the idea of multiworlds. But still, no one wouldn't think of Adam and Eve when Lyra and Will kissed and hugged in the forest .
Moreover, the characterization is also somwhat blurring. Lyra is said to fulfill her destiny by lying and betrayal, but it seems that her mother is far better at that-- and both of her parents are passionate, strong willed figures, but also full of incongruity. And as for the Dr. Malone, I doubt her participating in the journey is just to lure Will back to his world, lest he should stay with Lyra and spoil the "tragic" or artificially sacrificial ending.
For me, this trilogy is full of wonder--small wonders, like Gallivespians' dragonflies(wouldn't anyone think of Gulliver's travell?) and the armored bear Iorek (recognizing the Danish pirate fierceness in the name?). But as the story advances, it becomes gradulally dull, lengthy and falling apart. Perhaps the intention for another Paradise Lost is admirable, but apparently the adventure fails in the end.
"Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right."
~Will
A scary movie.
The plot/theme is kind of melodramtic, but whoever the directore is, he/she did a good job to make the scene/transition scary.
What's the movie talk about? Just how the middle class men could degenerate and how they are devoured by their own greed.
That's all.
I.G - STAND ALONE COMPLEX - ��18�b �Љ�
暗殺の二重奏
The first thing is Japan's image. It's obvious in SAC other powerful countries are satirized, like CIA. And this time it is China.
Although it is not proclaimed clearly, judging from the pictures, apparently China must have been the bad one in the previous war, just like Japan in WWⅡ.
So, what would this mean, patriotism or shameless accusation? Or I shouldn't be so serious since it's only fictional plot?
The second thing would be closer to the main theme of GITS. Memory vs personality; thinking vs action. A man could resurrect from death (even on his own son!) through the memory stored in the electronic brain. The influence that the electronic brain might work upon human beings' styles of existence now is gradually showing up.
People are now free to choose to live without body (like the director) or to die with will to live (like辻崎). The borderline between life and death thus is blurred. And it's more and more difficult for a person to claim to be a being with unique and independent thinking since it's so easy to rewrite the memory and to hack into the brain.
Of course, this is still fictional plot. And this kind of technique would arouse much controversy of ethics (much more than that of human cloning, I think) in real life. However, for me, this kind of problem is worth imagining and wondering.