Since the outbreak of the new pneumonia, every day we have been bombarded with a large number of various information screens.
We desperately need a wealth of information to understand the situation, but we also face the challenge of distinguishing between real and false.
Remember the crazy forwarding trailer of Bai Yansong talking to Zhong Nanshan?
Remember the double-yellow rush to put your hand on livestock?
The speed of debunking rumors is almost unable to keep up with the speed at which rumors spread.
One of the three essences of human beings is the repeating machine.
Especially at this particular point in time.
Words such as "rhythmic", "whitewashing", and "washing the floor" appear frequently.
True news is masked and questioned, and false news is constantly copied and disseminated.
There is no calm and clear logic, judgment and expression.
But there is a cry of "there should not be only one voice!" "The voice.
What exactly is true? What is false?
Or do we dare to face the truth?
I remember the first time I watched Katsuyo Otomo's "Memories Trilogy", I felt that there seemed to be no connection between the three stories.
However, it was found that the director actually raised this question to the audience from the three perspectives of the future, the present and the past, the two levels of figurative and abstract, and used absurd techniques.
When it comes to Japanese animated films, in addition to the representatives of the healing faction, Hayao Miyazaki, the representatives of the brain-burning faction, Imatoshi and Oshii Mori, it has to be said that there is also the representative of the hardcore faction, Katsuyo Otomo.
The combination of magic and science is a hallmark of his style.
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Katsuyo Otomo is obsessed with the achievements of industrial civilization that people are proud of, and he also worries that uncontrolled and accelerated machines will one day eat back on humans.
His attention and criticism of society is not gentle and beautiful, nor is it a sword-jerking, but with a characteristic joke.
It still seems that these absurd fables of the last century are very forward-looking and profound.
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<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Her Memories: Identifying Falsehood</h1>
The first story is set in the future, 2092.
A space garbage-recovery spacecraft receives a distress signal from the "cosmic graveyard" on its way back.
The signal is also interspersed with a singing segment of the opera "Madame Butterfly".
That place has a very strong magnetic field, and it is very easy to get into danger because of the loss of communication.
However, in order to comply with the international air gazette, Captain Ivanov sent the crew heinz and Miguel to the rescue.
Heinz is a father with a 10-year-old daughter, brave and responsible, and takes the initiative to take responsibility for saving people.
Missing his girlfriend, Miguel, who is like an arrow, complains a lot, and at first he is reluctant.
This set the stage for the end of the two.
As they entered the asteroid, which was in tatters on the outside but luxurious on the inside, the foreshadowing became clearer with a series of strange things.
The graceful lady suddenly appears and calls Miguel her former lover, Carol.
The broken music box porcelain dolls and the rag dolls falling from the ceiling made the strong man Heinz tremble like an electric shock.
The deeper you walked, the more desolate and dilapidated everything around you became, and the true face of the lady was gradually revealed.
It turned out that she was the most popular "Century Singer" Ava in the early 20th century.
The place is a virtual space based on her memories.
Here, Carol, the tenor who was killed by her for her empathy, is an unwavering lover.
The people around her before the career fell into a trough still gave her the warmest applause and cheers.
She and the glory and beauty of the past have gained immortality.
And control each component with its own powerful consciousness, like a siren to attract passing space travelers.
Invade their consciousness and create these illusory images that allow them to escape from reality.
The lonely Miguel could not resist the beautiful Lady Ava's embrace.
Heinz, who had experienced the pain of bereavement, saw a touchable daughter waiting for him in the depths of the universe and kept him.
The story was written by Katsuyo Otomo and Toshi Imatoshi.
Added a lot of Imatoshi's style of intertwining reality and illusion, making people unable to distinguish between boundaries.
And the truth is often difficult to face.
People will believe what they want to believe.
In the present, why not?
Behind every confirmed case of new pneumonia and the number of deaths is the sound of a broken family.
The rise and fall of the numbers is general, cold, and seems far away from us.
But the variety of sounds emitted by people often haunts the ears.
Will there be a day when we only remember the glorious victory of this "war epidemic", but ignore or forget the accumulated bones of countless civilians and soldiers on the way to the end?
In front of you are placed red pills and blue pills.
There is no doubt that Miguel chose the blue pill and immersed himself in a rose-colored apparition.
Heinz chose the red pill and accepted her death the moment he truly embraced her daughter's body.
Mental numbness is the most terrifying, and mental blows are the most cruel.
Some people think of numbness as a peaceful escape.
Some people can see the blow as a jump of sobriety.
Truthfully recording is not uncovering scars.
It's about feeling their pain and proving that their pain isn't meaningless.
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<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Stinkiest Weapon: Revenge for False Play</h1>
The first forty minutes are still interstellar cowboy space operas set off by Yoko Kanno's soundtrack.
Then the second story turns the channel, back to the ground, back to the real world closest to us.
The city of Yamanashi, Japan, is beautiful, and the morning news is broadcast calmly as usual.
Until there was a coughing sneeze in the clinic.
I subconsciously touched my mask.
Sure enough, it was ptsd.
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The protagonist of this story, Nobuo Tanaka, a small employee who works for a pharmaceutical company, also suffers from the flu.
But he still dutifully dragged the sick body back to the company.
The company's colleagues saw that Xinnan was not good, and proposed that he go to the director's office to take a newly developed cold medicine that had not yet been listed.
Countless tragic historical events have shown that words can be spoken indiscriminately, but things really cannot be eaten indiscriminately.
Whether it is the strengths who know the inside story and are terrified, or the employees of the company who are blinded by the face, none of them are spared.
Only the shin man who took the new drug was safe and sound.
After being alerted, pharmaceutical company executives hurriedly told Nobuo to keep it a secret, asking him to bring secret documents and samples of new drugs to Tokyo.
Shinnan saw the sample of the new drug that made the executives panic and did not report in time that he had eaten it as a cold medicine.
Thus, under the opacity of information on both sides, a nightmare disaster began.
Wherever Shino went, there were corpses all over the field, but the plants bloomed exceptionally delicately regardless of the season.
The so-called people see people hanging, flowers see flowers blooming.
A veritable poison king.
As we are experiencing.
The city quickly collapsed, and people fled, wearing gas masks and protective clothing.
Even if all the armed forces were mobilized, they would not be able to stop and eliminate Nobuo.
It blew up Tokyo all over the place.
The most deadly thing is that it also stimulates the metabolism and mood changes of Shino, releasing a smell with increasingly powerful lethality.
Wouldn't it be better to know the truth sooner?
Well, if the Wuhan two sessions can pay attention to and honestly announce the condition, it will not be so serious now.
Oh sorry, I went on the wrong set.
Despite the gravity of the matter, no one but pharmaceutical executives and the commanders of the Strategic Center knew that Shino was taking experimental drugs that the company had cooperated with the Japanese and American military forces.
In the strategic center that monitors all this, the two forces of interest are facing each other.
The Japanese side wants this secret to be destroyed along with Shino.
But the US side does not want its own investment to drift.
Send out soldiers wearing the most powerful spacesuits of the highest level of protection, and capture Shino alive, the strongest biochemical weapon.
Just when everyone thought that Shino was already lying in the sealed box.
Shino, who has the aura of the strongest protagonist in the universe, appears in the combat center wearing a spacesuit.
In the round-up of the four terrified faces, the helmet was slowly lifted.
The group of people who wanted to keep the secret the most were killed by the secret.
There is no mercy in playing with and retaliating against falsehood.
Under Katsuyo Otomo's brush, real life is a black comedy.
But when I thought that there was really a walking poison king in real life, my smile gradually disappeared.
How real it is to avoid panic but to create even greater panic!
To borrow a golden sentence from Bai Yansong: "Information disclosure is the best vaccine." ”
And the non-disclosure of information is the biggest disaster.
Katsuyo Otomo's prophecy makes people shudder a little.
It makes me a little skeptical that Feb. 28 will cancel the Games, as Akira says.
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<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Cannon Street: Lost in Falsehood</h1>
The style of the last story began to change again.
The gray tones and thick lines have transformed from horror and funny to a lifeless atmosphere.
It withdraws from reality, as if pointing to the world of the past.
The city in the movie seems to be an abrupt existence on the earth.
Each house was densely packed together, and the roof was all equipped with cannons.
Outside the city is a large open space full of craters.
This is the trace of a cannon fired every day in accordance with the regulations.
The camera takes a day from an ordinary family, and the shot spreads out to let us see the operation of the whole city.
The first thing the little boy did when he got up was to pay a solemn salute to the huge commander's painting.
Then go to the classroom to learn various mathematical formulas and learn how to fire cannons with precision.
Dad was a gunner in charge of loading and unloading on the fort, conscientiously completing the daily firing tasks.
While the tasks are the same every day, the whole process is magnified and rendered in an extremely serious and serious manner.
Everything was ready, and only when the last step was left, the commander with the big belly was invited to appear and "struggle" to pull.
In the factory where my mother worked, all the female workers raised their hands in unison to celebrate the success of the launch.
Although some people feel that the toxic chemicals brought by the firing of cannons pollute the environment and endanger human beings.
But the solution they proposed was to use pollution-free artillery shells.
Passers-by swept by the camera marched in a numbing line.
Everyone has thick dark circles under their eyes, like the walking dead.
They are at ease in their place, playing their role as a screw step by step.
When Dad fell down in the gun emplacement, he took off the gas mask.
At this time, the chief will only reprimand him for his negligence in his work, and does not care about his life safety.
At the end of the day, the family watched a news program that broadcast about the same amount of content every day.
How many cannons have been successfully fired today?
Roughly describe the destruction of the enemy.
Finally, do not forget to summarize passionately, in order to see the day of victory in sight, in order to defend the city must be fully fired.
At the end of the show, Dad answered a question from the little boy.
No one actually knows.
The distance beyond the city was obscured by thick smoke.
Here, cities have no names, stations have no names, and people have no names.
Everything revolves around the cannon.
Every day, people learn how to fire cannons and make cannons in order to meet the enemy.
But what is the goal of the cannon from beginning to end without telling people? Who is the enemy?
The only clear target is the day of victory, which is not known whether it is true or false, and the street of deformed and isolated cannons.
Replace rationality with ritual to form a cohesion that is not vibrant but solid.
At this point, the third story completely abandons the truth and sinks into falsehood.
No one took the initiative to pierce the truth.
Everyone willingly lives in a dream woven with lies.
Dystopian plots don't just happen in the past, they happen in movies.
Take a look around us.
Sensitive words for every sentence posted online should be replaced by pinyin initials, and reading is like decoding.
One of the detailed rules for the content review standards of online variety shows is that talk shows cannot "one-sidedly interpret social issues.".
But how to be comprehensive?
Will there soon be a new form of variety show called "closed-mouth show"?
When it is impossible to say and dare not say, 404 and self-castration have become the norm, everyone becomes a hollow person.
Will the truth frighten us?
All I know is that if everyone from top to bottom develops the mantra of "can" and "understand".
Then it is equivalent to everyone "killing" countless Dr. Li Wenliang in the performance of their duties.
The result is bad.
At the end of the story, the little boy who got such an answer went to sleep carefree.
The crayon drawings he had left behind came into action.
The little man in the imposing military uniform and the long sword shouted loudly, "Salute! advance! Fire! "These slogans.
Tanks, planes, artillery parades pass by.
"When I grow up, I'm going to be a commander, not a gunner like my dad."
This is the dream of a little boy.
Plato's first requirement for the ruler of his ideal state was to be a sincere man.
Can a little boy who grows up in this environment do it?