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The live-action version of "Ghost in the Shell" is set for March 31 in North America and April 7 in China. As can be seen in the trailer released before, the screen is full of homages to the anime version, such as Suiko Kusanagi's classic "take off the coat and go to the roof" (in fact, stripping and jumping off the building is a little bit of bad taste directed by Oshii Mori), the battle thinking chariot, the geisha robot, and the prosthetic body manufacturing process.
A tribute shot from the live-action version
As another cooperation between Hollywood and the classic anime IP, the live-action version of Ghost in the Shell looks much more reliable than the live-action version of Dragon Ball, but the author still believes that there should be no high expectations for it.
As we all know, the core of "Ghost in the Shell" (hereinafter referred to as "Ghost in the Shell") lies in the creator's social and philosophical thinking integrated into the work, and these contents are difficult to express in Hollywood assembly line blockbusters. Therefore, going to the cinema with the purpose of watching a thrill should be able to get a better movie-watching experience.
What the? depth? Isn't Scarlett Johansson just responsible for beauty?
Although the philosophical content contained in "Breaking the Shell" is obscure, its reflections on society are now much easier to understand, because the plot in the work is gradually happening around us. Now find out the "Attack on the Shell" from more than ten years ago, and when you watch it, you can't help but exclaim, "It's a god-like prophecy!" ”。 So today, let's talk about the accurate predictions in Ghost in the Shell.
Stripping off the building is actually a bit of bad taste of Oshii Mori
Refugee/Illegal Immigration Issues (TV2 Individual Eleven)
The most personal feeling of "Ghost in the Shell" is the "refugee problem" that runs through the second season of the TV version. In the world line of "Breaking the Shell", after World War IV, a large number of Asians whose homes were flattened became refugees and displaced. For various reasons, Japan decided to open its doors to accept this group of refugees.
The world map in "Attack on the Shell" is very informative, and many places can be seen being flattened by nuclear bombs
The Japanese government did not accept refugees out of pure good intentions, and Japan, which was in ruins after the war, needed this batch of "cheap labor". The "refugees" in "Attack the Shell" have two attributes at the same time: one is similar to the "illegal immigrants" in the United States, doing jobs that their own people do not want to do, and they do not have their own nationality and legal status; the other attribute is the "refugees" accepted by Europe today, who seek humanitarian asylum in other countries for reasons such as war and chaos.
And the deduction of the creators of "Attack on the Shell" on the refugee issue, like a prophecy, is coming true one by one.
Refugee area in Ghost in the Shell
In The Shell, the evolution of the refugee problem can be divided into four phases:
In the first phase, the influx of immigrants deepened the insecurity of the people of the country. First, there is concern that unbridled refugee shelters will create a serious fiscal burden that will eventually be passed on to ordinary people through taxes; second, cheap foreign labor is good news for capitalists, but it will put heavy employment pressure on the bottom of the population, further reinforcing insecurity.
Illegal immigrants of Mexican descent who chant 'We are also Americans'
In the second stage, this insecurity will eventually be reflected in the votes, and the political forces on all sides will try to use this trend of thought to achieve their own goals. More voices are beginning to emerge, criticism will no longer stop at the burden of fiscal revenue, and problems such as rising crime rates and rising unemployment will be blamed on refugees.
These sounds are true and false, the explosion of information makes it impossible to distinguish between true and false, and all the information is mixed together to form a larger voice. And the crimes of refugees will further stimulate public opinion, and right-leaning ideas will snowball on social networks, and eventually people can't ignore it.
In the third stage, the right-wing government came to power, right-leaning ideas became the mainstream, and national policies turned conservative. There are people on both the national and the refugee levels who are unwilling to express their grievances only in words and begin to resort to acts of force. Sporadic terrorist attacks are beginning to emerge and are about to fall into a vicious circle.
The pro-China right-wing female prime minister of the Ghost in the Shell
The fourth stage is artistic exaggeration. Pushed by the black hand behind the scenes, the refugees claimed to have built a nuclear bomb and declared armed autonomy, and the army began to intervene. Behind the scenes, the underworld fired nuclear bombs at refugee areas and disguised themselves as refugees to use nuclear bombs to detonate themselves, hoping to solve the problem once and for all. In the end, Tacitma chose to sacrifice himself, blocking the nuclear bomb with the remains of a satellite, foiling the plot.
Although the "refugees" in the real world are more complex and mysterious because they are involved in religious issues, they seem to have followed the deduction of "Attack on the Shell" to the early stage of the third stage. In the past 2016, Trump was elected president of the United States, the rise of right-wing parties in Europe, the attack on mosques in Quebec, Canada, and Texas veterans building dirty bombs at home. It's almost like a reenactment of the plot in a comic book in the real world.
Illegal immigrants and refugees are an important thrust of right-leaning political forces in Europe and the United States
Where do you go next? The creators of "Attack on the Shell" did not know, otherwise they would not have designed the plot of "Armageddon". It is said that 2016 may be the inflection point of the world line, but we in the tide cannot see the future, and can only live our own lives and pray for world peace.
The Plague of Low Births (OVA3 Solid State Society)
The OVA3 released in 2006 only said one thing---- "low birthrate", which is called an aging society in China. The problem of "low birthrate" plagues Europe and Japan today, and it will be a major problem for China in the future, and even to put it mildly, it is already a major problem for China.
The 'low birthrate' that deeply plagues the Japanese people
In OVA3, a part of the consciousness that kusanagi remains in the network merges and gradually acquires self-awareness, known as a puppet. The puppeteer found that in the future of "low birthrate", a large number of minors are abused to death every year.
So the puppeteers found the abused minors from the police surveillance network, kidnapped them, and changed their hukou and memories. Reach an agreement with the elderly without children to make these minors their heirs. In this way, even if the old man dies, the property will not be confiscated, and the child can inherit a property and grow up smoothly.
As a result, The Nine Lessons noticed the incident and followed the clues to finally find the puppet. The puppet tried to protect the system with Kusanagi Suko, but without success. The Nine Lessons end the crime, but they can only send the children rescued by the puppets back to the original demon cave. This confrontation between procedural justice and outcome justice makes people sigh.
The only wish of these elderly people who have no offspring and depend on medical equipment is to have an heir, even if they are kidnapped
The puppeteer of the scheme of this crime confessed as follows:
"The country has reached a state where someone has to find a way to change, with more than six million elderly people, a growing unemployment rate, a declining working population, and a low fertility rate. But even when society has called for attention to the low fertility problem, more than 50,000 children under the age of six die each year because they do not receive adequate care.
30% of them died of domestic violence abuse. Even if the police have evidence, there is nothing they can do. That's why I focused on using the cost of loss, finding children who were in danger, changing their household registrations, and letting them embark on a new life.
Even if it is a criminal act, it is imperative to rescue the child in danger, even if it is to sacrifice my own life, I will never regret it. ”
The puppet who eventually chose to commit suicide
The fertility rate required to meet the needs of generational change is 2.1, the fertility rate in Japan in 2012 is 1.4, and the fertility rate in China is only 1.1 in the six census surveys. Even in Taiwan and Hong Kong, which do not have "family planning" policies, the fertility rate has not exceeded 1.4. The low fertility rate cannot even be solved by Japan's policy of adopting financial subsidies to encourage fertility, let alone opening up the second child can be changed quickly.
In general, areas with higher average education levels will have lower fertility rates and longer fertility cycles. It is foreseeable that China in the future will inevitably face a more severe crisis of low births. In 2015, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reported that the pension income of six provinces has not been enough, and the social security contributors have been reduced for seven consecutive years.
Don't say pension, just in recent years, the number of college entrance examinations has declined, and the beginning of the abolition of primary schools in various places can already see the trend of fewer children
And even today, when "children" are beginning to become a precious resource, 600,000 children still die in China every year, of which 200,000 die from accidental injuries. It is not uncommon for people to break through the door, fall into a well, and fall from a high-rise building, and there are also deputies to the just-concluded two sessions who called for strengthening the protection of young people and severely punishing acts such as abandoning the unsealed well, but blocking all wellheads cannot eliminate irresponsible parents.
Sometimes I really want to have a "puppet" to rescue abused children from the "bad guys". However, there are no puppets in the real world, and the members of the Nine Lessons can only carry out procedural justice in the shackles of the law, praying that the children who are sent back to the magic cave will grow up smoothly.
Last year's Hebei Falling Well Boy Rescue, a lot of manpower and material resources were dispatched, and finally it was still not rescued...
Stand Alone Complex (TV1 Smiley Man)
Stand Alone Complex is generally translated as "isolated individual aggregate", which refers to the fact that the original independent individual performs the same behavior for a certain purpose according to his own will without clear external command, and when countless independent individuals are regarded as a whole, they show a higher sense of the whole.
Like an ant colony in nature, an ant is insane, and both worker ants and queens follow their instincts, and there is no commander in the colony. But when the number of ants reaches a certain level, the colony as a whole shows wisdom. Colonies will take care of eggs, store food, grow fungi, and even sacrifice a portion of the colony in times of crisis. For example, during a flood, it is a ball to protect the queen.
Ants that originally have no wisdom can manifest wisdom as a whole
There are too many such examples in nature, where individual individuals in fish and bee colonies have only instincts, but when they gather in groups, it is as if an invisible brain is manipulating the entire group. There are two prerequisites for this phenomenon: 1. The number must be large enough; 2. Individuals must be able to communicate with each other.
For humans, there is no problem with being large enough. And with the advancement of technology, the exchange of information is no longer difficult. In the past, it was difficult to notify the whole city of one thing, but today, through the Internet, people all over the world can see events such as "A mother in Indonesia gave birth to quintuplets" that happened in a small corner. The world of "Breaking the Shell" has been pushed to the extreme, and has developed to the level of "posterior intubation".
At the extreme of the Stand Alone Complex, the individual becomes a puppet manipulated by a huge amount of information. People's behavior is actually feedback on external information, and if the same massive amount of information is input into a group, their behavior will show convergence, even if they think they are making judgments about their own behavior. At that stage, the individual's existence will gradually disintegrate. This may be a bit difficult to understand.
In "Attacking the Shell", brain signals can already be digitized to communicate directly with the network
The primary form of the Stand Alone Complex is the prototype of the "Smiley Man Incident" in the work, the "Gligo Morino Incident". To take the example of today's Chinese society, it is the "medical trouble" that everyone hates.
(The "GligoMorinaga Incident" was a crime of extorting huge sums of money under the threat of poisoning food companies.) At that time, Japan was hyped up and everyone knew that some news commentators believed that the media had actually contributed to the popularity of criminals. In the end, the criminals were not caught, and the case ended with the air crash of President Gleason Yonggao and the police department in charge of the case committing suicide.
But things did not settle there, and in the next few years, there were many crimes in Japan that imitated the Gleason Yonggao case, and even elementary school students in Taiwan sent letters to food factories threatening to use poisoning as a threat to extort game consoles. ）
Medical troubles are the primary form of the Stand Alone Complex, which unnecessarily increases social costs and must be remedied
The smiling man phenomenon is driven by a rebellious spirit, and the internal driving force of "medical trouble" is profit. The media's coverage of the smiling man has expanded its influence, and the "medical disturbance" is also the same, and a large number of reports on the "medical disturbance" have spread the information that "the medical disturbance can get money", and some people who receive this information have finally made endless medical incidents. The healer thinks he is acting independently, but is actually just a puppet manipulated by information.
To take other examples, there is no disrespect — groups such as "little pink" and "cents with their own dry food" are all isolated individual collections. As technology continues to advance, this phenomenon will increase and even begin to dominate society as a whole, and we are in the process of doing so.
The Smiley Man has also become a social symbol like Che Guevara
epilogue
In fact, as a science fiction work, the science fiction setting in "The Shell" has become a reality, and the "Shell" "predicted" 3D printing, cloud computing and big data in the 90s. Isn't the software-based setup in Fully Automated Capitalism that makes profits from the subtleties of stock trading what it is today's "high-frequency trading"?
Shiro Masamune's constructed "Attack on the Shell" worldview is a stage, and Oshii Mori and Kenji Kamiyama direct their own stories on the stage. They tell a wonderful story in the near-future science fiction world in a realistic style, like a mirror that reflects the face of today's real society.
If someone today creates such a serious thinking animation and integrates too much of his own thinking about the world into his work, I am afraid that he will be criticized for "too many private goods" and "not using the author to teach people". Some are self-talking. After all, it is no longer the era of "the world rises and falls, and the piaf has the responsibility", and the current "piaf worries about the world" will only be ridiculed.
Real life is tired enough, people are not willing to go to the anime to get an education, it is enough to watch the waste cute anime and be happy
In fact, in recent years, the pattern of Japanese animation has become smaller and smaller, not to say that there are no good works in the small pattern, and there are many excellent works like "White Box" and "Spirit Energy 100%" that tell a good story in the small pattern. But in this way, it is also a pity to lose the spirit of carrying the greater content.
Fortunately, the classic will never die, and maybe when it really comes to the day of "intubation behind the head", it will be interesting to take out "Ghost in the Shell" and look at it again.