Reading the file is a hot word in the first half of the year. The male protagonist of the popular animation "re0: Another World from Scratch" relies on a "file reading" skill to overcome dangers again and again. Reading files or similar concepts are often used by movies, such as the king of bad films, Nicolas Cage's film "Foreseeing the Future", And Tom Cruise's "Tomorrow's Borders" all borrow or use the ability to read files.
An alternative idealistic worldview
What these readings have in common is that they are all unlinear universes, and they only return to a point in time when the universe has passed. There is a corollary in the multiverse that making different choices for each event creates two identical but different contiguous worlds—parallel worlds.
"Four Stacks and a Half Myths" is such an inspirational story about different college life in a parallel world. But if it is a parallel world, it cannot be said to be a completely parallel world, and the existence of four and a half stacks of rooms is both idealistic and materialistic, both real and false. The four-and-a-half stack may be just an ideal in the protagonist's heart, perhaps a step in life that has been taken, or it may be a trace of evil thoughts that have been abandoned. Just like yesterday's dream sneaking into the dream, and then performing in tomorrow's life is full of visual sense, the four and a half worlds built on the heart are connected and separated, both and I have no self.
After reading a bunch of heretical and heretical theories above that are even more mysterious than the Tao Te Ching, the reader has been wrapped up in the clouds. Then I lost the nonsense of the previous paragraph, and listened to me about some of the characteristics of this anime (anime appreciation eight strands: picture, plot, character, music, voice actors. Anyway, I like to write a comic review and how to write can not escape these boxes).
Reality and illusion coexist
The style of the painting is the reason why many people gave up this animation, including when I first saw the poster and simply gave up. Stick figures are also similar to the painting style, coupled with some distorted character image settings, seeing the picture of this animation, I feel more not beautiful, but ugly. In order to express the character's personality, the animation character setting does not hesitate to shape the person into a strange shape like an underwater creature. In order to highlight the central figure, the Dragon Taolu people do not have a face with five facial features, and even a body with four limbs is sometimes not drawn.
Such a bizarre painting style is also illusory to a limit. But in stark contrast to such an illusion, many of the four-and-a-half interiors, food eaten, and river embankment scenery that appear in the animation are real DV cameras. In some scenes, animations are added to dv recordings, such as a pair of stick-in chopsticks clipping a piece of meat in the video. As I said in the mysterious text of the Tao Te Ching earlier, the story of the four and a half stacks is a world that is difficult to distinguish between existence and reality. Such a picture of the coexistence of reality and illusion also reminds the audience at all times that "Four Stacks and a Half Myths" is the story of the author Noboru Morimi, and it is also the story of each audience.
Stream-of-consciousness radio waves cut through layers of parallel universes
It is difficult to deny that "Four Stacks and a Half Myths" is the culmination of stream-of-consciousness creation in animation, and it truly realizes the use of consciousness to control the development of the plot, rather than the clues of the story to control the plot. Relative to the changing rhythm of the original novel, the animation has made some deletions, so that each episode can form a complete cycle of consciousness, and the end of each stream of consciousness cycle is the production of the next parallel universe. Although this design loses some of the fun of the original work, it also has the fun of animation itself, and this design makes each small story more complete and easy to understand, so that the audience can more easily follow the flow of the author's consciousness.
As has been introduced before, the worldview of the "Four-fold and Semi-Mythological Series" involves parallel universes, but its parallel universes have a strong idealism. The four-and-a-half-stack parallel universe is produced by following the consciousness of the protagonist, and every time the protagonist has a conjecture about the future, a parallel universe will be produced, and the four-and-a-half stacks that unfold with the stream of consciousness are stacked on top of each other, just like the center of a Rubik's cube, infinitely derived in all directions. However, unlike the isolation of information in the theoretical parallel universe, the parallel universe of the Four-fold And a Half Mythical System is generated by consciousness, and some core information will be interspersed with the flow of consciousness between layers of parallel universes.
So we can see that the cause and effect between different events are intertwined between parallel worlds, the protagonist's first episode hurts the couple's fireworks, ignites the transport vehicle managed by himself in the parallel universe... In order to prove that under the influence of stream of consciousness, the four-and-a-half stacks of parallel worlds intersect with each other, and the animation also sets up a strange divination mother-in-law, who will increase the divination fee by 1,000 yen every time she gives the protagonist a divination fee.
The best BGM is a confession of introspection
There is nothing in this anime that can impress people, although the whispered solo of the violin and piano reinforces some of the feeling of the climactic passage. But what is unforgettable is the protagonist's fast speech as if he were talking to himself in the mirror.
This animation must be based on confessions, and there is not even any dialogue between the characters. Because this is a complete stream of consciousness animation, the protagonist's confession is the initiation and series of this stream of consciousness. At the climax stage, when the protagonist finds himself trapped in an endless four-and-a-half stack, the protagonist's confession is reflecting on the cowardice of his attitude towards life, and it is also spurring the audience.
The protagonist is you, the protagonist is me, and the protagonist is anyone who has experienced college
After watching the "Four Stacks and a Half Myth Series", many people can't help but have a repentant heart. The reason why it has such an effect is because this animation tells our most common stories, whether it is the longing for the pink of the college campus, or the spoof of fools, the bitter sexual fantasies of young boys, the wavering hearts of the beloved girl... Importantly, most people who watch animation have lived in a small circle (not necessarily an entity such as a bedroom or home), trying to fill their social gaps with virtual information, but eventually they will only become more and more lonely.
Maybe you're breaking down the four-and-a-half-and-a-half wall and coming out bravely; maybe you're still stuck in a four-and-a-half-fold world doing nothing. But the animation warns us to understand that others should not smear others in order to shirk their responsibilities, maybe such others do not exist, others are just a shadow of you. Just like Ozu in the anime, the protagonist says how bad he is again and again, but what is really bad is his own shirking of responsibility. In reality, Ozu does not know the protagonist, and the Ozu that the protagonist complains about may only be himself.
Although it provokes people to repent, "Four Stacks and a Half Myth Series" still leaves us with a hope that we who are confused after watching the animation. The divination mother-in-law warned again and again that "hope is at hand." Many times hope is in front of us, but we are afraid to choose, pull open the pendant of the white soft person, it is a bright light. The light figuration in the anime becomes Akashi, the girl, the protagonist's choice path, and the confused road to the university ends because of the choice of Akashi. Maybe we don't have such a romantic choice at the moment, but just take a step, whether it is the desired brilliance or not, each of the colors should be the color of our lives.
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Text by Haruharu Kita
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