On September 24, Diga Ultraman was removed from major video platforms and re-launched three days later.
It is said that the reasons for the removal at that time were "violent and bloody", "armed fighting scenes" and so on.
Today the crow wants to justify the work of "Diga".
Some people may say, Crow, you just finished approving the children's cult two days ago, how can this whitewash the "violent" Diga Ultraman?
Practice makes the truth. In order to write this, the whole holiday crow brushed this childhood memory again in the B station. Briefly talk about a few places where I feel more deeply. The following involves some spoilers, and friends who are worried about affecting the experience of watching the show in the future can choose to watch the original drama first.
Diga should be regarded as the most familiar Ultraman in Chinese (the crow is not a senior close-up fan, if there is a mistake, please spray the knowledgeable old iron), and is also one of the famous terrier makers.
Even if you have not seen "Diga", the song "Miracle Reappearance" I believe many people have heard.
Diga is a 1996 work that was introduced to Chinese mainland in 2004 and has become a childhood memory for a generation.
This first has to talk about the main characters in "Diga", simply say that the protagonist Dagu you can equate him with "Diga", the other main characters are Dagu's "Victory Team" teammates - Captain Kei, Vice Captain Munakata, team members Lina (Dagu's lover), Horai, New Town and others.
If you want to ask if there are hades shots and "cult" pictures in "Diga", there are indeed some, and you can see this "childhood shadow" full of screens, which can explain something.
For example, in Episode 31, all the Bisama life forms that are meant to "breed" and the distorted images of the members of the Victory Team and its imitations are evil? Of course, the cult will definitely frighten many children.
For example, in episode 45, the ultra-ancient human Luke supplemented his daughter Dina with Zijra essence to continue the activity of brain cells, but actually opened the back of the head, and this scene was cut out in the current domestic version of the film.
But dramatically, this scene is included in the ending song screen, the review cut did not notice, and the result was that this picture was presented in ED...
That is to say whether the lens of the head opening scoop will cause psychological shadows on children, no one dares to pack tickets.
How to say it? It's like the first time the crow saw the old demon of Montenegro in "Journey to the West", or the big centipede in "The Legend of the New White Lady". They are also the masters who can become the protagonists of a child's nightmares for a few days.
But this kind of horror shot is obviously not intended to scare people, or to give people a simple psychological stimulus. Diga tells a lot of things that still seem extremely valuable today.
Digha's position is clear.
In episode 11, Ryosuke, a friend of Horai and a scientist who lives in Room 713, uses himself to conduct human experiments and injects alien Ablon cells into his body and transforms into a monster. Scientists, human experiments, and the three numbers on the house numbers that the episode often inexplicably gives close-ups are hard not to associate.
In episode 13, "Don't Be a Slave", the villain Crow Man (good guy) is one of the biggest childhood shadows of his friends.
They came to Earth to take away a lot of Earthlings, what did they do, to be their slaves. And these birdmen treated the local humanoid species as slaves on their original planet, and after being exhausted without pity, the slave source was scarce, and they ran to the earth to catch new slaves.
After using the locals as slaves and using them uncontrolledly, the locals are on the verge of extinction and go to the new continent to rob new slaves, how does this not sound like an alien story? Well, isn't this just a bad id number?
In 41 words, the Eludians who came back to Earth did not attack human beings in a big way, but used an extremely gentle female voice to "broadcast kindness" to human beings:
We are not here to invade you, we are incredibly powerful and live incomparably happy, do you want to have it? Join us, this is paradise.
"We are not invaders, but saviors", yo, there is really a glowing tower... Such a beautiful world naturally attracts the yearning of many earthlings.
In fact, the "seeking stability" that the Iludians say is to turn the earthlings into Iluds (physiological), but the victory team members go up to dissuade them but are maddened by people who yearn for heaven.
Oh, by the way, the Ilud people are "everyone is completely equal" and "have the same life" is really not a lie, because they brainwash others to wash themselves first, sharing a brain, and there is no individual independent thinking at all.
There is such an important villain in "Diga" - Kiriellod Starman, there are two episodes of the main plot, the 3rd episode directly invaded the earth was defeated by Diga Ultraman, the strong attack can not be turned into wisdom, there is the 25th episode of the "Devil's Judgment", compared to the force of the attack, this time it poses a greater challenge to Diga.
In this episode, "angels" suddenly appear in the sky, attracting a large number of "believers". The Kiri-Elliots conducted the "judgment" in the name of "angels" and declared that Diga was the real "devil."
The Diga who always protects people is said to be a demon, and an illusory angel of the Kiriellods makes many people "switch doors".
And the strengthened Kiri-Elliot Ii type II suppressed Diga Ultraman the whole time. At the critical time, the captain of the victory team, Jumei Hui, spoke to the crowd through the TV station, asking everyone to wake up and use their own strength to support the Diga who protected everyone on weekdays.
Under the power of the crowd's "light" (not only physically, of course), Diga revived and defeated the enemy.
Here appears a very classic shot, the "world famous painting" of the whole play.
On the right side of the building is Michelangelo's famous fresco "Creation of Adam" in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, which tells the story of God's creation of the world's first human Adam in the Bible.
But in this situation, Diga Ultraman, whose strength and role are more like "gods", is the party that is created, and what creates him is the "light" in people's hands and hearts. This idea, I think, is still far from enough to describe it with "humanism".
It is not difficult to see from the plot that "Diga" has understood the routine of imperialism and hegemonism, and it is a very clear stand against the enslavement and oppression of mankind. This was a rare and valuable event in the 1990s, when the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were drastically changed, when neoliberalism celebrated victory and ran rampant around the world.
But Diga, on the other hand, does not attempt to give a "final answer."
(Fukuyama said it was very good)
Especially in the second half of the series, there are many situations in which the dark and light sides of human beings are presented at the same time. The most representative is the view of war presented in episode 28.
Affected by the increasing use of electromagnetic waves by humans, the "Lightning Man", who was also a creature of the Earth, mutated and attacked humans from time to time, and humans intended to launch a major campaign to completely annihilate the Lightning Man, while humans on the other side of the battlefield also fought with monsters.
The views of different actors on this matter are extremely divergent.
Lina and Dagu believe that it is the use of electromagnetic waves by humans to harm the lightning people like this, and that eliminating the lightning people without solving the problem of electromagnetic waves is not a cure, and Lina also put forward the idea that humans should be ashamed.
Horai said very realistically, human beings can not progress without the development and expansion of the use of electromagnetic waves, threatening human life.
Xincheng, Ye Rui and others believe that in the face of the real threat of the Lightning People to mankind, it is necessary to strengthen their strength and eliminate them.
And when he really went to the battlefield, facing the tragic death of his comrades under the power of the monster, Ye Rui finally deeply saw the cruelty of war.
Shinto's sister, Nurse Manami, who has a similar view of war to Lina, asks him if he is not afraid of death when he heals Nori's wounds, which triggers a debate between the two about the issue.
Nori's answer is to maintain peace and not be afraid of death, and Masayuki's point of view is that everyone lays down their weapons, isn't there no war?
So, the point is, the plot's next shaping of Ye Rui and the transformation of the Great Ancient War Concept is a highlight.
When the monster struck again and the people around him were threatened, he shouted "How can I not be afraid of death" while bravely rushing up to fight.
Dagu asked "Digha, why fight", transformed into Diga to fight monsters, and realized this truth:
Dagu and Norui, who originally had very different views, almost agreed:
Even if the other party is a "monster", if the enemy comes to threaten his loved one, he must take up arms to fight.
Is there a cruelty that shapes war? Yes, but either it is just "reflection" or simply and rudely "anti-war". This anti-war view, you have watched so many years of literary and artistic works, how many of them can reach the level of "Diga" in 1996?
At the same time, it should also be noted that Lina and Masumi have a partial view of war as "Our Lady" and Horii's realistic view of ensuring human development and progress, and "Diga" does not deny it, but allows all kinds of views with their "correctness" to coexist, not that those who shout that they are not afraid of sacrificing bravely to resist the enemy are militants, nor do they mean that those who hope to lay down their weapons without war must be capitulators.
This is exactly what the crow thinks is the most valuable thing about the work of "Diga".
If you open the bullet screen to brush "Diga", you will find that the bullet screen is much more anxious than the plot, and the plot begins to talk about the dark side of human beings, what "human beings are the cancer of the earth", "human beings are not worth saving" What is first brushed in the bullet screen, one by one immediately becomes a reflection monster.
For example, in episode 27 "See, Obic", in order to let the village return to his memory, Obik deliberately attacked humans to achieve the purpose of intimidation, let people flee elsewhere, and restored the village to its dark appearance at night.
The old appearance of the village and the development of human beings are often not combined, "Diga" does not have an absolute right or wrong distinction on this issue, Obik's nostalgia is not wrong and is very touching and resonant, but it does not say that industrialization modernization and changing the appearance of the old village are wrong. But the barrage is obviously much more pessimistic and melancholy than the plot.
Another example is the words of Ziggela's flower, human beings are as addicted to the wonderful illusions brought by Ziggela as they were thirty million years ago, and in the middle of the plot, luke, a super-ancient human, believes that human beings are not at all advanced than they were then, and famously said that "human desires are deeper than The roots of Ziggela".
At this time, the barrage has been brushed up "right" and "regressed".
But this is actually to say that there are two sides to human nature. In the later plot, the human beings represented by Dagu overcame the shackles of desire and chose to change, destroying the Chijella flower.
Luke saw this and also sparked a new understanding:
This is what "Diga" wants to express, can we be so anxious to sentence human beings to death...
You know, the bullet screens are not all minors. Quite a big person, or can not avoid the diode, encounter the impact of ideas directly jump to the other side. If a work is just a simple "unveiling" and "reflection", this may be the biggest "evil code" for children who are still forming the three views of the mind.
The calm, tolerant attitude of Digha in the face of a tit-for-tat conflict of "right ideas" is difficult for most content producers, including myself, to achieve.
Maybe "Diga" is not absolutely suitable for children, but when children grow up trying to understand complex and real society for the first time, at least I am very happy to recommend this work.
Parents should not be busy reporting because of a few horror shots, you may wish to go to see it yourself, presumably there will be some gains.
Resources:
Bilibili genuine drama "Diga Ultraman" (national version)