After several twists and turns, the many-time ticket-hopping "Glitter Hasavi" still failed to be released on a large scale in domestic theaters, but the good news is that domestic video websites quickly bought the rights to the film; the bad news is that the version you can see on the video website is specially available...
The time in the film is pulled to the year UC105 of the Cosmic Century – a full 12 years have passed since the 0093 Shaya Rebellion. During this period, the power under the Earth's federal government became more solid, but at the same time more privileged classes hatched within it, and the ruling institutions became more decayed.
As the son of legendary captain Brad Noah and even Hasavi, who lived through the 0093 war, Hathaway is determined to overthrow the corrupt Earth Federation rule.
This short plot synopsis alone mentions a number of important figures in the Cosmic Century worldview and major events that have had a profound impact on the history of his worldview. This content is absolutely a treasure for gundam fans, but it is obscure to viewers who are not yet familiar with the Gundam worldview and related works.
This is also the biggest shackle that Gundam IP currently faces if it wants to go further in commercial development and attract new people into the pit, that is, a very high entry threshold. To put it bluntly, the more the audience wants to understand the Gundam works launched after the launch, the more they must fully appreciate the spiritual theme in them, and the more homework they have to do.
Gundam, especially the cosmic century, the main line of the world view, is large and complex, with a large number of characters, and attaches great importance to the exploration of politics.
Years of accumulation, the depiction of war from different perspectives in many works, supports the "Gundam core" with full interpretation space and historical precipitation. Over-interpreted, characters, bodies, and opposing cosmic colonization satellites and the Earth Federation can all find the projection of realistic archetypes in human history to a greater or lesser extent. This determines that the Gundam series itself is not suitable for production in order to expand the audience and follow the "pan-entertainment" model.
Therefore, "Glittering Hasavi" should and must be a movie with core fan orientation. This also reveals Bandai's thinking: for expanding gundam's audience or selling commercial purposes such as glue, it is better to give animation under the sub-supply or side worldview. But what really determines the basis and vitality of the commercial value is the work of the UC worldview. This is the most important thing, and we need to be extra careful not to make the most loyal and critical part of the fans dissatisfied.
The first impression of "Glittering Hassavi" is a sense of the handover of the times. Those heroes who are famous and have made great achievements in battle may either go into hiding or go away. The Earth circle continues to decay, old contradictions need to be resolved urgently, and new contradictions are constantly being born. This is the year of UC105, science and technology continue to advance, and the cosmic century has passed a full 100 years.
But before the audience could sigh at the vicissitudes, the film quickly focused on Hasavi's character. The main contradictions of the film are internalized as the internal contradictions of Hasavi himself. The plot of this film is also mainly driven by multiple contradictions in Hasavi's body.
Hasavi has shaya's romantic factor and leadership temperament, and also agrees with Shaya's political ideas of destroying the Earth Federation. But his rational, calm, and calm personality is clearly similar to Amro. Its own two distinct personality traits form a unity of opposites within the characters. Therefore, it is difficult to simply say that he is the inheritor of Shaya's legacy, or a simple hero like Amro. This is the first level of contradiction.
Whether it was When Hassavi remotely directed the actions of the organizations he led, or in his rare leisure time, he never stopped questioning his heart: Is this the right thing to do? It is said that as commander-in-chief, we should recognize and resolutely implement our concepts, wills and policies. But Hasavi never stopped his spirit of "knowing things", asking himself, asking others, and even completely treating himself as a third party who did not care about himself, and continued to ask questions. He disagrees with the "terrorism" he has single-handedly led, but this is a last resort to achieve higher goals. Such extraordinary and even necessary rationality finally brought great pain to Hasavi on the emotional level.
As the first part of the series, in addition to introducing the world view, this film also explains the growth of Hasavi as a leader of the party. As the irreplaceable leader of the organization, Hasavi sorted out his hesitation in the second half of the film and recognized his responsibility - leading the organization internally and practicing the will externally. As a symbol, he also repeats the fate of the protagonists of the previous Gundam: to board the fuselage and become a real Gundam pilot.
In addition to the contradictions contained in Hasavi himself, the triangular relationship between Kiki, Kenneth, and Hasavi is also the focus of the film.
Kiki is a charismatic and dangerous woman who, at first, shows the differences in her dealings with Hasavi and Kennes, active and seductive, cunning and weak. Her vacillation between the two is a reproduction of the "triangular relationship" between Amro, Chaya and Lala. It is clear that Kiki's right and left Fengyuan have deeply touched the thorn (killing Aois) in Hasavi's heart. Although a lot of content needs to be further explained, the competition for women's emotional level, the confrontation between Hasavi and Keynes under different positions will be the key contradiction in the follow-up of "Shining Hasavi".
The ethnic identity between the new and the old is the enduring theme of the Gundam Cosmic Century. For this, the film has not yet focused on showing. And it is commendable that the film removes the performance of the "god stick" of the new human spiritual power that has been criticized by Gundam in the past. Of course, this also brings a small flaw, that is, in the encounter between Cauchy Gundam and Penelope at the end of the film, the expressiveness of the telepathic missiles used by the two sides is slightly reduced, and it seems to be indistinguishable from ordinary full-bomb launches.
In the Gundam worldview, all of Man's guided weapons are unusable due to the spread of Minovsky particles (hence the back and forth of these bulky iron blocks). Therefore, the psychic missile is actually an advanced weapon of the floating cannon, and it is the latest crystallization of human technology. This is also a demonstration of the new human capabilities of hasavi.
The film also has some dark lines that are less obvious but worth chewing. When his subordinates informed that some scattered soldiers under the banner of Mafti had taken the initiative to overture the organization and ask for "recruitment", Hasavi was not impressed. This aspect shows that the name "Mafti" already has the potential to be named and become a symbol of an idea in the future, like Shaya. At the same time, Hasavi's reaction is basically equivalent to abandoning the line of "mass struggle" and looking down on these "scattered soldiers and brave soldiers" very much. This is typical of Yuji Tomino's thinking, and the embodiment of the Japanese understanding of "revolution" of their generation, such as Yuji Tomino and Katsuyo Otomo, who were always conservative and vigilant about the "masses" because they experienced a vigorous and finally ended security movement when they were young.
Hasavi's dangerous moves were also acquired, and later he sat on the Cauchy Gundam as he wished, fully demonstrating the importance he attached to this military weapon. Judging from the confidence of the entire organization after the return of the Gundam, it seems that the Japanese "superweapon" complex (the construction of the Yamato) in the late World War II period also reappeared. It seems that as long as there is a super weapon, it will be able to turn the tide, and by constantly establishing local tactical advantages, it will eventually achieve strategic advantages. I wonder if this will set the stage for Hasavi's final outcome.
In the film, Hasavi is shown browsing a webpage with information about Shaya, which seems to imply a spiritual and conceptual inheritance. But apart from the fact that the means used are equally extreme, the two concepts have nothing in common. Throughout her life, Chaya carried the name of the son of Gion Deken, and she was also burdened by it. His main appeal was to establish an identity conducive to the new humanity. To this end, he did not hesitate to force all human beings to go to earth, and wanted to essentially eliminate all the old human races that settled on the earth--everyone became new human beings, and there was no difficulty in identity level--so Xia Ya was too idealistic and radical and reckless.
Judging from the information given in the current film, Hasavi seems to have no intention of sticking to his own identity issues. He jumped out of the box of identity with the aim of eliminating the decadent system that had brought heavy calamity to the "people" and establishing a circle of earth suitable for "all" (both new and old) to inhabit. So although both are intended to destroy the Earth Federation, the political demands of Hasavi and Shaya are very different, and Hasavi is obviously higher than Xiaya in terms of pattern.
Of course, judging from the ending of the novel, Hasavi underestimated the power of the system and clearly did not understand its operating mechanism, which eventually led to his personal tragedy. Here I also look forward to the subsequent presentation and answers to this aspect of the entire film series.