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Lain Iwakura: No matter where you go, everyone's connected.
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Chisa Yomoda: There was no reason for me to stay in the real world any longer. In the real world, it didn't matter if I was there or not. When I realized that, I was no longer afraid of losing my body.
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Lain Iwakura: Why? Why did you die?
Navi [Dictating Chisa's response]: God is here.
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Iwakura, Yasuo: Let me give you one little warning.
Lain Iwakura: Huh?
Iwakura, Yasuo: When it's all said and done, the Wired is just a medium of communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse it with the real world. Do you understand what I'm warning you about?
Lain Iwakura: You're wrong.
Iwakura, Yasuo: Huh?
Lain Iwakura: The border between the two isn't all that clear. I'll be able to enter it soon. In full range. Full motion. I'll translate myself into it.
Iwakura, Yasuo: Even with a top of the line civilian Navi, you couldn't.
Lain Iwakura: I can do it. I've modified mine.
Iwakura, Yasuo: A Psyche processor, huh? But...
Lain Iwakura: Don't worry. I'm still me.
Iwakura, Yasuo: Sometimes I wonder.
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Lain Iwakura: [gasp]
Miho Iwakura: The wired might actually be thought of as a highly advanced upper layer of the real world. In other words, physical reality is nothing but an illusion, a hologram of the information that flows to us through the wired.
Lain Iwakura: But ma...
Miho Iwakura: This is because the body, physical motion, the activity of the human brain is merely a physical phenomenon, simply caused by synapses delivering electrical impulses.
Lain Iwakura: But mom, I...
Miho Iwakura: The physical body exists at a less evolved plane only to verify one's existence in the universe.
Lain Iwakura: Are you really, truly my mother?
Miho Iwakura: [disappears]
Lain Iwakura: Are you?
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Lain Iwakura: People only have substance within the memories of other people. And that's why there were all kinds of mes. There weren't a lot of mes per se, I was just inside all sorts of people, that's all.
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Aida 2022-03-25 09:01:23
Finally finished it after ten years. Such experimental and colorful animations are probably going to sell out in this fast-food era. The narrative technique of stream of consciousness and the sub-mirror of expressionism use a Frankenstein-style story to explore the existence of human beings and the meaning of information transmission, denying structuralism and metaphysics, and affirming language as a weapon evolved by human beings meaning. Humans are by no means mechanical, and memory is not just a copy of information.
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Rhoda 2022-03-25 08:01:01
It is still the virtual world of the Internet that confuses reality. The difference is that this confusion is like a nightmare of David Lynch. The reality is deconstructed by the virtual world. This film deeply considers the current media hindering human development and how human beings evolve. The final result is that human beings radically step up. Contact and cocoon. Lingyin is the god of communication between reality and the Internet. Perhaps in the world we live in, Lingyin is everywhere. This film is a pioneer, both in point of view and experimental author animation.
