1. About "Escape"
Both "Delusional Agent" and "EVA" explore the issue of "escape":
EVA focuses on the interior, i.e. personal life experiences;
"Delusional Agent" focuses on the outside, that is, the emotional and spiritual crisis of modern industrial society: high pressure, anxiety, apathy, involution, deformity...
Interestingly, the outbreak of the entire social and spiritual world crisis (outside) in the animation also came from the female designer's childhood fictional "Boy Boy" to escape his father's accountability for the puppy's death (inside).
"The reality that I lost my destination is my real destination." The lost police officer Pig Shou, in reality, is a policeman who is behind the times. He even resigned because of the "Baby Boy" case and lost his honor, respect and job. , and could not face the sickly and childless wife, and finally walked out of the immersed old world under the guidance of the dying lady. Madam is a very bright character in the play, the only one who can summon the "Boy Boy" head-on and beat him psychologically.
2. "Victim" and "harmless" evasion
There is a sentence in the film:
"Baby Boy" is the same as the pet idol "Marumi".
yes. They are exactly two ways that everyone escapes from reality:
One is "victim".
As long as I am injured by the non-existent "Baby Boy", I can escape DDL, blame, frame, relax, sympathize, and forgive. This has led to countless people starting from Satsuki, imitating Satsuki, turning "Boy Boy" into an agent to realize their delusions, and obtaining a short-term relief.
The other is "harmless".
In other words, the American-style "harmless" of the pet doll Malu: I look so weak, how can I do bad things and hurt people?
It can be said that the "culprit" Satsuki has gradually formed a cute "harmless" character from a fictional "victim" in her childhood, and has become her own umbrella. (Of course, there may also be other reasons such as childhood shadows)
Ma Lumei is also a cute and harmless puppy doll, popular in society, and even the funeral bouquets are also changed to Ma Lumei. It is highly sought after, and it is also related to the deep-seated psychology of people suffering from anxiety and suffering in the industrial society who desire safety, harmlessness and spiritual support.
Ma Lumei can also be regarded as a social culture such as video games, short videos, and consumption.
3. Level
The opening song is really magical, and the constant twitching laughter of each character is chilling, and the more you watch it, the more you see it.
The characters in the animation have multiple levels in their hearts, and the characters themselves also represent many levels of social characters. The first part is basically an episode and a case, but it is not handled in a traditional unit drama, but all the characters are related, which is very clever.
From episodes one to nine of the animation, it can be regarded as a detective film; with the ninth episode of the housewives chatting in the community, the social status quo has become: the "baseball boy" has become a real, ubiquitous mysterious murderer, and even chaotic It has become a rumor in the public after writing works such as "The Last Leaf" and "Robinson Crusoe"... Since then, the style of the episodes has changed greatly, and it can be regarded as a fantasy film - but it is actually very realistic.
One may be a metaphorical expression, concretizing the baseball boy as a demon, concretizing the spiritual desolation of the real world into a scene after the war, and so on;
The second can also be understood as the world seen from the perspective of the two police officers who also had delusions.
Jin Min's style, or specialty, is also very good at expressing "virtual" things: dreams, fantasies, memories, dramas in plays, schizophrenia... And in terms of shots and plots, he can handle the "virtual" in a defiant way. Combination", making the virtual and the real in the whole work, and this film is no exception.
4. His mutual encounters
The third episode is full of the shadow of "Weima's Ministry": split personalities, one strong and one weak, competing for the body, accusing each other of "fakes". And the "fights" of self-imagination on the street...
The non-existent criminals and the real imitators make the case intertwined. One of the two police officers thinks that there are real criminals, and the other insists that they are all imaginary criminals. Finally, they part ways and fall into their inner demons.
Very similar to "The Laughing Man" in "Ghost in the Shell", and later "Individual Eleven", the "Stand Alone Complex" in the animation - a group of people made without organization or joint planning. The same choice or behavior. It's like "several versions of the same without the base". The two works have the same effect.
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