Atypical Oshii Mamoru

Cade 2022-02-07 14:57:17

First of all, this is of course a work by Mamoru Oshii, and then this is not like a work by Mamoru Oshii.

From Ghost in the Shell to Human Wolf, any movies related to Oshii Mamoru are usually evaluated as "boring", "incomprehensible", and "inexplicable". However, this does not prevent his works from winning all kinds of praise and fans who are suspected of being masochistic.

So, I went to see "Aerial Killer" with this kind of awareness.

Countless people wailed after seeing it: What an air battle! What love! Platypus, you pay me for time! I can only sneer at this. After all, if Mamoru Oshii really wants to make romance films and aerial combat films, it is not just the download party of the Chinese dynasty who will be mourning. I am afraid that some people in Japan will lament that the tide of the market economy has finally made Mamoru Oshii succumb... ...

Actually, the reason that he doesn't look like Oshii Mamoru's work is because he made compromises between business and the audience, such as hiring big-name actors as voice actors, and propaganda claiming to write love stories.

But the above gimmicks are just lies, and may trick a few young couples into the cinema to share the romance in the air, but those desperate stills and bluntly stylized cuts contain what the director really wants to express. In this sense, this is another typical Oshii Mamoru work.

Taken together, "The Sky Crawlers" is a masterpiece of Oshii Mamoru's wolf's skin and sheep's skin. At first, it showed people with harmless faces, and when inexperienced audiences approached, they revealed their bloody mouths.

Now let's talk about the film itself.

"The war of a group of young children", faced with this proposition, what kind of associations will you have?

Said to be a child, but he swallowed and drank and strolled around the kiln, and he did not fall behind. However, whether it is the owner of the tavern, the maintenance aunt of the base, or even the kiln sisters, they all look at them with pity and sympathy. Because these people are "adults," outsiders to the game, spectators who pay for tickets. Those who were idly watching the war news, everyone was doing their bit for the war cause of Rostock and Lautern.

Those "air killers" who participated in the war simply took off, fought, landed (if not killed), and lived like company employees. A group of teenagers, rebellious and impulsive, shouted at those watching the wreckage of the fighter jet: "Don't insult them with words like pity". Fang Sheng Fang died, Fang died Fang Sheng, and lived a life of immutability. The teacher is the limit they can never surpass, a god-like existence in the identity of an "adult".

"I don't grow up..." It's

not that I can't grow up, but I don't want to grow up. Faced with the fate that I might die tomorrow, what's the point of growing up?

Kusao Sui Su gave birth to a child. As a child, she actually gave birth to a child. She lived for at least 8 years and was a tired teenager for 8 years. But what about fate? Children's destiny is to grow up, but for Kiltlian, their destiny is to fight, then die, resurrect as children, and keep fighting. What about having a baby? How can you live longer than your partner? "Before anything can be changed, you must live." But to live means to witness reincarnation again and again, and at the end of reincarnation, even if the teacher is shot down, will things change? Students always want to rebel against their teachers, but don't they want to graduate and become "adults" in the end?

"Even if you have traveled countless times, you can reach places you have never set foot on."
"Because you have traveled countless times, the scenery changes."
"Just like this, isn't it enough?"
"Because it's just So, isn't that enough?"

But for us viewers, this path can only be taken once. Is this lucky or unfortunate?

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Extended Reading
  • Blaze 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    The mission screen is very general, a little rough, but the flight screen is not bad.

  • Tatyana 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    The Eternal Peace Era that made Schmidt indignant, the war game simulation of the high-tech taming era, the symbolic exchange led to the real death competition, the young Werther who completed the murder of his father, the reincarnated historicist Superman. No wonder uncle likes it, he should make up for Senbo's masterpiece when he has time