Aerial Killer: Crawling Humblely in the Dirt

Chadrick 2022-02-07 14:57:17

Flip out The Sky Crawlers at least once a year. If it weren't for Oshii Mori's die-hard loyalists, he wouldn't know how much courage this 60-year-old old leftist who "started to run the second lap of his life" gave his hope to young people.

The plot is so simple that no retelling is necessary. Everything to be said is melted in the eastern European-style city, sometimes cold and sometimes warm light, lazy post-war society, and nowhere to place in the blue sky.

As a minor, the Eternal Son is full of food, drink, prostitution, gambling, and smoking. "Do people who are going to die tomorrow still need to grow up?" The

child does not mean that he has no ability, but is deprived of hope for the future and imprisoned in endless trivialities. in daily life. They have no freedom and no responsibility. Birds soaring in the sky are really just in cages.

My friends, myself, have a sense of loss that doesn't grow beyond a certain age. Skills are accumulating, and common sense of social people can also be cultivated, but the whole person is like an eternal child, forever aging and forever naive.

The ever-changing scenery under the repeated paths. So intoxicating. There is no difference between today and yesterday, and there is no difference between last year and this year. Without freedom and responsibility, there is no history. No change, no past to remember, no choice, no pain.

But is this not enough? Or, is it not enough because of this?

There are only two episodes in the aerial killer that can be counted as "preaching". One is Kusanagi Mizusu repeating the official rhetoric of the "adults" in the world in the hotel. The dolls are stacked together. This is the "decree" from the adults; the second is that Mitsuya poured out his loneliness and helplessness to Hannan Yuyi, and Hannan Yuyi was silent in response. These two bridge sections are rather a reaction to the previous style rather than a re-emergence of Oshii Shou.

The revolutionaries in the Mobile Police and Ghost in the Shell burned themselves, tacitly acquiescing to the "status quo" tolerance and compromise in pain.

The aerial killer Hannan Yuichi changed the ending of the original work, instead of killing his lover, he said, "You must live until things change." After hearing this, Kusanagi Sizumi burst into tears while hugging her lover.

Will defeating Teacher (Father) make a difference? Nobody knows. But there will always be Renlang or Youyi who will challenge again and again, and Hui Su will live in pain and face the death of his lover again and again.

Aerial killers are for young people who are stagnant and confused on the journey of life: whether it is an autocratic country or an overbearing society, it is unrealistic to expect to rely on personal consciousness to defeat them, but the very thing of being alive means consciousness. To know who you are is not only to see new scenery on the familiar road, but also to look forward to a new world that has not even existed in fantasy until now.

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Extended Reading
  • Tyreek 2022-02-07 14:57:17

    The whole film is sombre tones and alienated characters and dialogues, the truth of the Eternal Son, war is a game of peace, we are the gears of reincarnation, a screw that rotates the world. Can we break free after traveling countless distances? Do you want to resist the rules of the game? In the gloomy hail of bullets, hoping for a poetic abyss is one step closer to death. What's more, what we are fighting against is huge and invisible.

  • Annette 2022-03-14 14:12:30

    The godfather is the GM, and the player is reincarnating repeatedly, the heroine is the only player who wants to defeat the godfather, and the hero Hannan Yuichi is the reincarnation of the former driver who died.