"Wolf": Two huddled souls under the night

After the nuclear explosion in the 1950s, Japan was a country in pessimism, despair and chaos. People born in that era especially empathize with different childhoods, and thus derive a variety of unique desires. There are hope masters who are full of romantic fantasies about the future like Hayao Miyazaki, filling the imperfect reality with the fantasy worlds of "Castle in the Sky" and "Nausicaa". There is also Otomo Keyang who directly concocted the bright warrior Akira to fight against all the sadness and cruelty in reality. The original author of this film, Mamoru Oshii, is the most objective and rational in telling the hard-pressed people living in dire straits that reality is cruel, and there is no room for any romantic fantasy. Only a wolf in human skin can get half a breath in the world of your life and death.

This film is such a cold masterpiece that can not tolerate the slightest love between children. Even if you are an outstanding warrior, even if you are as fierce and cruel as a wolf in front of the enemy, even if you are so conceited that you can leave a little pity for yourself to savor the warmth of the world, but reality is reality, and the tenderness you thought was originally Another trap set by people. Because, in the cruel reality, no one has a true self, everyone is a pawn to be used, and your tenderness is just an opportunity used by the enemy to kill you. Only by deeply understanding this point and becoming a real "human wolf" can you earn a place for yourself to survive in this world.

The film uses the personal experience of excellent police officers to demonstrate this brutal reality battle. A little girl exploded in front of her in the form of a human flesh bomb. In order to mourn her weak soul, she met her sister at the tomb. She thought she could help her sister to relieve her wounded heart, but in the end, her sister just pretended to be framed. Another tool of their own, the police saw through this, and made "sister" their own tool, and found the real murderer and killed him on the spot. The warmth of getting along day and night vanished in an instant, no matter how many pleas and beggings, in the end, it ended with a firm gunshot. In the world of wolves, no fairy tales are allowed. No matter how poignant and touching the story of Little Red Riding Hood is, it is only a human story.

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