It's hard to imagine that director Jin Min, who seems so peaceful, has such a disruptive structure of facts, as if setting up a barrier, separating the truth and introducing it layer by layer, arousing the audience's strong desire to find out the truth. Dig out the dirty, ugly, disgusting places in life and show them to the audience with animation. He doesn't look crazy at all.
At the beginning of the opening, the characters in the play stand on the smoky ruins, in the middle of the road where vehicles pass, between the garbage dump, and the collapsed houses, and there are some gray areas in front. Then, on the mountains and on the grass, there are beautiful places, which also implies that this film is not a gray ending, and finally there will be a new life built on the ruins.
At the end of the film, everyone fell asleep on the grass in the sun. It turns out that such a hideous character in the play can be so quiet and cute.
The incident happened: the design of the new animation image in charge of Lu Yuezi was delayed, and at the same time, he was ostracized and hostile by colleagues because of the successful design of the pet dog Malumi last time. He was attacked on his way home one night, but there were no witnesses present, Lu Yuezi only vaguely remembered that the boy was probably in the sixth grade of elementary school, wearing golden roller skates, and knocking her out with a golden baseball gang . The following people in Tokyo were attacked by baseball boys one after another. Everyone panicked to guess who this baseball boy was? The police also began to collect various clues to try to catch the real murderer.
In life, there will be fear, disgust, pain and all kinds of things that I dare not face directly. If reality forces you to do it, someone will run away, avoid it, and find a replacement. The name "Delusional Agent" is to find another person who is split out of his personality, and let the humble, weak, incompetent and dull self find a substitute and a reason for existence. Or they have been suppressed for too long, unable to express their whole self openly. Over time, they have become more and more extreme and angry, and they have become a person with another personality. The other self hidden under the surface may become extremely self-confident, become very slutty, crazy, or perverted.
As the attacks unfolded one by one, the Metal Bat Boy, a sixth-grader, caused panic in Tokyo. He began to appear in front of various escapists. People are using this character to fulfill their will to escape reality. The bat boy has gradually become an iconic figure, and his appearance is a sign of weakness, incompetence, shirk, division, disgust, persecution, exposure and end of deception. Rather than suffering in pain, people want to end with an injury.
The image of the baseball boy has been repeatedly awakened and used by people, which can be said to represent the fear and deterioration in people's hearts, prompting people to vent, escape, and betray. It is the specific image of that demon. People don't know how to deal with that, wrong, weak, lustful self. Dare to face the responsibilities that should be shouldered and the desolate reality. Desperate, use Lu Yuezi's questions one by one to exert his ability to escape. Escape from responsibility, escape, escape from grief. Escapism is false relief. He appears around the cornered man whenever and wherever, rumors fuel him growth, imagination feeds him.
Inner demons are also something that has been emphasized, evil desires. I'm wondering if the civilization has developed to this day, and the collective life is harmful to the individual? It's not like living in groups now to protect themselves from being eaten by other races. The relationship between people has deteriorated into an existence of oppression and persecution. Next, the confusion, split personality, incest, indifference, selfishness, and blood that erupted under extremely depressed and painful conditions became the true face covered under normal nerves, and everyone was in so much pain that they had to tear apart their original self. The time is the time of destruction. After all, Thoreau also verified that living alone by the lake, reducing desires can be very happy. What a hard, what an obvious wound. The knot of violence and division can always bring a feeling of confusion, the intersection of the real divided reality and the illusion, in the end, there is no such thing as true or false, what is left is just the burst of confusion and violent power, the outlet of catharsis returns to reality, hard. Wounds, in fact, only the pain that touches the flesh and blood is the road to awakening and redemption.
The style of director Jin Min is the same as that of the masterpiece "Delusional Agent". Don't confuse the audience with the illusion of romance and beauty. It's like showing the audience a fresh wound next, watching him fester and abscess. Audiences must accept all kinds of ugly truths before they can redeem themselves. This is the theme he presents the most. People like to play the protagonists of various evil illusions. Let them go. One day, people who are tired of playing will always reflect. In short, a person's desire is greater than his happiness. Put the disgusting look of reality in front of you and issue a warning.
The development of the plot is that each episode will have a story of a person being attacked, and they have various connections to each other. Like episode nine. 3 netizens met, an old man, a young man, and a little girl, and made an appointment to seek death together. This story is indeed the most light-hearted episode expressed in the entire show. The music is also very tricky. Take the easy way out of your fear of death. The feeling that life and death was an illusion came out. The three of them were actually ghosts, thinking that they had not died yet. Think about how they scared the bat boy away, and no one felt it when the photo was inserted, and in this episode, the three of them have been communicating with each other, and they have not spoken to other people at all.
It did bring a lot of surprises at the end. In fact, Lu Yuezi has always been a schizophrenic who escapes reality. She created the illusion of a baseball boy and deceived herself. Because of the imagination and rendering of various demons in people's hearts, she made him a terrifying existence on the spot. So much so that this force finally swallowed Tokyo.
"Delusional Agent", although it shows the ugliness, cruelty, wretchedness and disgust of many people. But redemption is the theme, and every Jin Min's film is the same, although the reality is cruel, there are many estrangements, and there are many deceitful and treacherous things. Gotta see hope, right? Isn't the thief's calm redemption a symbol? In fact, the images of Ma Lumei and the baseball boy are both completed by Yuezi. The former is loved by the public, and the latter causes social fear for everyone. exists in everyone's heart.
Non-linear narrative structure, the director's narrative can capture people's hearts, so that I will write more and more, I thought I could appreciate it, but director Jin Min's works don't have a definite answer until the last moment, even if I do. In the end, it's up to the audience to guess the ending. Maybe just like the characters in the story, there is no formal result at all, and the relationship is born from the heart. Dare to face yourself and touch the truth
In the end, the grandfather of the dream at the end of each episode has to pronounce some sort of preview of a rhythm that appears to be a poem or a spell. Replaced by a young police officer. The story that seems to be coming to an end often repeats itself after many years~~~
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