"Wolf": Betray each other, love each other

Daphne 2022-03-26 09:01:14

あなたの爱をもっとぬくもりをもっと

あふれるほどに

あなたの爱をもっとぬくもりをもっと

feel じていたかった

In the second half of the movie, the melody of CHAGE & ASKA's old song "Men and Women" began to linger in my mind, especially the few lyrics in the chorus part seemed to express the heart of the hero and heroine of "Wolf" . However, there is an indestructible iron curtain between Fu Yigui and Amamiya Kei, making it difficult for each other's love and warmth to go further. The gunshots sounded, and the pair of men and women were separated forever like a businessman.

"Wolf" was once known as "the last high-level celluloid animation of the 20th century". Take a look at the list of staff behind the scenes - screenwriter Oshii Mamoru, director Okiura Kiyuki, assistant director Kamiyama Kenji, painting director Tetsuya Nishio, Art director Hiroshi Ogura, firearms setting Kazuya Kise, vehicle setting Masashi Hiramatsu, music Mizoguchi Hajime... With such a luxurious lineup, it is hard not to produce great works.

The film is often classified as the work of Mamoru Oshii. Although the great god only acts as the screenwriter, it is not far from the same, because the story was originally based on the comic "Legend of the Dog and Wolf" jointly created by Oshii Mamoru and Fujiwara Kamui. Taking "The Legend of Dogs and Wolfs" as the mother book, a series of adaptations such as "Red Glasses" and "Hound Dog" have been derived. Throughout the series, Mamoru Oshii has fictionalized a parallel post-war era of the Showa era. Out of the love for German equipment, this alternate world assumes that Germany won the Soviet-German war over the Soviet Union, and replaced the United States to rebuild Japan. A large number of German ordnance appearing in the film also comes from this.

In the 1950s, Japan forced a rapid economic restructuring policy in order to re-emerge under the rule of the occupying army. Although it achieved rapid economic growth, it also suffered from many root causes. Overly tough economic policies have resulted in a huge number of unemployed people, the widening gap between the rich and the poor in society, the surge in vicious violent crimes, and the birth of left-wing anti-government forces that advocate armed struggle. In fact, although this is an overhead world, it has an unprecedented similarity with the reality of post-war Japan. As a witness of the student movement in those years, Mamoru Oshii's creation is not without purpose.

If an era of moral and human degeneration and no justice is the background of the story, then the open and secret struggle between military police and anti-government organizations, and even between the bureaucracy itself, is the main storyline throughout "Legend of Dogs and Wolves". The anti-government organization "SECT", the autonomous police, the Metropolitan Police and its subordinate special forces and the Ministry of Public Security constitute an extremely complicated situation. In such a situation of political turmoil and everyone's self-intimidation, the individual is like a dead leaf in the torrent of the times, and there is no sense of existence except to follow the trend. Human nature is buried under a thick shell, and there are only indifference, suspicion and use among people.

"Wolf" continues this series, or the style of Oshii Mamoru's works. The tone is gloomy, the action is realistic, and the atmosphere is gloomy. The exquisite scenes and concise characters show a unique sense of the times and heaviness, creating an extremely real overhead world, which deepens the psychological depression of the audience and highlights the seriousness of the theme. gray. However, in this seemingly hard-line series, "Wolf" is more like a love episode between a tough guy and a girl. Behind it is the intrigue within the capital police, and in front of the stage is a pair of ants-like young men and women who can't get rid of their fate.

Fu Yigui is a member of the capital police special team and the backbone of the military suppression of anti-government organizations. At the same time, he is also a member of the secret organization "Human Wolf" responsible for eliminating ghosts in the organization. In a mission to hunt down anti-government forces, Fu Yigui was dismissed from his post for failing to kill Achuan, a girl from the "Little Red Riding Hood" who transported ammunition for "SECT", causing Achuan to detonate her bomb. Out of conscience, Fu Yigui asked his classmates at the Capital Police Department of Public Security to investigate Achuan's identity. Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Public Security, which is subordinate to Oe Jian, colluded with the autonomous police who tried to replace the special fleet, and wanted to force the disbandment of the special fleet by creating a scandal. Therefore, Yumi took advantage of Fu Yigui's trust and arranged for another "Little Red Riding Hood" member who was captured earlier and looked exactly like A Chuan, Amamiya Kei, disguised as A Chuan's sister, to approach Fu Yigui, thus fabricating a special team member and a female terror. Molecular scandal. However, Handa, the vice-captain of the special aircraft team and the leader of the "Wolf", had already seen through the plan of the Ministry of Public Security, and instructed Fu Yigui to take the opportunity to eliminate the forces of the anti-special aircraft team one by one.

In the shaping of the characters, the shapes of the members of the special aircraft team are the most distinctive and symbolic in the whole film. Black armor, sturdy heavy machine guns, red night vision goggles, like a group of wild wolves wandering in the dark night, are synonymous with ferocity, despair, death and bestiality. In fact, most of the characters in the film who should have "human nature" are also full of "beast nature": the young girl A Chuan has a calmness that does not match her age, and her young mind has long been distorted by the cruel living environment. Indifferent to the bloodshed and even death; in order to consolidate his position, the Minister of Public Security, the official Shito, did not hesitate to join forces with the theoretically hostile autonomous police to clear out the special aircraft team that also belonged to the capital police; He provides help, but secretly sets a trap, the cunning of human nature is fully revealed in him, and he can easily betray friends for his own benefit.

On the contrary, Fu Yigui, the representative of "beast nature", has repeatedly shown the "human nature" side. For example, when he met Achuan on a mission, he couldn't bear to start, or when he got along with Kei Amemiya, he didn't feel angry even if he knew that the other party was the bait arranged by the Ministry of Public Security, and even risked his life to kill her. Rescue the siege. "Wolf" is an image that runs through the whole film. On the one hand, the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" is constantly intertwined with the plot, but the more cruel version is chosen, and it ends with the wolf swallowing Little Red Riding Hood, which is consistent with the tragic ending of the film. On the other hand, there was also an illusion of Fu Yigui. In the hallucination, he stood on the side of the wolves, facing Kei Amamiya on the other side of the iron gate, and watched the wolves tear the girl to pieces.

Fu Yigui is a mortal, but after all, he is a member of the "human wolf". The film vividly shows his struggle between human nature and animal nature, as well as the hesitation between the moral bottom line and the way of life. Fate arranged for the hero and heroine to meet in lie and betrayal, but inadvertently fall in love with each other. Two people who are sinful and deceive each other, but they love so much. Not being able to stay with the one you love is already a tragedy, and the cruel fate of having to kill your lover with your own hands is even more heart-wrenching.

This is the helplessness of fate, but also the weeping book of love. This is a fictional tragedy, as well as a realist tragedy. Mamoru Oshii once again brought us a huge shock to our hearts with his unique courage. In such an era when human nature and animal nature are reversed, fate cannot be in one's own hands. Cunning and despicable people are like a duck to water, but those who truly love each other are struggling, and there is only a dead end and an iron curtain waiting for them. When Fu Yigui finally chose to follow the organization, with the sound of the gunshot, a wave of grief spewed out, followed by deep powerlessness. Humans and wolves, after all, cannot be together.

Can you give me more of your love, give me more of your warmth

until it floats around

Can you give me more of your love, give me more of your warmth

I want to stay in its arms forever

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Extended Reading
  • Elroy 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Only in the story of man and wolf written by people, people will win. In reality, in the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, even if the Big Bad Wolf falls in love with Little Red Riding Hood, he will still kill her. Women crave, Wang Jiazhi will always have it, but all they encounter are Mr. Yi.

  • Teagan 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    The style of painting is obviously the style of Oshii Mamoru, but the style is not very similar, but it is equally cold. Sure enough, many animations in Japan are not suitable for children to watch, which will cause adverse effects. This subject matter cannot be approved in China at all. This dark, cruel and sad style doesn't suit me, it's too boring

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade quotes

  • Kei Amemiya: What big eyes you have... what big teeth you have!