Oshii Mamoru "Wolf"
In the world of adults, there is no hunter who seeks justice
I 'm walking alone on the outskirts road
I'm walking alone on the outskirts road
I brought the pastry to my grandmother to taste
She lives in a remote and secluded place
I want to watch out for a big bad wolf nearby
When the sun goes down, I'm going home
Into sweet dreams with mother
When the sun goes down, I'm going home
Into sweet dreams with mother
In "Grimm's Fairy Tales", the adults of Little Red Riding Hood are painted in a dark style, and through dramatic processing, they become readable by children. Those dark and metaphorical plots were deleted, the big bad wolf became a surgical victim with a belly full of stones, the little red riding hood became a silly white sweet, and the passing hunter was a clear child. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, there will always be someone who will stand up - such as those bear parents who "protect the calf".
The animation "Wolf" is to excavate the dark origin version of the story. Using an indoctrination method to make the audience sober, the big bad wolf is a beast, a cannibal and bloodthirsty. Downstream, when bitten and eaten, only flesh and bones are left, and the clothes will not come out of the stomach completely and still be alive.
Welcome to the cruel adult world - a world where you open your mouth and smell blood, either you eat me or I bite you back.
1. Fu Yigui's confusion
In Japan, which was rebuilt after the war, civil rebels were active frequently, and the society was turbulent. Underground organizations continue to rise and grow, among which the organization named "The Sect (sect)" is the most influential. Affected by the terms of defeat, the government was forced to quickly build up a local armed force, the Capital Police. Externally, the Capital Police need to face the public's doubts about the escalation of violent conflicts and continue to suppress various sectarian protests; while the Capital Police is surging inside, the Ministry of Public Security, which is composed of ordinary police, and the police with the most powerful special aircraft team. In the Police Department, the two forces are also competing with each other, and both are fighting for their own political life.
The protagonist of the film, Fu Yigui, is a member of the special aircraft team of the Ministry of National Defense. When performing the mission, Fu Yigui wore iron armor and held an MG42 (a general-purpose machine gun known as Hitler's chainsaw, a murder weapon with obvious Nazi colors, and its metaphor also shows the creator's meticulous care in details) , the night vision device with red light is like an emotionless human weapon, which makes people shudder.
Killing machines also malfunction, and beasts occasionally shed tears as they devour their prey. During one mission, Fu Yigui encountered emotional confusion. While chasing down the fleeing terrorists, Fu met Achuan Qisheng, a member of the "Sect" code-named "Shorthair" - the Little Red Riding Hood in the story.
When Achuan was cornered and forced into a desperate situation by Fu Yigui, she chose to detonate the backpack bomb, and before she died, she left Fu a terrified and determined expression. Why? Why don't you just capture it, why do you have to make the consciousness of death, isn't it bad to live? This is the survival logic of beasts and the emotional logic of human nature. The ideas of people in the two worlds conflict: beasts can do whatever it takes to survive, while people can sacrifice their lives for ideas and demands. (Seeing the character painting style of the film, it is easy to think of Liu Jian's "The Big World", but there is a big gap in the expression and eyesight)
Fu, who was dismissed by investigation, was like a beast walking in the jungle, without hunger, no prey, and no target of action. The whole person was in a state of confusion until one person broke in with a bureau. his life.
2. Another Little Red Riding Hood
Just when Fu followed the clues provided by Yuhi's classmates and found the burial of the deceased girl, the deceased's sister suddenly appeared. This confuses Vol's emotions and has an object to pour out on.
It has to be said that in the process of contact between the two, a considerable part of Fu's emotional investment in his sister came from the debt to his deceased sister. And her sister's optimism seemed to let Fu Yigui off guard and began to accept a person gradually.
When we met for the first time, my sister gave Fu an old version of the story of "Little Red Riding Hood", and the whole film was processed on the basis of this story.
The relationship between the two warmed up. When they came to the playground on the rooftop of the department store, the film explained the meaning of the protagonist's life-he actually found his inner peace and sense of belonging in the killing life of the special plane team. After all, the beast was born in On the battlefield, killing is both an instinct and a need to fill the emptiness in the heart. (When the male protagonist said this, it made people shudder, but there are people who are really attached to this kind of life)
In a nightmare, we can gain a deeper understanding of Fu Yigui's inner world. This is like a contest between two personalities in a human body, one is human nature, and the other is animal nature. The image of the Little Red Riding Hood sisters appeared in front of her eyes. It doesn't matter which one is the sister and which one is the sister. She is an emotional tie for the human side of Fu Yi, but for the animal side, what is in front of you is just a prey.
The following link is more like a dream interpretation. The delicate iron gate in the sewer is the last line of defense for Fu Yigui's rationality, maintaining the distance between him and Little Red Riding Hood. If I stood outside the door and watched Little Red Riding Hood disappear, I think it would be another ending. However, in his dream, he controlled the dream with the most original desire in his heart. Yes, he wanted to kill the prey, so the door opened slowly.
The wolves filed out, people running behind, one biting, the other begging for mercy. But Fu Yigui's fragile human side can't do anything, he can't stop that cruel self. The last figure in the distance is probably the humanity that has been abandoned in Fu's heart. (High energy in the front picture)
3 ·.
Why does my sister throw her arms around like this? Why is a war machine so easily moved? Why do students from the Security Department, who are the same as the hostile forces, risk frequent contact with Fu Yigui and lend a helping hand? All the unreasonable and blunt things are because this is a well-designed trap - Fu Yigui, a member of the special aircraft team who was dismissed during the mission, was used as a breakthrough to pull him into the water and create a complicity between the police department and the terrorists. The pressure of public opinion brought down the special fleet.
The beasts in this group of political struggles are also fighting mercilessly for survival and the continuation of bloodlines.
A counterintelligence organization called "Wolf" is mentioned three times in the film, which is also a dark line in the film. The first time was a secret meeting of several heads after Fu failed to perform the mission; the second time was the conspiracy of the Ministry of Public Security in the picture above, the intuition of the head of the Ministry of Public Security before parting with a politician; and the third time was to arrest Fu Yi After the failure of your operation, when Bian Jiantun took emergency measures, the head of the Ministry of Public Security finally woke up and finally connected the protagonist and the wolf. In the end, after the "Human Wolf" organization surfaced, Fu Yigui's other identity, the core member of the "Human Wolf" organization, was confirmed.
The story has always been overlooking the entire trap from the perspective of the makers, but they ignored the noose that was placed around their necks from behind when they got off the trap. "You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and the person watching the scenery looks at you upstairs." Obviously, the person hiding upstairs and watching the scenery is the "human wolf".
After the organization found out the true identity of the "Little Red Riding Hood" sister, they chose to let Fu Yigui decide what to do. After breaking the situation, they would use "Little Red Riding Hood" to counteract the Ministry of Public Security in order to protect the special fleet.
At this time, "Little Red Riding Hood", who had already been deeply involved in the emotional whirlpool, could not accept this fact. In the end, is Fu Yigui's warmth to himself a show of true affection, or is it a work need? It was difficult for her to find the answer from him for a while. After all, the kiss at the rooftop amusement park that night was real, but the human weapon standing in front of him was also real.
4. Who is Little Red Riding Hood?
Let's finish the story of a complete Little Red Riding Hood first:
Once upon a time there was a little girl
She hasn't seen her mother in seven years
She was forced to put on an iron coat and was told
When you wear these clothes, you can go back to mom
The girl put her clothes on the wall desperately, grinding and grinding
desperately trying to break them
when they are finally worn out
she got some milk and bread
And a little cheese and butter
to her mother's house
In the forest, she met a wolf
ask what she brought
"Milk and Bread
and some cheese and butter," she replied
wolf wants to eat
girl say no
It was a present for her mother
The wolf asked her if she wanted to take the road or the road
when the girl says she's going to take the trail
The wolf hurried away and hit the trail
And ate the little girl's mother
The girl finally came to her mother's house
"Mom, open the door," she said
"Push it, the door is unlocked," replied the wolf
(two)
"Push it, the door is unlocked," replied the wolf
But the door still doesn't open
So the girl crawled into the house from the hole
"I'm so hungry, Mom," she said
"Eat some meat from the closet," said the wolf
This is the meat of her mother killed by wolves
A big cat jumped on the cupboard and said:
"You're eating your mother's meat!"
"Mom, there's a cat on the cupboard
It says I'm eating your meat. "
"Of course it's a lie
Throw that cat with wooden shoes"
Little girl is thirsty after eating meat
"Mom, I'm so thirsty," she said
"Drink some wine from a jar," says Wolf
While she was drinking, a bird flew by
perched on the chimney
"You're drinking your mother's blood," it says
"Mother, there's a bird on the chimney
It said I was drinking your blood"
"Throw the bird with the cape"
After eating meat and drinking blood
The little girl said to her mother:
"Mom, I'm feeling sleepy"
"Come here and rest for a while"
(three)
The girl takes off her clothes and goes to the bed
there lies her mother
Weird sleeping position, with a turban on his face
"Mom, your ears are so big," she said
"That's to hear you better, my dear"
"Mom, your eyes are so round"
"That's to see you better, darling"
"Mom, your nails are so long"
"That's to hold you better, darling"
"Mom, your teeth are so sharp"
(Four)
then the wolf
ate little red riding hood
After reading this complete story, in fact, the male and female protagonists are both Little Red Riding Hoods in the story. On the surface of the film, the male and female protagonists have always been matched with the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood, but this wolf is the monster that the special plane team or the "human wolf" organization wants to cultivate. But in fact, Fu Yigui is just the little Red Riding Hood who eats his mother's meat and drinks his mother's blood in the story.
Sadly, someone had revealed the truth to him, such as the big cat on the cupboard, and the bird on the chimney, but this thin truth was then covered up by another "truth" - how could it be wrong what my mother said? ?
Fu Yigui and Little Red Riding Hood are both dressed in iron clothes, Little Red Riding Hood relied on the accumulated dawdling, while Fu Yigui relied on the weak gleam of humanity in his heart. The fate of the two of them represents a choice. Are you willing to be the little Red Riding Hood who has worn the iron clothes but is sent to the wolf's mouth, or is the wolf among the people who are forever imprisoned by the iron clothes and always stand at the top of the food chain.
In this story, Little Red Riding Hood eats meat and drinks blood. In fact, the mother represents the people who are being fished and meat, and the real big bad wolf is despotism. When the weapons of war represented by Fu Yigui receive the so-called instructions and are packaged and washed in a seemingly noble form, this is holy war, just like Little Red Riding Hood drives away big cats and birds. However, Little Red Riding Hood who threw away his wooden shoes and cloak is no longer Little Red Riding Hood, just as an army whose muzzle is aimed at the people becomes the executioner's butcher's knife.
What is even more frustrating is the delicate relationship between Fu Yigui and the special aircraft team and the "Human Wolf" organization. He is not completely imprisoned like Little Red Riding Hood, but has a sense of belonging as mentioned above. This is the instinct of the beast, and it is also the most chilling point of the whole film - how cold-blooded people can be, so cold-blooded can no longer be considered human.
Fu Yigui's seemingly confused remnants of humanity were eventually obliterated by himself.
Little Red Riding Hood tasted human flesh and turned herself into a real wolf. Therefore, at the end, after Fu Yigui shot and killed Little Red Riding Hood under the guidance of his teacher, he was the king on the snowy mountain. He had no weakness anymore. Maybe... he should use "it".
The truly terrifying wolf is the Human Wolf Organization. An internal campaign to eliminate counter-revolutionaries is to fight and overthrow them. The so-called "counter-revolutionary" is nothing more than a hat on the dissidents to be eliminated. Also, the organization has never trusted anyone, including Fu Yigui, of course.
The uncle who happened to pass by with the old woman in the crematorium was a member of the organization. From the beginning of the investigation until the end of the killing of Little Red Riding Hood, all are under the surveillance of the organization and the control of double insurance. And this "human wolf" bites the opponent and defends himself.
Knot · .The wolf in human skin
Mamoru Oshii has a persistent fascination with machinery (firearms, mechas). Even if the background of the story is not the future, but the reconstruction period after World War II, we can still feel the coldness and horror brought by the advancement of that era.
For the first time, the story of Little Red Riding Hood was shown from the most original cruelty, and for the first time, the big bad wolf was used as the main perspective to look at the meaning of killing.
The surprise is that Mamoru Oshii's presentation of dreams actually has the same skills and style as Jin Min's "The House of Weima". And the image of the male protagonist has the most perfect combat performance. Putting on armor, this is a terminator; putting on casual clothes, he is Jason Bourne. (If Byrne doesn't wake up, maybe his final form is Fu Yigui) ","
View more about Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade reviews
