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After watching this season, it occurred to me that our fight against nihilism is not just about Communism. There are literary works, too. Because of the transcendence of literary works they can transcend time, space and law, and they can imagine different possibilities.
Re: 0 also has this transcendence: not only in its unrestrained imagination, worldview setting, characterization and growth. Even the multiple if lines in the animation and the original novel well express the artistic extension brought by this transcendence.
It is mentioned several times in the play that the most important thing is not the beginning and the process, but the end. The season ends with him.
When young, smart lucky think fairy tale “happy ending” is not deep enough. Think that after the happy ending, the reality continues. Later, this beauty may have to take on another shape.
Now I feel ridiculous: the charm of fairy tales is that, in this story, when the final subtitles slowly fall, the happy ending, in this story world is frozen and eternal. What a romantic thing it is!
Nihilism negates existence and value, while literary works perpetuate value. People are animals of ideas; believe that forever, forever is there. Literary works have become a weapon against nothingness.
The most important thing is the ending, which is what the main character pursues after death and rebirth. The process is often more important than the result, is one of my teachers once told me.
The two are not at odds. In reality, we need to make progress in the process; life is not over until the last moment.
But in fairy tales and dramas, the writer or co-writer can choose to end at a good moment. This retention of “forever” is also the beauty of literary works.
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If you switch from the reader’s perspective to the writer’s perspective it can be seen that the author genuinely loves his characters. Even for supporting actors and opponents are matched with antecedents and consequences of behavior motivation. It was clumsy and sincere. This kind of overexertion and refinement fits my stereotype of Japanese writers.
The heroine is really the daughter of the author. It is necessary to design character growth and character arcs to avoid becoming thin and paper people, and not to bear the pain and injury of others.
In contrast, the hero is turned into a dog by the author. One of the most miserable men in the past years, honestly I deceive. It’s possible that a large number of authors are particularly critical of protagonists who have a self-reflection. Not only in the classic “Dream of Red Mansions” for Boa Dai. Even the Japanese light novel Re: 0 is no exception.
There’s a great review on Station b about the leading man. “To be honest, 486 is the only guy I’m not jealous of, and when he’s on EMT, I’m even relieved because he deserves it. He’s the only one I don’t envy because I don’t think I can handle what he’s been through.”
This is compared with a lot of cool play and flow, in order to meet the author’s yy or to facilitate readers into the printing cool feeling, to be much more serious, but also appears to be sincere.
This sincerity is even so extreme that the author seems not to consider that in a fantasy light novel, many people just want to kill time and read for fun, and such depiction of authenticity may affect readers’ reading experience.
Therefore, “Re: 0” this “Wang Selected” has suffered a decline in word-of-mouth. At the same time, the main character is a fool, character defects, and retreat. Just like the title “Pig Will,” the pig hero was once boring, resulting in poor experience of substitution.
A good-looking girl more different world magic through The Times, actually not cool is done. Not even for the sake of torture. So aside from the author is a novice artistic attainments, at least this competition and sincerity, deserves to be appreciated.
Also worthy of praise is the animation’s producer, Hakusshe. Zed, the author of Zhou, said, “Even if the budget is tight, even if I am not the biggest player in the industry, I just want to tell everyone that this story is super good. I can finish the whole season of battle scenes, I can destroy all the long-term faces, I can depict the grand scenes with simple lines, but I will never give up telling a good story.
How did this story move me, now I will how to convey to you? I know what the audience and I are expecting, so I’m going to scoop up their expectations and not throw them on the floor to collect dust.
I can’t believe it went from 9.8 to 9.9. Now, the reputation of 486 is getting better and better, and the original embarrassing performance has turned into a charm, which is a good thing.
Now we prefer to see how an ordinary person with limitations can achieve happiness or greatness through choice and courage.
We are more willing to recognize that an ordinary person who does not want to be beaten down by fate and insists on saving everyone is struggling through many difficulties — as long as the ending is happy.
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High school male master 486, no good character in two, by the Japanese through the artifact truck sent into the sinister different world, the only skill is the ability to return to death. Real life is no less unpleasant than the drama.
The need to “die several times” may not change reality. It also gives fantasy a foundation of empathy. Hemingway concluded that “man can be destroyed, but not defeated”.
The meaning of unbeatable is not victory, people countless times to the fate of the struggle, resistance. Often like Sisyphus countless times to push up the boulder, the boulder will always fall.
486 Time and time again experienced death, rebirth, but inevitably to tragedy. It seems to say that all struggles are futile, but fate cannot overcome. Man is not known to be defeated, but he is first crushed by the boulders of life.
And therein lays the tragedy of nihilism. Many people struggle through life, not because of excessive desire or stupidity, but simply because of a naive and pure.
Innocence and purity bring blind faith. The pursuit of life is the value given by the outside world. And when the tide of time has pushed the little people ashore, the history books will not mark an end to our cry.
So another reason I love this play is that the writer faces reality and gives hope. Although the male master experienced death again and again, but from a protectorate, into a knight who can protect others although she experienced a variety of twists and turns, but from ignorant, grew into a qualified candidate with social reform beliefs.
They were not old men battling sharks in the neither sea, nor Sisyphus in vain. The growth and hope created by the author, and the eternal beauty fixed by the author in the ending, are the powerful counterattack of literary works against nihilism with “transcendence”.
