There’s no doubt that “Chainsaw Man” was initially similar to “Edgerunners,” which was released some time ago, in that it seemed to be about a Boy meet girl.
However, the chainsaw Man’s unfolding is jumpy and unusual.
The heroine of the film, madge, マ キ マ (Makima), remove “キ”, namely the “mom” in Japanese, in the world is the embodiment of “domination” evil.
From the name of the heroine, the author has already hinted at her energy as a maternal space. Therefore, the heroine of the play Marchima is not like the general blood just like the male protagonist electric subservience, she has never loved electric times, she cares about just how to “dominate” electric times change after the form – “chainsaw man”, even to the end have forgotten the existence of this person.
As a woman, Marchima has the most overt sexual tension of female traits. Tightly pressed white shirts neatly tucked into high-waited trousers, raising the waist line and lengthening the leg-to-body ratio, accentuating a good figure; the polo coat with large lapels and single breasted buttons not only loses formality, but also softens the distance and coolness brought by the figure and makeup, bringing a touch of lazy affinity. She is also willing to use a series of sexually suggestive words and actions to gain her affection, and even control her.
Marchima was wearing a polo coat
Flirt with electricity
However, it is not enough to provide sexual attraction. What Marchima asks for is to fully support the human being and in the process make him feel the love and care that comes with being a “human”, in which she acts as the mother of the human being.
On the basis of Freud’s personality theory of “ego”, “id” and “superego”, Alcan developed his “Theory of three Realms” to scientifically explain the psychological structure of the subject. The three realms refer to the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real respectively. Among them, the symbolic realm is a kind of social order that governs the law of individual life activities, “realizing people’s sociality and culture, as well as standardizing people’s sexual and aggressive instincts”. However, the Oedipus complex occurs in this field. The individual has not become the subject at this time, but the infant first needs to experience the duality of the relationship with the mother and become an extension or attachment of the mother. Through the “other” of the mother, the infant needs to gradually understand the social identity, form personality and become the subject like looking in the mirror.
Returning to the text, our hero Dian Jib, who lost his parents when he was young, formed a protective mode of false self, even at the beginning of the story is essentially an individual being (so it is not hard to understand why Marchima promised him to become a “dog” with the most basic physiological desires such as food and sex); And the appearance of Marchima, bring electric times too much life for the first time, make up for the lack of mother role, and bring other “others” for it, such as representing the identity of the elder brother Autumn Hayakawa, the identity of the sister Paw and so on.
However, as the psychoanalyst Winnicott said, the mother is the initial ruler of each child, with “omnipotence”. But her feelings for the child are not only love, but also hate. If the mother fails to perceive the hate for the child, cannot timely withdraw, “bring the world to the child”, let the child’s attention to the outside world, then love will devour the child. What’s more, Marchima, as an inhuman being, did not feel a trace of normal emotion, and though she longed for intimacy, she did not know what it was, and all her displays of intimacy were but imitations of it; What you want is to completely dominate the chainsaw Man, or be dominated by the Chainsaw Man in the form of being eaten by the Chainsaw Man.
With this distorted set of values, it is natural for Marchima to choose to directly or indirectly kill all the people who are important to him, whether it is Akio Hayakawa, whom he considers family, Chua, or Lessee, the lover with whom he wants to elope and escape this chaotic world. From cultivating his emotion step by step to let him feel the warmth of life, to completely destroying everything he had, so that he could not return to his “daily life”, so that he realized that his so-called happiness should be completely dependent on “mother”, who has absolute power.
Of course, like countless comics, in the ending, the protagonist, also inspired by the love of people around him, completes the “completion” of personality, successfully realizes the construction of subjectivity, defeats (eats) the big BOSS Marchima, and saves the world.
Interestingly, in the three decades since Japan’s resignation to stagflation in the 1990s, many representative Japanese anime have been exploring the same issue: prominent cartoonists have realized that in highly capitalist Japan, “anything that looks like freedom or beauty is really just a screen covering deeper bondage and terror”; In the face of the rigid, bureaucratic and operational modern society, how to construct subjectivity for the contemporary people in the situation of great loss and emptiness. Their answers were surprisingly consistent: neither a violent fundamentalist revolution, nor a hippie-style choice to fight the establishment with wild abandon, but an aesthetic of love.
We are not here to deny the power of human emotion, no matter how cruel the world, love is still the greatest common divisor. No matter how severe the system and oppression can still not devoid of humanity and love. However, if the “transcendent” all hope in the named “I” corner, rather than to criticize the reality, how much a bit self-deceiving taste; What’s more, love, especially a wolfish group, can easily be turned into a commodity for consumption by capital. If oppression is fought in this way, then the issue of “fighting oppression” itself will become a cultural consumer product that provides some relief and anesthesia to the oppressed people, and the real resistance in its core is gradually losing.
