Due to the epidemic, I have not dared to watch this theater version. Today, I secretly watched it while it was about to be removed. The results were overjoyed! This is really good, not only feelings sell so simple, smooth plot, battle is not sloppy scene gorgeous, vivid characterization is not flat, more important is for the eternal theme of digital baby: I will discuss the details of the play in the following sections. I hope that people who have seen the play will have a new feeling (including revealing the plot seriously).
1 Aurora and Dawn
The boss of this game: エ オ ス モ ン (EOSMON) comes from the ancient Greek mythology, the goddess of the dawn Mr. Osborne (Eos), the goddess of the dawn corresponding is relative to the ancient Roman mythology goddess Aurora (Aurora), that is, the meaning of the Aurora, have seen the show should remember, female, professor also is to see the Aurora, the computer was Mr. Osborne beast digital eggs hatched, The connection is self-evident
Here is a wiki of the story of Adios:
Adios fell in love with a beautiful young man named Tithonus (τθω νός), but τός was troubled that he was mortal while she was immortal as a goddess. She begged Zeus to let Tetanus die forever too, and Zeus finally promised her that Tetanus would not die in the future. In her overjoyed rush to be reunited with her loved one, Adios forgot to ask Zeus to make Tetanus not only immortal, but immortal. Then she could only watch her love of the strong young man slowly and steadily old, but after ten thousand years he lost all his strength and knowledge, gradually shrinking into a cricket, and Adios had no choice but to shut him in a cicada cage with tears in his eyes. Tetanus had lost the ability to speak long ago, and could only accompany her with the cicada chirping and chirping.
It is obvious that the theatrical version has a large scale metaphorical allusion to this myth. In the theatrical version, the female professor, suffering from the loss of her Digimon and not being able to grow up with her Digimon, sets out to find a way to “live forever” : to trap the minds of the chosen children in the digital world
But like the mythical Tetanus, children trapped in the digital world have lost the ability to speak like puppets, so what’s the point of such companionship? Escapism becomes self-deception
2. Butterfly Effect and infinite Possibilities
The most ironic thing about Adios is another: Butterfly 🦋, the audience can notice that every time the Aesop appears on the scene, there will be blue butterflies. The Aesop itself is also the posture of a giant butterfly. When we mention the flying butterfly, the first reaction is the butterfly effect, which represents the great changes brought by small choices. But what the professor and the beast do is to shut down the possibility of children’s future. This is nothing but a great irony. On the other hand, when it comes to choice, we have to mention the eternal theme of Digimon, which is also the most discussed theme of this theatrical version: choice and growth
3. Eternal theme: Choice and growth
A. The death of the Digimon
The greatest crisis encountered by the protagonists of this novel is not the strength of the enemy, nor the coma of the companion, but a painful reality: The Digimon will eventually leave, led by A and Taiichi, the first two protagonists at the same time face a countdown to the disappearance of the Digimon that has been with them for a long time, which is a huge blow to the two of them, and why the Digimon of the two of them left in the first place involves a core question: human possibility
To add to the explanation given in the play we know for a fact: Why are only children chosen? The reason is that children have infinite possibilities, their future is unknown, and as a person grows up, they will choose less and less road, the trajectory of life will be gradually determined, in other words, the possibility of having is reduced. In the play, from Ah and he decided to take the postgraduate entrance examination, to Tai decided to take the job, their future is “fixed”, because they have made a choice for their future. This also explains why the female professor lost her Digimon at the age of 14, because the genius decided her life path before she got into her dream university and “lost her possibilities”
This is very much like Daemon, Daemon will accompany the bear in his childhood, when he grows up is when Daemon left…. So it’s possible to meet the other protagonists as they face the big choices in their lives, which means they’re close to saying goodbye to their Digimon… (Mulberry Heart)
B) To choose does not mean to give up possibility
Some people look at this and think: Huh? Isn’t that the reverse of the last one? This is because the above propositions about choice and possibility are pseudo-propositions thrown up by the disappearance of Digimon on the surface of the story, but what the story really wants to discuss is the next proposition: growth and choice do not mean loss
Let’s start with the story of the female professor. Why did the female professor choose to build her ideal “utopia”? When she was 14 years old, she experienced that her most important partner left because of the choice she made. She felt the pain brought by her growth and choice, but she could not get over it, instead, she threw herself into the research of reviving her Digimon
Let’s look at what the professor’s childhood friend was called: MorphoMon, morpho is the root of the word morpho and it’s also the English word for Morpho, but at the same time there’s another word that sounds just like this: I think we all know the meaning of Murphy’s Law, but what I’m here to say is that Murphy’s Law is a kind of fatalism, and what happens, and it’s just like life, you don’t always stay a child, you always grow up, like the professor and Tai-a-war in the theater version, they always lose their Digimon, This is inevitable
Faced with the tragic fate of being recruited, the female professor’s choice was to refuse: Refusing to grow up, refusing to choose to “imprison” our children in a digital utopia where they never grow up, we can’t be sure what kind of lives the children “live” in, but we can be sure that to the real world, their fate is no different from death. Even to Aiwa and Taiichi they appear to be nothing more than a group of unconscious figures
On the other hand, what the protagonist chooses is to have the courage to choose and bear, even if the choice will bring pain, but will not stop the pace of growth
4. The whistler of the Medal of Courage: Taiichi Yakama
Too a whistle this paragraph can be said to be the punch line of the whole article, I was watching the shiver upright! I have to say that the scene is very ritual Not only is the whistle reminiscent of the past, but the person who blows the whistle has to be Taiichi (who is so lovely in this theatrical version, I have to say). Because the question I want to discuss most in this article is whether you are willing to move on now that you know that growing up and making choices will bring grief
And Taiichi gave his answer: not willing, but dare not!
This is the ultimate answer given by the theatrical version. As we continue to choose and grow, we will inevitably lose our elders in the past, our carefree childhood, or our classmates who are drifting apart. Every choice we make is constantly reducing our future path. We no longer have unlimited possibilities, but all kinds of real pressure like a mountain; the road ahead gradually seems confused gray…..
If only I didn’t grow up…
It would have been better not to make any choice…..
This is the ultimate choice that many people, especially college students who are about to enter the society, always faced: where is my life going…. What do we need to face the confusion of the future?
It’s courage!
You just need the courage to take that step!
