Play life: It is better to regret what you have done than to regret not doing it

Before the creation of the “world on the plate” in which all the victories and losses were decided by games, human beings lived as the weakest among the 16 races in the chaotic and dark world. To the Creator, these races are just flags in the game.

At the beginning of the film, a human village is reduced to ashes by a powerful explosion. A white-haired boy named Rick climbs out of the ruins, meets a robot girl, and hurriedly runs away by picking up a chess-board on the ground. In the next scene, Tutu and Zuni are engaged in a chess game, in which Tutu, as the only god, wins the game.

Rick is a member of the human race, one day he met in the forest as the machine Kai kind of female master Hugh, Hugh was abandoned because of their own fault; he has been seeking to understand the feelings of human beings. In order to get the answer, she decided to win or lose chess way, let Rick promised to stay around, in order to seek answers. Rick took Hugh back to the camp, but when they came back to the room, they had conflicts. As a mechanical Hugh did not know how to feel, and his words inadvertently prodded Rick’s pain，However, after letting Rick vent and giving him enough trust, the confused Rick was stimulated to cheer up. They want to change the status quo by making their own rules.

After that, he began to disguise himself as a ghost to send information to the major races, so that the major races took sides and had differences. As a result, the war led to the Star Cup, and the Star Cup was the winning condition. Whoever got it, the race he represented would get great power. In this way, humans can profit from the fish and get a chance to turn it around. In the course of the operation, the two gradually fell in love and married.

However is thought will usher in a Happy End, Rick due to the “black gray” dying, because of the arrangement of the generator and the single Hubei was found by the Jollier of the wings, vulnerable she will face the end of life. But at the time of his death, Hub was desperately pleading for synchronization as a broken machine. Because of his acquisition of human emotions, the Machine Kai also allowed an exception, and at the last moment before Hubei left this world, the Machine Kai had human feelings, and decided to ally with the humans. In the end, at the expense of the vast majority of the machine Kai at the price, reluctantly “get” the star Cup, and create the spirit species “To”, in this game reached a draw, human finally get equal treatment, the world peace.

Again, the scene cuts back to the two playing chess. It turned out that the boy telling the history was Tutu. Looking at the “empty” and “white” before him, he smiled and turned away. And Stefani chest engraved with the three names of the jewel pendant, is quietly confirmed everything, the curtain of the story has come down. Perhaps the audiences who have not come into contact with the original work before have only a partial understanding of the plot and cannot fully appreciate its complete charm. But the game world that thousands of sages fought through fire and water for thousands of years, its shock and emotion will surely remain in the hearts of all viewers forever.

After watching the film, I thought more about its backstory and metaphor than I was moved by tears. The first thing that struck me about this movie was that it was a two-dimension Star Wars: Rogue One: Everything was sacrificed for a Normal End that wasn’t a success. And its narrative structure is like “listening to the history of the elders”. The god Tutu who is in charge of the world tells the story of the sacrifice of everything for human hope and world peace six thousand years ago. To put it bluntly, for Japan’s new millennial in the 21st century, isn’t what Rick and Hub imply about their fathers’ generation, who fought desperately to save their country and their personal lives in their daily jobs after Japan’s economic collapse in the late 1980s?

At that point in history, everyone took on economic debts in a flash that would take decades to repay. After a long time, the society retains wealth but dare not invest in construction. Even sexual desire has changed from the hot love hotels and nightclubs in the 1980s to the erotic images of people addicted to the two-dimensional flat paper. Sex and women swear itself is a kind of love incompetence. Not having to deal with the downside of real women — now “humans” are just as weak. Yes, like this legacy, the ghost of despair still lingers in the younger generation.

The original author Tomato Enemata create this prequel intention, also probably wants to persuade more have “empty” and “white” so gifted young social elite, and even like Stefani mind not too smart “MOE two” people, realize that the predecessors had experienced suffering, paid efforts, regardless of gains and losses to join the construction of the new society, Join the history of people who have gone through fire and water before them, join the people who are trying to achieve their goals in life. Perhaps, with this belief, we can achieve the long-cherished wish of “the weakest” over “the strongest”. And the whole set of persuasion, in fact, to the youth of our country, also has cannot be ignored of enlightenment significance. The problems we have encountered, and will encounter, are similar to those of Japan, but perhaps even worse.

Even though animation is a late art form, it also relies on the superb skill of its painters to create the beauty of the tragic artistic conception, which is no less impressive than movies and dramas. It can often make people both moved and deeply inspired. Or the gentle music, or the expression of the story structure, can make the audience’s emotions along with the plot ups and downs resonance. Of course, the element of tragedy is not just to earn our tears, but to bring something deeply to our hearts that we might not normally think is important. Rick’s death and Hubei’s sacrifice in the animation are not only for their fate and the plot of the story to be covered with a layer of sadness, but also for us viewers to create conditions for thinking about life, so that we can realize the importance of “cherish” and “love”, learn to cherish what we have now, and love all the people who love ourselves. At the same time, he chooses to stand up and fight with wisdom to protect his precious things.