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Temari · Mar 12, 2007, 06:53 PM

Though I've had the complete series for over a year now, I havent finished watching Serial Experiment Lain. That being said, what I have watched (about half of it) has really got my mind boggled. Thinking about computers, the internet and how they are basically taking over our lives (of course, I'm on the internet right now... dun dun dun).

Akira can obviously be said to highlight the pursuit of power and what it can do to you... destroying friendships as well as yourself.

And movies like Millenium Actress and Perfect Blue (alas, I havent been able to see this director's other movie, Peprika, yet) always make me wonder if that's exactly what its like to slowly be driven to the edge on insanity. Did that really just happen? How could it? Yet it occurs again. Stuff like that.

I like analyzing my anime.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Temari · Mar 12, 2007, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by Qwarky

To be honest, I haven't finished the last disc of Lain yet either, but I think it raises questions more about defining self and human consciousness than just internet addiction. I suppose there is the question of relevance of information and memory and how dependant people are on technology (much like the first Patlabor movie), but I always saw the series' ponderings as more spiritual than machine related.

Oh yeah, I feel stupid now.

One reason why I havent completed the series is because its been so long since I watched it the first half of it (at least a year). I remembered it being thought provoking, but mostly the computers stuck out in my mind.

Also, while I remember it, I have to throw out the mother of all 'WTF just happened?' animes... Neon Genesis Evangelion. I don't even know where to begin with that one... just that the series' ending was much more fitting then the movie's ending To me it was never entirely about Evas and Angels and Nerv all in their own war, it was about Shinji and his journey from whiny bitch to 'I'm accepted'. The psychological mind-sets of children that the series explores is... mind-boggling.

There's nowhere I can't reach.