A few days ago, a new animated series completely exploded!
soared to 9.9 points as soon as it was released. Up to now, more than 30,000 people have rated it and it remains at 9.8 points. The title made by god
is definitely well-deserved. Why can
be a god? What's so good about it?
Attacks on Giants The Final Season
into the giants The Final Season
Author Isayama created a world of shocking giants through strange and wonderful fantasy.
But this world is not a sci-fi with a suspended structure, but a profound metaphor of for human history and politics.
Recalling "Attack on Giants", the Eldia metaphors are not Japanese, but Jews. The armband worn by the Eldia is very similar to the Jewish armband of the Nazi period.
For a long time, the Eldia were regarded as demons and were expelled, exiled, and enslaved.
In "Giant", the last "Peach Blossom Spring" of the Eldia is the "Promised Land" in Jewish mythology.
author Jianshan created an epic history of Eldia on the basis of Jewish history.
However, Allen’s meaning is not just a Zionist, nor a nationalist. Allen eventually developed into a revolutionary. His ideal is to smash the old world and realize it in the new world that truly belongs to Aldi Demi-human freedom.
In this purpose, bloodshed, deterrence, and revolutionary management are all his methods.
Regardless of whether Allen’s methods are correct and the ideal can be realized, so far, the high meaning of "Attack on Titan" is unforgettable.
"Attack on Giant" is good-looking, because it is a rare work that has reached the height of literature and the history of political thought through comics.
The comics world is a mirror image of human history, and the conflict between different roles reflects the fundamental contradiction of several major ideas of mankind for thousands of years.
arrived at the final season of "Giant", with Alan Yeager's "No Regrets Choice", the decisive battle between the World Coalition and the Eldia, the ultimate question of "Giant" also surfaced.
In the face of a world order in which structural violence and the weak are constantly marginalized, stigmatized, and even died, as the oppressed country side, in the end choose to end this order, even if it pays devastating violence, or chooses to accept oppression, Allow order to continue to function. The original author of
, Isayama, leads readers to think with an extreme situation:
When the world coalition forces regard the Eldias as demons, they want to eliminate the Eldias.
As a member of this nation, did Alan Yeager choose to launch the earth cry, destroy the world, and fight for the freedom of Eldia?
Or accept the proposal of his brother Jick and exchange the Eldia’s euthanasia for world peace?
Many people regard Allen as a nationalist, or as a Nazi because of his choice to destroy the world.
This is actually a kind of confusion. The birth of the Nazis was a product of extreme national repression (and eager fanaticism) , the replacement of sacredness by the nation-state, and the decision of all secular things (and the national decision itself has no control) .
If the original Allen was a naive liberal, then Allen in the later period is undoubtedly a radical socialist, a person who aspires to end the history of enslavement.
outRegardless, if he chooses the way, he is destined to break with his old friends, but he has no choice but to fight.
Therefore, Allen's advice to his former friends is also to fight and make his own regretless choices.
Contrasting with Allen, Jike is actually a conservative , a person who rejects utopia, intervenes in the world through practical experience, and makes decisions that are most conducive to the current order. Z1z
Jike has no utopian fantasy of Allen, no obsession with freedom, and no idea of nationality above all else.
He is an activist with a conservative background. In order to keep the existing order intact, he doesn't even mind sacrificing a nation that, in his opinion, bears the original sin.
As for Han Ji, Almin, and even Leiner on the other side of the sea, they are liberals of varying degrees or nationalists with a humane spirit.
The fundamental difference between them and Allen is that the former stops at improvement, while the latter wants revolution.
And this is exactly the dividing line between liberals and socialists in the long history.
Between freedom and equality, liberals prefer freedom.
While socialists love freedom, they emphasize that freedom should be based on resistance to slavery, so socialists cannot tolerate slavery even if it appears in a more respectable way.
Socialists seek a better future. And liberals guard against a worse outcome. The final choice of
"Giant" actually reflects this fundamental difference in values.
The conflict between free will and rational order is a permanent problem for mankind. One of the themes of
comic "Attack on Giant" is the discussion of free will. Allen, the protagonist of
, is eager to go outside the wall and take a look at the sea. Z1z
Head of Irvine, gave up his life and rushed to practice his dream.
and Lewell , Mikasa, Almin and other investigators of the Corps, they all interpret the human yearning for free will.
But the tallest wall that lies in front of them is neither the lies of the rulers nor the terror of the giants, but the powerful rational order.
In "Attack on Titan", the most rational choice for a person inside the wall is to give up his yearning for freedom and live his life safely in lies, so that he can avoid the fear of premature death.
The reason why the kingdom established by the Wang family has to erect high walls to cleanse the memories of its subjects is also based on rational judgment-this rationality serves rule and order.
"Attack on Giants" is a comic book with literary value. The author Jianshan created the giants, but expresses the conflict of values in modern society.
often has two types of fantasy works: one type is to provide situations that do not exist in reality, and to explore possible changes in ethical concepts in the human world in the future.
Another category is to write today in the future, a metaphor for the real world. "Attack on Titan" belongs to the latter.
"Attack on Titan" enthusiastically praises the Eldia people (an oppressed race in the comics) 's yearning for freedom, but it also puts forward many contradictory situations to reveal what humans have to face in the pursuit of freedom The cruelty.
The final assault of the head of Elvin, the resistance of the mainland restorationists, and the Eldia's counterattack against the great power of Malay after knowing the truth, were smeared with tragic epic by Isayama.
is like a bound Prometheus, that is the original passion of life instinct-the meaning of lifeSearch. The cruel thing about
is that the search for meaning is accompanied by disillusionment.
What is difficult in this world is not the passionate assault led by black and white values, but whether a person still has the courage to dedicate himself after seeing the absurdity of self and the world, and even the ideals once realized.
To show this cruelty, "Attack on Titan" is full of irony and absurdity.
to be continued, the second part has been updated!
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