In fact, in such an animation, Wen Xun's design is quite eye-catching. Such an animation is actually conceived based on his novel, although to a certain extent, the novel was published in advance, so the animation does not have so many gimmicks. But relatively speaking, animation and novels are completely different things. After all, one relies on text description to let readers make up their minds, and the other directly shows the picture! As for the plot, such a cartoon is scheduled to last for about 60 episodes. It can be said that each episode is very exciting, and they all incorporate Wen Xun¡¯s whimsical ideas and exquisite designs!
What kind of ingenious design? That's the "equivalent exchange" that Wen Xun designs at the beginning of every episode! On the surface, it seems that such an animated world is very fair, as if everything is exchanged with equal value, and what you pay and what you receive are completely equal, but in fact this is not the case! Like the so-called Gate of Truth - anyone who has seen such a gate can gain the ability to make alchemy directly without drawing an alchemy array in such an alchemical world. At first, everyone thought that the other side of the door was full of all kinds of alchemical truths, but in fact, at the end of the plot, it was suddenly revealed that what was on the other side of the door was not truth, but a bare reality - what? Equivalent exchanges are all fake! When performing the alchemy of equivalent exchange on this side of the door, the other side of the door is a real world of time and space like ours, and in the alchemical world on this side of the door, the alchemical work to be done is not just the so-called provision of various goods. Just growing raw materials is enough!
"It's like a radio is broken. Can the radio be repaired by making some sand or something?" How does it work here? This requires something to contribute energy inside! And what is such an energy? That is the "soul" of a person in the real world on the other side of the door! So here is some equivalent exchange for refining. Actually at the expense of real-world dead people! Is this an equivalent exchange of balls? Fix a radio here. Is someone going to die in the real world? Two alchemists here fight for a while. How many people will die in the real world? Why? How is it fair? Therefore, in such a design, Wen Xun wanted to express a concept that there has never been such a thing as fairness in the world!
It can be said that Wen Xun's life was engraved with blood. The pain was not the wound, but the helplessness! Many tragedies happen, not because of their original choices, but because of the environment; Ed has been looking for the "Philosopher's Stone" to restore Al's body, and artificial people are looking for the "Philosopher's Stone" in order to become human. , Scar Man is looking for the "Philosopher's Stone" for his country. The biological father and mother are looking for the Philosopher's Stone in order to live forever. No one can say whose starting point is right or noble, but the way each person chooses to achieve it is different. When Rust was asked by Ed as a good guy, "Isn't immortality what everyone pursues? Why are we still pursuing the Philosopher's Stone?" Rust answered, answering something we haven't noticed after watching it for a long time. "This is the same as you struggling to find a body for your brother." What an obvious answer, but often Amity won't find it, and we won't find it. People always think that they are engaged in a more valuable career or leading a more meaningful life than others. But they often ignore that others are the same, and their dreams are just as big. Why do you think one is bigger and the other is smaller in Ed's eyes? It comes from "selfishness", which cannot be seen because of selfishness, and magnifies oneself because of ego. This is true in animation, and so is life.
The principle of equal exchange has always been the foundation of steelmaking. The explanation of this sentence was revealed in the end. Pay and gain are not necessarily equivalent. At the end of life, the principle of equality is finally negated. Ed's father said: If a tape recorder breaks down, you can use alchemy to make a new tape recorder using the same material. While exchanging outside the door, it is also the departure of a character in the world inside the door. Therefore, exchanges outside the door are actually based on the principle of inequality. No one knows how the equation holds between giving and gaining. They can only get the truth that "paying does not necessarily mean gaining, and if you do not pay, there will definitely be no gain." The world of charity is the world outside the door, built on the principle of equal exchange. Why is there no happiness in such a world based on the principle of equal exchange? This world should be what we pursue, a fair world, but it is filled with such bloody cruelty; the world behind the door does not have the principle of equal exchange, and there are constant wars. This is the case both inside and outside the door, which shows that the principle of equal exchange is not wrong; in the world outside the door, when faced with lost things, they want to exchange them, and if they can't exchange them, they want to use the Philosopher's Stone. So, civil strife broke out; The world here is our world, and everyone in this world understands it, without talking nonsense. Inside and outside the door, there are two worlds, one situation; different pursuits, the same desires; different people, the same humanity.
Like in the novel, Wen Xun also designed seven artificial people - the artificial people were Ed's father who separated the seven negative emotions in himself and reconstructed them into seven artificial people. These seven people happen to be responsible for religious mattersEach of the seven deadly sins has a personality consistent with the characteristics of his or her original sin. There are seven such people in the novel, and they are all interpreted according to such a personality. It can be said that they are done quite well. The Rast (Rust, **, strong **) artificial human is very cruel and bloodless, but his original dream is to become a "human", a "dead person" (last words). Because the person you love dies, and you are an immortal, you cannot accompany him in death. It can be said that you died indirectly from sexual intercourse. So what about immortality? If there is no glory of life, what is the meaning of the length of life?
? Grattony (gluttony, gluttony). Food, sex, and sex. Appetite and desire are human nature, so in Steelmaking, Rast and Gratoni are inseparable. The most common thing they say is "Can I eat this, Rast?" In the end, when Gratoni learned that Rust was dead, he lost his appetite. It doesn¡¯t matter what you eat, what matters is who is by your side to eat with you. In the end, he died together with the Holy Mother because of his appetite.
Greed (greed, greed). "I want everything in this world." Greed pursues everything in this world, material and immaterial. In the end, in order to gain the freedom of his soul, he chose "suicide". But the greed of people in this world is not as good as his, but more of giving up their souls for material things. If greed were so thorough, would the world be cleaner?
Sloth (sloth, lazy). Nietzsche was once asked what he thought after visiting so many countries. Nietzsche's answer is that all people are inherently lazy, which shows that one of human nature is laziness. Sloth is the body of their mother that Ed and Al obtained from outside the door after sacrificing Al's body and Ed's hand. Because Sloth couldn't bear her sons' love for her, she would rather forget her memory. Once you forget, you don¡¯t have to bear it. Is it also a sign of laziness?
There is also Lars (wrath, anger), the only android who can grow old, Envy (jealousy), Prad (pride, pride), especially such a Prad, who is Wen Xun designed an artificial man made of the lost things of the protagonist brothers - the body of the younger brother and one hand and one foot of the older brother! So such an artificial person is the only artificial person who can do alchemy!
Thinking of the Neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Xi¡¯s saying of ¡°preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires¡±, if this can really be achieved, what is the principle of nature? What if the laws of heaven are wrong, or like the principle of equal exchange, are generally only half right? I also think of Wang Shouren¡¯s experience in investigating things, and eventually became a representative of the Heart School, which believes that the heart is the root of all things. So how can human desires be abandoned? How will the laws of heaven be put aside? In fact, Wen Xun designed such a novel to take place in a "fair and just" world that everyone can ideally exist in. He wanted to show everyone the human nature in such a world. He just wants to show that no matter what kind of world people live in, they will never be happy and honest! Even in a fair and just world, there will be various problems! The world can't be perfect! Even in a perfect world, there are imperfections! Life is such helplessness and dissatisfaction, and this is what he wants to show!
"Such a thought is of course probably not flattering, but at least now it seems that the Japanese are pretty good at it. In a way, this really proves the power of what Wen Xun saw in his dream! From this perspective, could his dream also be a certain kind of door? Could it be that there is another world on the other side of the dreamor in the dream? He couldn't understand these things, and he couldn't think clearly. But it doesn't matter, he can add these thoughts to his novel, and he can add his thoughts to what he sees. Under such a situation, how could such a novel, such a comic, and such an animation not be profound and powerful?
And judging from the current point in time, Wen Xun¡¯s novels and animations are actually quite well timed, just when social aesthetics are about to transform. And against the backdrop of so many passionate comics before, a novel like Wen Xun's is so profound and awesome that it simply doesn't look like something that children can understand, but he has packaged these things in There is a plot that children will like, so it is completely reasonable and deserved that such a novel and animation of his have won a particularly strong reputation and praise! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!