If you understood what made American Beauty such an incredible movie, you'll love Serial Experiments: Lain. So if you are looking for a thought-provoking way to spend about five and a half hours of your time, I cannot recommend this more. This is an intentional counterpoint to the more natural looking animation, often consisting more of still paintings than movement, and the effect is stunning. In keeping true to the Zen Buddhist traditions of Japan, the animation style is often minimalistic, offset by the frenetic chaos of the computer animation added to it. The answers can only be understood, never explained. It raises more questions than could possibly be answered given the limitations of language. The story is never judgemental, it simply gives you things to think about. The purpose is to make you think about your own place in life, and how you deal with it. Nor does it ever come straight out and explain itself or what is going on. Note that this is NOT an action-packed story, nor does it lessen itself by trying to cater to the lowest common denominator. This 13-part series, spanning 4 DVDs, is the best aspects of American Beauty, The Sixth Sense, 2001, and (to a lesser degree) The Matrix rolled into one subtle and beautiful story. The fact that such an email could easily be faked is irrelevant, but instead we focus on how Lain's perspective changes as she learns to deal with life. After receiving an email from a classmate who committed suicide a few days earlier, Lain begins to examine the world, society, god, self, technology, and how these concepts fit together. The story follows Lain, a shy, adolescent school girl. Doing so would be like comparing Schindler's List to The Kentucky Fried Movie. Don't let the word anime turn you off, folks. This series is to anime in general what films like American Beauty are to movies in general. They developed the ability to 'bio-emerge,' manifesting as physical beings by synthesizing artificial proteins much like the way Lain. In Tamers, Digimon were artificial life programs that evolved within the Digital World, a parallel reality within Cyberspace. Pii Pii Pii.Last night I finally received the last of 4 DVDs in this mind-blowing series. Serial Experiments Lain and Digimon Tamers were both written by Chiaki J. “ What the heck is this? Some kind of bad joke? ” “ I thought somebody was there, your imaginary friend or something like that. When she dies her soul is taken by the Knights. After a while she seems to care and show more interest and became obsessed, leading to her downfall of later on losing her sanity. With now and then delivering messages.Īt first, Mika seems to be judgmental and rude toward her younger sister, Lain. When she gets her mind trapped in the wired her physical self becomes a near empty hollow shell. At first, she doesn't seem to mind her family away from home and spends all day talking with them. She likes to have fun and hang out with her friends at Cyberia. Mika is shown to be an apathetic and somewhat rude to her younger sister and parents. Mika is occasionally seen wearing her school uniform and other various casual clothes, but never adorns herself with anything too out of the normal, leaving her appearance rather fitting and common. She is a sixteen year old student usually seen with her brown hair worn down outside the school and at home. When Lain reboots the reality, she is seen briefly during a lunch with her family reminding her first apparition in the series where she did the same thing: leaving the table without finishing her meal. After this, a few obscure events happened such as when she mysteriously got locked in a bathroom with light off and written many times on the door "fulfills the prophecy", which ended up ruining her mental health. This shock wasn't just because of how talented she was with them, but that she could do so much as even hack nearly anything related to computers, technology, and electricity. During the course of the show, she slowly notices that her little sister is obsessed with computers to a point where it frightens her.
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