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I’m sorry. I regret it too much.
The movie “Theatrical Version” Devil’s Blade “Infinite Train Edition” premiered on October 16, 2020. On my way home after seeing myself alone, I walked desperately trying to avoid crying like a baby. It was very nice that my face was hidden by the mask.
* This article touches the end of the story, so it is recommended that you read it after watching the movie.
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■ Synopsis of “Devil’s Blade”
The setting is Japan in the Taisho era. The main character, Kojiro Kamon, is killed by a demon in his precious family, and his only surviving sister, Sadako, also becomes a demon. Sumijiro joins the “Demon Slaying Corps”, an organization that defeats demons, to return his sister to humans. Overcome a series of deadly battles with friends.
The brightest in this movie is Anjuro Rengoku, one of the highest ranked swordsmen in the class-based demon slaying corps. Strong, soft and warm. Speaking of squad stuff, “red” doesn’t push or shove. He managed to defeat the evil demon that hijacked the 200 passenger train by guiding Sumijiro and others with a precise command.
However, the final edit. The demon side executive who suddenly appears, Akaza, kills the prison. An almost invincible demon who does not know if he can win even if the “pillars” face each other with three people. Rengoku faces alone and protects Coal Jiro who was seriously injured in the previous battle.
I am a fan of the original. He loved prison. So I don’t know how many times I reread this scene. However, while watching the battle in the movie, I instinctively believed that I could win. Naturally, the ending did not change and the prison died. It’s the same even if you see it over and over again. Believing I could win, I prayed that I could fight through tears, but the prison was dead. The hateful constellation escaped.
“Exterminate demons with friends. It’s the royal road of children’s cartoons. It’s easy to understand, that’s why it sells.” When talking about this successful job that has become a social phenomenon, some people know it or say it with their faces.
So why does “Red” die first?
The original has a long way to go. I have not reached the middle of the story. This is my first time working with Sumijiro and others.
But I thought about it and I thought about it again. Is not that. In this battle, the prison had to lose. why. It must have been given an important role to clearly show that “demon logic” and “human logic” are different.
There is a demon in me that was obsessed with “winning” and cried. It may seem a bit brusque, but living in this capitalist society inevitably does.
Let’s ask again. Why did the prison die? It is to show us “how to remain human beings” in this society in which we are forced to “become a devil.”
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First, let’s keep the premise of the world of “Devil’s Blade”. The important thing is that enemy demons were once human.
For example, a young man who has lost sight of him because he has been ridiculed by others for his lack of talent. A child who was alone because he was born so sick that he could not even walk. Many have become demons after despairing in a world that is oppressed and cannot even live as a person.
In the original story, it’s clear that the movie’s constellation also had a sad past.
However, in this story, the demon is completely positioned as a “thing to be destroyed”. Because demons eat humans. “I had such a bad time.” “The world is such a terrible place.” Due to so much desperation and nihilism, he ruined people who are trying to live properly.
There is a demon. Together with us, within this society. There is a part that hesitates to say that “a person is nothing” to an object in the shape of a person, but if you call a “monster that attacks or destroys a person because of your sadness”, a demon, that is the case. I think there are many people who come to mind existence.
In my personal experience, in the media industry where I used to be, I often see middle-aged employees who seem to be breaking the hearts of many subordinates, which is difficult to understand. did. Some were shaped like a man and some were shaped like a woman.
When given the opportunity to speak at drinking parties, they routinely described themselves as “reminders of their hard work” that they had endured long hours of work and harassment. I feel like I was taught early in my life, “What you don’t like about yourself shouldn’t be done by others”, but for some reason “they’ve put up with what they don’t like”. Everyone else should hang on. “Justify your abusive behavior by making a fool of yourself and saying,” Complain after you get the results. “
In the movie, there is a scene where Inouza tells the prison that he protects Kanjiro, who is seriously injured and cannot move, saying, “I hate weak people. Laughter reminds me of those middle-aged employees who they laughed with a squeaky feeling.
Some of them were “strong” like the constellation, they were producing “results” at work.However, living human beings can only be seen as beings to produce “results”, and thereforeWhen I don’t think about it, even if I hurt people, and I don’t know what to use the strength I gained for anything other than feeling good, I wonder if everyone is very weak. I think.
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When he sees the power of the prison, he asks, “Why don’t you turn into a demon?” This is because “getting stronger” itself is the purpose of the constellation. He urges us not to be in the “Supreme Realm” if we use the human body, which is vulnerable and will soon die. In other words, he invites us to “get rid of people and play a riding game together.”
On the other hand, it is a prison to say, “I will not be a demon for any reason.” Even if I am forced to die if I do not turn into a demon, I refuse without hesitation for a moment. The origin of this belief are the words of a sick mother who has a short life expectancy in her childhood.
“Do you know why you were born stronger than the others?”
“To help the weak. Those born more talented than others must use their power for the good of the world.”
What I think is doing this work well is that it is the mother, not the father, who gives this word.
The strong must protect the weak. If the father of the ancient “pillar” said this, it probably would have taken the meaning of “being stronger than the devil”. However, in this job, the father is willing to live a retired, self-critical life by drinking alcohol, perhaps because he was disappointed with “I was no big deal” even after training.
On the other hand, my mother is represented as a living, strong and kind person without wielding a sword. She tells the prison “Be strong”, but at the same time warns that the “demonic force”, which only aims at self-preservation, is meaningless.
The prison that inherited him never denies his weakness. If there is a person who has stumbled, he will not give up the possibility of a human being who can reach him.
Why does this figure strike the hearts of so many people? The moment Rengoku tries to fulfill his justice, we cry with Sumijiro, calling him by his name “Rengoku-san, Rengoku-san”. Perhaps it is because we live in days when we are always invited to become demons.
This capitalist society is the mechanism that leads humans to endless competition. If you don’t want to get hurt or lost, adapt to change, be more productive, and push boundaries. I don’t care about others, so focus on improving your specs. It is as if they said to him “become a demon”.
Successful people who have adapted to the mechanism will also send the knowledge that “this way you can win.” Scared into the silly montage game of “Who’s the winner?”, We are likely to forget “the value of living well as a person.”
Freeing yourself from this empty game is not an easy task. If you compare “being good” with “obtaining a demonic force”, the latter will be attracted to the latter in the short term.
I saw it in myself, that I wanted to win prison at all costs. When I realized it, I thought, “I have to crush the constellation here and prove Mr. Rengoku’s accuracy.”
At the bottom of this feeling is the “demon logic” that “if you can’t get results, you will end up with beautiful things like” being good. ” When I realized it, my spine went cold.
The reason the prison had to die is to fundamentally deny the “demon logic” that we have already internalized.
“Burning your heart no matter how much your weaknesses and clumsiness overwhelm you.”
Rengoku says it at the end. Sumijiro and his friends engrave the words in their hearts and overcome many shrines without falling into demons.
“Mr. Rengoku is not defeated!” – Sumijiro’s voice crying in the last scene would have been heard only in the fleeing Inouza’s ears. However, the “power of goodness” embodied in the prison does not disappear even if it collapses. Being inherited by other “pillars” and Sumijiro, it will become a greater force over time.
With his death, Rengoku showed the possibility that the “goodness” that a person had pierced would expand, connect, and change the world. He conveyed the most needed message of hope to the world today. Unless we fall into the existence of a desire for “demonic force”, the prison will not lose even if it dies.
(Interview / text: Aiko Kato@ aikowork521Edited by: Yuriko Izumitani@IzutaniYuriko）
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