| SPOILER ALERT! Maybe it's just me, but there was never a moment of confusion for me in this movie, nor Steins;Gate. It made sense from beginning to end on a macro level, meaning there might have been moments where I had considered something a plot hole, but I could follow from one scene to the next without getting lost. These are not "dementia" anime that are meant to confuse you with pseudo-philosophical musings -- for that, try Paranoia Agent or Serial Experiments Lain. With that said, let me try to explain some things. There appears to be numerous other theories, but I won't try to tell you what I don't know. What we don't know is who or what the crow represents, or how much of the depicted world is "real". The ending showed Katagaki plugged into a futuristic machine, with Ichigyou in a lab coat. For all we know, that machine could be an SAO Fluct-light type of thing, where Katagaki is left to find himself in his memories, or that the real Ichigyou is inside the simulation either as the crow or something else -- we can't know this for sure. What we do know for sure is that everything in the entirety of the movie besides the final scene is within the simulation, where the ALLTALE system is a simulation within the simulation, from the perspective of the outer simulation. However, we know that ALLTALE is not just that, since it should have been impossible for programs executed within a computer to influence the outside world. That is, from the perspective of the "real world" (the ending), ALLTALE had to be a first-class citizen of even the outer simulation, that it's an integral part of the world where adult Katagaki is from. Another hint is that the God-Hand functioned even in adult Katagaki's world, even though it is supposed to reproduce memory references from ALLTALE. This would seem to indicate that ALLTALE is not just a quantum storage device within the outer simulation, or that the inner simulation is not a simulation within the outer simulation, that it is part of the outer simulation itself. In other words, the narration is unreliable, and whatever the "real" Katagaki was dreaming up in the space station might have been part real, but much of it could not be trusted. And from that perspective, whether the crow is Ichigyou no longer matters. We could consider everything that happened as some kind of Freudian adventure for the "real" Katagaki, where he is re-exploring the things that are important to his "real" self. As it mentioned in the ending, he is the one being synced up to his real body. The mechanics of that and everything else is uncertain, especially once we reason that the inner simulation is not at all what it seems to be. --- I didn't really enjoy the first half of this movie, since it felt like there were a lot of plot holes, or that computers shouldn't really work this way. Ironically, the second half cleared it up, although it's kind of gimmicky to suggest that everything was not necessarily real, it somehow worked. This is a movie that leaves the rest up to us, instead of spelling it all out. It's sort of like an amalgation, or it takes some ideas from some of my favorite movies:
I find that Hello World seems to fit within the themes from these movies. |
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