Question - How did Shiki come back near the end?

Jan 4, 2015 1:54 PM

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I've watched this movie a few times now, but I haven't read the novels. Thanks to people answering questions her in the forum, I understand most of the details, but there's one pivotal moment that I still don't understand, and it is portrayed as such a climax that I really want to be able to break it down and enjoy it.

This moment is when Shiki is returning in the elevator and Araya is told that if he wanted to keep Shiki away, he should have imprisoned her in cement walls.

So where did Araya try to imprison her in the first place? Does this have to do with the weird scenes that seemed to be in first person view of Shiki where you hear her voice, but don't see her body, because I don't understand those either.

Secondly, Araya seems really clever and his plan was very methodical. Because of this, the mistake of imprisoning Shiki by the wrong means seems like a childish mistake that doesn't fit the intelligence of his character. Was there something that warranted this thought process of his?

Finally, the barrage of clips that seem like a stream of consciousness sort of thing don't quite ring home with me. What do these clips represent?

Feb 10, 2015 11:52 AM

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Araya put Shiki in a bounded field he made so to make sure she's absolutely isolated from the outside. His origin is stillness, meaning he was born to be naturally talented when it comes to things like barriers.
You could say that as a magus he did a flawless job, but Shiki, by being able to literally rip a bounded field with her finger alone, is a complete exception. The point here is that Araya's thought process was perfect in its methodical way, but he did everything so well as a magus dealing with common sense that he ommited what he was trying to isolate was transcendental even against the occult, like in a food chain somehow.

The barrage of clips near the end represents some records from what Araya was trying to reach, what Shiki is connected to, what the buidling (which is one of Araya's bounded fields) was designed to imitate and what the fifth chapter is all about. Akasha, the swirl of the root which is like the ultimate and only goal of every decent magus. The origin of the world is void, Shiki connected to it when a part of herself died and returned to the root, leaving a literal void inside her.

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