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| − | + | Discussed in Susan J. Napier’s “[[When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain|When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' and ''Serial Experiments: Lain'']].” | |
Revision as of 01:34, 21 January 2021
Serial Experiments Lain. TV mini-series 1998. Japan: Pioneer LDC, Triangle Staff (production) / TV Tokyo (1998) (Japan) (TV) et al., (distribution). Consult IMDb for details on distribution.[1] Languages: IMDb lists English in addition to Japanese. US release: 1999. See IMDb for release dates in other countries and alternative French title, Cyrillic form for Russia, and (non)capitalization for English title in Japan.[2]
IMDb site gives Storyline by "Anonymous" (and as of January 2021 some useful user reviews).
A week after Chisa committed suicide, her classmates begin to receive emails from her. Hearing rumors fly at school, a quiet withdrawn girl named Lain goes home that day, turns on her dusty Navi computer for the first time and has a conversation with the dead girl. Chisa's message reads that she killed herself because she didn't need her body anymore, and she now exists in The Wired. When Lain asks why someone would do something like that she gets a response: "Because God is here".[3]
Key quotations offered by IMDb include
Iwakura, Yasuo: When it's all said and done, the Wired is just a medium of communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse it with the real world. Do you understand what I'm warning you about?
Lain Iwakura: You're wrong. [***] The border between the two isn't all that clear. I'll be able to enter it soon. In full range. Full motion. I'll translate myself into it.
Iwakura, Yasuo: Even with a top of the line civilian Navi, you couldn't.
Lain Iwakura: I can do it. I've modified mine.
Iwakura, Yasuo: A Psyche processor, huh? But...
Lain Iwakura: Don't worry. I'm still me.
Iwakura, Yasuo: Sometimes I wonder.
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Miho Iwakura: The wired might actually be thought of as a highly advanced upper layer of the real world. In other words, physical reality is nothing but an illusion, a hologram of the information that flows to us through the wired. [***] This is because the body, physical motion, the activity of the human brain is merely a physical phenomenon, simply caused by synapses delivering electrical impulses. [***]The physical body exists at a less evolved plane only to verify one's existence in the universe.[4]
Discussed in Susan J. Napier’s “When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain.”
RDE, finishing, 20Jan21
