lmao

Lol I get it 😂

Lol no we don’t 😂

you are an honest man

'seem'

FOR REAL THOUGH she discovered she wasn’t who she expected to be and then her family was real?? Then she spiraled into despair and the only moments that present tranquility or at least relief is when Arisu reaffirms her existence or when she has her dad when she feels lonely and desperate

In the ps1 Canon she builds a giant dad-bot just to hold her. It's so sad

True

@@boscorner is her dad even that good tho?

Let’s all love lain…

yeah the stupid ones

@@tapsofosiris3110 U ain't safe bruh

@@tapsofosiris3110 The stupid ones? Dude, that means everyone!

Yeah this shit is deep!

@@rumfordc LOL!!!

Perfect Blue is the exact same way.

Present day heh, present time hahahahaha

@@Alex918YT i agree. I watched perfect blue and then i was recommended Lain. I then stepped back and looked at the world around me. Everyone on their phone. Taking selfies. Making Tik Toks. Its a nightmare that left mea bit fucked up for weeks.

Col not agree, though. In the series the world shown is at some different, higher, level, compared to what we got here now. It will take years and years, or maybe will never happens in reality at all.

@@JebAlert I was looking for this comment

It's called Psychological Horror. The movie "Get Out" is a good example of it.

yeah, its a bit confusing and this anime brings anxiety sometimes... that's why i can't watch it till the end, i just feel so confused, but i still think this anime is interesting in it's own way

@@kanitmann946 How can you compare Lain with such... movie?

For me when watching it, its like a fear of our reality breaking, everything we ever knew was wrong or imagined, and realizing we have zero control, etc. Its definitely a existential fear.

I think the phrase you're looking for is existential anxiety.

But nobody asks, "How is lain?"

@@applebottomjeansss i do

It would be great if film theory had an intro to a 'Lain' video that starts with that lyric, and then Mat Pat would narrate and say, "I do now - more or less, I think? Welcome to Film Theory!"

A shame you seemed to be a honest man

i guess it's a deep anime which is you have to watch it several times to understand, its just like EOE or Ergo proxy, i have to watch it repeatly and thus a bit understand whats happening

I'll explain it in 2 words... higher conscience! 😎

@@hapwn i can explain it in three: Jair Messias Bolsonaro

@@antigraphein943 O dia que a consciência humana depender de uma pessoa que mostra caixas de cloroquina para emas e que mal consegue argumentar qualquer coisa, a humanidade está perdida!

@@tailsondelima335 triggered

@@tailsondelima335 Eu não creio que tem gente falando do Bolsonaro até em um vídeo americano, sobre um anime que não tem nada a ver com a situação. Você deixa o Twitter, mas o Twitter não deixa você.

This is also how i interpreted it

Nice interpretation, however, there is no Trinity. You shouldn't forget the existence of "god", who was the one to manipulate the whole thing and create Lain. Lain is just the byproduct of a being who abandoned his body for his wish to be loved. She just choose to destroy him and isolate herself from the world, cuz she doesn't want to be what her creator wished the to be, she defied the will of her alter ego, that's it, wired Lain, and supressed her by making everyone forget about her.

Serial experiments Lain is a story which talks about a girl who defied her destiny by contradicting even the wish of her creator. She didn't want to destroy her physical form because everyone trough that her wired form was more fit to be Lain, she wished for a existence where she doesn't need to make anyone suffer because her existence and ability to modify everyone's memories trough the wired, that's why she made everyone forget about her.

As the anime itself says, we only exist in the perception of others. If no one can see us, we doesn't really have a connection with anyone, however, we still exist somewhere. If someone dies, his remnants transform the reality in a way or another, however big or small, even if no one notices that. Even trough Lain can't die and can't be see by others, she will still be here, and will return to reality if she ever sees the need for that.

In short, she's a NOBODY. No one knows she exists and she can't participate in any human affairs, nobody cares or remembers her. Some sad existence. And, no. God doesn't exist. Not in that way this movie thinks anyway. The real thing is: We are all our own individual gods. And we each are powerful beings able to make our own fates. So this concept of "big brother is watching" has always been kinda dumb for me. These themes are so common in anime and game at that era (before Y2K, where people were so dumbly excited about the world ending just as year 2000 hits, the conspiracy theory that all systems are going to crash and the world went into chaos, etc. And HELLOOO??? Today is 2023 and nothing of that sort is happening. In fact, life is just easier. More connected, but IN A GOOD WAY), so every anime studio kinda compete for the trophy of the weirdest, heaviest, psychological bullshit they can muster up. Let's hire the mentally sickest story creator to do so, if possible. And ramp up the angst. Wanna know something funny? You'll find that today's generation of Japanese youths DON'T CARE ANYMORE about these kinds of anime. They're all into the more relaxed and laid back genshin impact thingys. Afterall, it's more realistic. Life is already so hard as it is. No need to complicate them further with scifi Psychological babble. They don't care for fridge logic anymore when getting steady jobs are harder than being an omnipresent E-girl. Its only people who got their on their late trains in ANIME exposure who think this is great stuff. Well, as in all case of "seeing it as the 1st time.. Awe". I was unfortunate and get exposed on one too many copycats/similar themed anime. And I realized that it's dumb all along. It's like complicated diet routines that seems smart but only ruins the body instead. And I thought major Kusanagi was cool as a 5 year old. Now I think she's just a damn bland and boring lesbian piece of junk. Cheers.

Did they never publish an official explanation?

@@tillum7593 in interviews they basicaly said they wanted viewers to come to their own interpretations. I cant post the link here because youtube will delete the comment

You got likes thought I'd tell you

@@Nayhan123 whats her ap scale?

But she ultimately rebels against Protocol 7 and Eiri in order to let humans just be well....human.

so like instrumentality in evangelion

Very similar to Christian mythology, which is also similar to Egyptian mythology.

@@SocialKidmusic dude. Do you even read the bible?

@@jonasjasikevicius8780 Yes I do.

Precisely

Because trying to explain the story from the beginning after watching the whole thing is really damn hard.

I really didn't get the anime am i dumb or it just very confusing in the way it tells its story

oofingberg just finished it and it’s a very big mind fuck I gurante you over 95% of the viewer base was lost on their first watch.

@@mranimetalks8168 99% was. You arent guaranterable

The same Hegel who was right? I mean wrong... no, he was right. No, not right. He was wrong, definitely. I think he was right, however.

@@baltofarlander2618 lol

Concluding ; since we have watched the show lain exists, therefore lain is.

This is same idea tackled in NGE hmm

That is what I came away with. The real lain is the lain that exists. While information of you does exist in others, and a general concept of you has always existed, the only true existence is you. Throughout the story they try to get the real lane to destroy her body so that the lain in the wired takes her place, but she rejects that idea and continues to anchor the many versions of herself around the real her.

@@Shadow_Play3r yes it is, but nge is a little bit more confusing imo

@@Shadow_Play3r Kind of but its told in a much more raw, visceral way rather than how lain does it, mainly due to the fact that Anno was extremely depressed and suicidal when making Eva

Yeah I think it plays the concept of how human can be fundamentally both good and evil. We only try to show our good and socially accepted side to the world and especially the internet where we can create a perfect persona. but even though we hide (anti-lain) the things we hate about ourselves or considered immoral and unacceptable behavior or opinions in society doesn’t mean it’s not there. I love how he explain the 3 lains because their in all of us w

I swear, it’s like every small thing in the show has multiple interpretations that can all be right at the same time

doesn't make much sense though

It's the thing about the Earth's population approaching the same as the number of neurons in the brain too

About lain family acting weird and the "dad" coming back to say goodbye when he was told not to in the show as well as being questioned if her family is real or not it kinda exposed it at least for me also the strange suit men stalking her who seemed to be able to get away with stuff it was definitely suspicious

Tyler lain od’s on acid and disassociates for a week

Serial Experiments Lain, is closer to our universe than you'd think. This is the future

R. D. Laing, the person Lain was named after, said that schizophrenic people are the first ones to awaken to the true nature of reality. Lain being schizophrenic doesnt mean the narrative is wrong and all those supernatural things arent real, its the opposite!

​@@YY-ln1ol by communicating do u mean your bussy actually "receives" the message ??

Get in the Lain, Shinji!

...they are both 14...

They're basically the same anime except one has cool mechs and one has kawaii girl in bear suit.

@@seedubhuntx the original evangelion never had a problem with that

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oh wow i never thought about it like this ...!! very interesting

Agree... I'm me

Is this a hegel refrence?

Lain is Lain

Cool and good

@@lainiwakura4678 I'm me she says

because rabid consumption of the internet and/or anime induces schizophrenia

@@sjuvanet impossible

@@thomasdilfurd4176 nope

@@sjuvanet Can't say I can prove you wrong but in my experiences it's been the other way around.

@@MIWRISOT if you substitute your reality with an imaginary anime one for long enough, you are bound to blend the two and find both element blending into each other. e.g., weeb kids that watch too much naruto and start doing the handsigns with the intention of accomplishing something outside of rp, or kids who watch dbz attempting to go super saiyan. autism amplifies it all.

Right brain hemisphere thinks in images after all, and it is the one possessed by God

@W0RLD W1D3 4P47HY Ikr?

ITS CRAZY

Your parents are Lain fans huh? Tell them they are cool.

You are cool :)

B r o

😂😂😂 lmfao

Yeah, i'm french and i put english subtitles to better learn the language but when it's auto generated by youtube it's a real mess

can you elaborate on the significance of the orange lightning and what there is beyond the wired? it sounds extremely interessting

@@tillum7593 ​The “beyond the wired” stuff pretty much all hinge on the discussion between Lain and herself in episode 13. Now, the translation is a little iffy and kinda change from version to version but as best as I understand it, when Lain ask where she is after failing to delete herself, the other Lain more or less says that “it can’t be the wired or the collective unconscious because no human structure could store such a vast amount of memory”. Lain then remark that “the wired was just connected to something else, but what?”. The “what” is never elaborated on, but we can still logically deduce what it isn’t and some of its properties: - As plainly said, this isn’t the wired nor the collective unconscious but something much, much bigger. - It probably isn’t the Schumann resonance either, as Lain is well aware of its existence and effects on the wired since it was used by Eiri. So it wouldn’t make sense for her to be surprised by it. - It contain memory, and a tremendous amount of it at that. It is more or less suggested that at least all the information created by humanity is in there, including memories from the future. - Being there is making Lain effectively omnipresent through both space and time. With all of that we can deduce that we are dealing with an everywhere, everywhen kind of dimension that contain at least all of humanity memory. So, a pretty nifty place, but also a very lonely one, or so it would seem until “father” appear out of the orange ^^ Now the first thing to note about this apparition is that Lain make a clear point of distinguishing it from Yasuo, her fake human father. She always called Yasuo “Papa” while she refers to the apparition with a much more formal “father”. The implication here, I think, is that “father” is the “true god” that Lain and Eiri refer to in their final confrontation in episode 12. The entity that started it all by inspiring Eiri into rewriting protocol 7 and Lain true “creator” of sorts. But what interest us here is that the guy seems to be quite fond of the dawn/twilight as he hang out above the clouds in a sky bathed in orange light. And this is not the first time in the show that kind of lighting was used. The most obvious from a cinematography stand-point is that scene in episode 5 where infant Lain sit in the part of her room bathed in twilight while “puppets” spout Knights propaganda at her from the shadows. The allegory here being pretty clearly that the Knights and Eiri are detouring Lain from her “father” and whatever he represent. Other scenes include Hodgeson final moments and the meeting with the Tachibana executive. Overall, orange lighting seem to represent the presence or the influence of “father” in a scene, a pretty smart way to include his character in the entire show while only revealing him in the last episode.

​@@Robin447 Thank you so much for writing this!

​@@Robin447absolutely correct. The wired in the end was directly attached to the spirit world. Very few people understand this part of the show as well

​@@ratecyanbasically the concept of the "watcher" in eastern philosophy. The idea of reality and illusion being the same thing is obvious across the east, tracing it's way all the way back to the idea of our reality being Vishnu's sleeping dream. If we take new perspectives the universe as a sort of functioning mind a la Bateson and Jung, then the reason why we exist is because we're a part of someone else's imagination.

Freud sucks, lain sucks, both cringe-lord crap

Same, I love Lain a lot but I never recommend it to anyone. Just because most people will not be able to understand unless they watch one of these videos.

@@kenmahyu exactly! i get hesitant whenever someone asks me if animes like this are good because while they are, i'd rather not put the stress of understanding everything on them

@@drainyourlife It's not good lol. its edgelord cringe and bad

@@steiwe5648 i get that ur brain's so tiny it's barely capable of understanding anything let alone why people like s.e.l. but people have different opinions

@@steiwe5648 I bet you watch shit like rent a girlfriend

is that a nge reference?

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The mind is like anything else: skills, talents, muscles etc.......You keep using, practicing, pushing your own limits, and in time you'll see great amounts of growth.

Writing like this isn't made to be 100% understood since a good protion of it comes from concepts and vague ideas that are presented to invoke certain feelings, not understanding the certain parts is not a bad thing either. That's why even the authors of such pieces are open for different interpretations, they knwo nobody can see it from their view, but other views are not wrong. i'm not a writer myself, but maybe you should start with thinking of concecpts and an atmosphere you want to convey instead of a clear plotline first, adding more until it takes form. Pretty sure complex writing is never a straight way from start to finish.

You are NOT stupid. If you want to write you’ll need to practice and sharpen your skills.

you aren't stupid my friend. this is really complex as the topic lain is. it's good to admire people for things they are capable of but please stop talking yourself down. when you lack of one thing, other things in you are therefor stronger. start looking for those, enhance them and be proud of them instead of being angry of something you think that lacks in you. sorry if i can't bring over my point, english isn't my mother language but i hope you got what i want to say. never talk so bad about yourself kay? :)

Don't tell yourself that you're stupid. For one, I don't agree with everything sad in this video, but this does not make me stupid, nor does it make the person who made the video seem stupid. If you look me something and you would like to invest time and energy into that activity, then simply do it. Start with baby steps, focus on the present and try not to be so judgemental with yourself. Remember, most great things star of as being small things.

yay you got it.

Amazing

@@akiradkcn lets love lain

what was the liquid? or why was the liquid there?

huh so y was there liquid?

@@tillum7593 13:12

@@nutsafiso7609 13:12

​@@tillum7593 It's a cooling agent made so the navi doesn't overheat

Hugely autistic comment

Hahaha im distraught at my inability to even put in effort to seriously try to uncover these hidden meanings and just straight away go to explanation videos.

@@electricfishfan7159 yup, huge agree. Altough I do think that perfect blue is a little more general about the dissociation, Lain can be read as a story with/about DID while perfect blue can't. No question that they both involve a lot of dissociation though

yeah, that's my interpretation too, saw a pretty good reddit comment saying about the God appearing as her dad which this vid lets out. Out of that, pretty much spot on. it's awesome we can come with different POVs based upon this piece

Nice choice. The bs we hear and learn during our life might shape us into a really unwished formed, truly sad.