QUOTE (J-san)I have to say this out loud but this is the most anticipated anime movie of 2007 for meFor me as well!!
Why?because I'm one who has pledged loyalty to
Nasu-sama and
Takeuchi-sama with the rest of
Type-Moon!
Anyway,I've read some part of the novel,and...well.....being a
Type-Moon's slave,with no graphics or soundtracks,YET! I've already being absorbed by this story which is supposedly 3 times more interesting than
Tsukihime (according to
Nasu-sama himself...
)
A bit of the novel's content....just want this to become a teaser and to hook a few more people to look forward for this promising movie...
*WARNING!Mind-splitting content up-ahead!Reading this might as well twist and snap your mind in two!Read on your own risk and discretion!(I'm not responsible for things like 'OMG!The God-damn spoilers!' or '....?
...Too complex...my mind...my intelligence...logic...reasons...seems fading away..' okay?!
)
---"Kokutoh, what do you think a view from a high place reminds you of?"
This sudden question pulls me back into reality.
I haven't really been at a high place since I went to the Tokyo Tower as a child. I don't really remember what I thought about it then. Only thing is that I tried so hard to find the place I lived, but ended up not being able to find it.
"Maybe small?"
"That's too shrewd of a remark, Kokutou."
A cold response comes back. Well, I was a bit doubtful about my remark myself. I pull myself together and try to think of something else.
"Let's see. There isn't much that it reminds me of, but I do think it's beautiful. A view from a high place is overwhelming."
Probably because this response was more from my heart, Tohko-san nods in agreement.
And still staring outside, Tohko-san continues to talk.
"The scenary you see is magnificent. Even an boring one looks beautiful. But that's not the impulse you feel when you look down onto the world you live in. The overlooking view only gives you one impulse..."
Saying the word "impulse", Tohko-san cuts off her sentence.
Impulse is not something that comes from within you like feelings, but rather something that attacks you from the outside. Even if the one attacked by it doesn't want it.
Something like violence that attacks you without warning, that is what we call impulses.
Then what is the violence that is brought by an overlooking view?
"That is being "far". A vision too big creates a vivid seperation between you and the world. People can only feel safe around things close to them. Even if one has the most detailed map and knows exactly where they are, it's only information, right?
For us, the world is only something we can feel ourselves. The boundaries between cities, countries, and the world, is only something that our brain recognizes and we ourselves cannot feel them unless we actually go to that place. And in reality, there is nothing wrong with that way of recognition.
But if the vision is too large, discrepancy occurs. The 10m area around you that you actually feel and the 10km area that you are looking down on. They are both the world you live in, yet you feel the first one as more real.
See? There's already an inconsistancy. It's more correct for you to recognize the larger world you see as the world you live in rather than the small space around you. But no matter how hard you try, you cannot feel that you are living on this big world.
The reason being, what feels more real is always something that is around you. Your reasoning as your knowledge and your experience as your feeling crashes against each other and eventually, one will lose and confusion will start.
... how small the city is from up here. I can't even imagine my house was down there. Was that park shaped that way? I didn't even know that was there. This is like a town I don't know about. It feels like I've come to a place far away.
... A high perspective brings these kinds of thinkings. Even though the person is still standing on one part of that city they're looking down on..."
There's more to this mind-splitting things...but it'll get too long and the mods surely won't be happy if I do that..
Anyway...please read the interesting contents above and join us(seems there's only a few of 'us' here...) on this journey(?) of waiting for
Kara no Kyoukai's movie in full-anticipation!