The realities of Millennium Actress (and our realities in general)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21NT-t0r3w - 22:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPADdApAJ4 - 7:20
In light of recent events, I feel like talking about what is going on in the world now. At the same
time, however, I have also been preparing to talk about a certain anime movie. Instead of creating two
separate posts to talk about these two things separately, I will attempt to talk about these two things in
this post with the help of the two videos I use in this reflection by relating both to our realities in a
general sense.
The first video talks about how to deal with our present reality by a way to pass the time while self -
isolating, which is to watch anime on your own. What anime you watch depends on what you like
and/or do when it comes to anime (that should be the case at least), or your own individual reality, but I
do not think watching anime on your own is enough. This means that you shouldn't just watch anime
on your own, but talk to people about it, either in person, through videos (like the ones I use here),
and/or in some form of writing (like what I do here too). Doing this with other things, not just anime,
is also helpful, even if it has to be done in different ways due to changes in our realities, like now. For
example, the convocation assemblies our school does are still done virtually. Livestreaming Masses
and other prayer services is also common during these times. If anything, times like these encourage
different ways of thinking, as well as different ways of living (I still live with my monastic community,
which is certainly interesting now).
The second video gives an example of an anime movie that talks about the different ways of
understanding our realities. In addition to everything I said about the first video, the second video
takes these ideas further by offering a discourse on the meaning of our realities with a specific example
(created by Satoshi Kon, a creator who probably would have welcomed such a discourse since this
was most likely the intention of his work).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPADdApAJ4 - 7:20
In light of recent events, I feel like talking about what is going on in the world now. At the same
time, however, I have also been preparing to talk about a certain anime movie. Instead of creating two
separate posts to talk about these two things separately, I will attempt to talk about these two things in
this post with the help of the two videos I use in this reflection by relating both to our realities in a
general sense.
The first video talks about how to deal with our present reality by a way to pass the time while self -
isolating, which is to watch anime on your own. What anime you watch depends on what you like
and/or do when it comes to anime (that should be the case at least), or your own individual reality, but I
do not think watching anime on your own is enough. This means that you shouldn't just watch anime
on your own, but talk to people about it, either in person, through videos (like the ones I use here),
and/or in some form of writing (like what I do here too). Doing this with other things, not just anime,
is also helpful, even if it has to be done in different ways due to changes in our realities, like now. For
example, the convocation assemblies our school does are still done virtually. Livestreaming Masses
and other prayer services is also common during these times. If anything, times like these encourage
different ways of thinking, as well as different ways of living (I still live with my monastic community,
which is certainly interesting now).
The second video gives an example of an anime movie that talks about the different ways of
understanding our realities. In addition to everything I said about the first video, the second video
takes these ideas further by offering a discourse on the meaning of our realities with a specific example
(created by Satoshi Kon, a creator who probably would have welcomed such a discourse since this
was most likely the intention of his work).
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