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[PROFILE] [REVIEWED BY ISAAC HAYWARD] I have dedicated this section of the magazine to examine a figure I admire for their ability to encourage mankind to a better tomorrow. People that have inspired me to be a better person with a stronger view on life from what they have taught through their works. Be they a musician, director, writer, actor, or even a character. Here I wish to examine what may be an animated character, but still remain a figure to instill hope and inspiration to brighten our lives and leaves hope for a better future.
"Make me sad, make me mad, make me feel alright?" No Home, No Race, No Nation, No Freedom, Not No Life. No Face, No Home, No Place, No Position, But lain exists. Lain Iwakura We have passed the dawn of a new millennium. Gone are the days of our ignorance in the understanding of technology, our barbaric beginnings and defined individualism have melted away as people have come to understand themselves and the feelings that preside inside. We have identified a yearning that lies inside all of us to be connected and completed by others. Our existence now is provided to meet those needs, gone are the needs for survival as technology draws the boundaries of our world closer together than ever first thought possible. Freedom is now giving creation to imagination, untamed landscapes where our minds can play. We pour our hearts and our minds simultaneously into the Internet in search of whats missing. And in doing so, amongst all the wires of the world, created from programs of infinite structure, feed with the desperate cries of every soul on this planet, has been born a creature that exists everywhere. A creation that is no less than god, knowing every truth, every secret, every lie, every person. Silently watching it sits, listening in the back of your mind. But when man seeks to yield this power to achieve the ultimate conclusion of man’s evolution, to once again have all humanity connected at a sub-conscious level, the result is Lain. An unknowing child, innocent to the ways of the world is sort out by herself that exists online and within everyone. She was born into this world not knowing of her beginnings, grew up in a family that was never her’s, she grew up living a lie. She had always understood her disconnection from everyone else from the beginning, alone and isolated, innocent to the ways of the world. That is until she discovered the Internet. She had found a world where people existed behind closed doors, a world where people welcomed one another, a world where she was free from the constraints of the real world and found what she was missing in herself, companionship. She grew upon these feelings, searching the endless wired for what she was missing like millions of others until she found herself. She found herself spreading the rumors of others throughout the wired until she realized that she was the others and the others were her. There is always a strong degree of physiology introduced through-out the series that is ‘Serial Experiments : Lain’ that always mimix our own feelings of insecurity in a single character in a very surreal way. This has always been an element that the Japanese animation directors have handled very successfully in the past and does so in their most abstract creation yet, Lain. She is unable to believe in herself though, even when coming to terms with her existence and purpose instead seeks to trust herself in the hands of a false god. She dedicates her life to him, knowing he was her creator, until she came to understand the fundamentals of life. We all exist in a world were we are complete, a world were the power of the heart is stronger than the emptiness that will never claim us unless we let it. Each step of Lain’s evolution can be tightly tied in with our own as we pass through life struggling to find ourselves. As the series concludes, it seeks to help us with the final step of our personal evolution, to help us to understand that we are not alone, a kind heart is always looking over our shoulder, be it ourselves or a loved one. Lain is the character from the highly successful series ‘Serial Experiments : Lain’ that is a highly twisted and disturbing anime that examines the human soul, deals with youth suicide, and examines how close the wired is becoming to the real world. The style, feelings and themes from the character and series can be found beautifully highlighted in the music of the ‘Cyberia’ album.
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