Also, the word monochrome sums it up you know? The same color in different shades - Black, White, and Gray, Black and White being two colors that are often seen as opposities but in this case they are just different shades of each other...again the schizophrenia. Its like you say, the he is separating from the person he was, and becoming something or someone else, but it is still all the same, jsut different shades of his original self, amazing lyrics.
hey,
I propose an interpretation that's closer to the show's content. Since it's GITS we're talking about, I feel that this song is more about a relationship between a man and a machine. It'a about an union between two worlds, one is an ocean of human soul, and the other is a cyber ocean of a machine.
hey,
I propose an interpretation that's closer to the show's content. Since it's GITS we're talking about, I feel that this song is more about a relationship between a man and a machine. It'a about an union between two worlds, one is an ocean of human soul, and the other is a cyber ocean of a machine.
The part about emotions isn't that clear to me, I'm shuffling between two interpretations:
The part about emotions isn't that clear to me, I'm shuffling between two interpretations:
One is that the relationship is disintegrating, and the person in this song is sad because of that, her emotions are hurt. As to what the cyber-ocean feels, we...
One is that the relationship is disintegrating, and the person in this song is sad because of that, her emotions are hurt. As to what the cyber-ocean feels, we can't be sure. "The line : I hope you will make more lasting connections" Clearly signifies this. Somehow I feel that those words mean that the object of feelings of the person who sings the song doesn't have feelings in the end. So the entire union is just an illusion of the person, and machine doesn't feel anything. She's begginning to see that it's all inside her mind, and she treats a lifeless thing like an another person. Thus the monochrome of sadness.
Second interpretation would mean that that althought the relationship is over, the machine gained something from it, emotions ("Who taught you emotions"). Also dreams, and an awerness of one's end (totality). So it become self aware, and left. The person is hurt but still hoping that maybe the new entity will find something better out there. The way we sometimes feel about someone we once loved but somewhow it wouldn't work out.
Now the most important of both of those interpretations is the idea that we humans, longing for the machines to be alive, by showing them affection, and love, we can wake them up, somehow breathing the life into them.
That idea, as crazy as it seems, is very visible in all of Masamune Shirrows work, and is prevailent in many episodes of GITS (it's most visible in the episode with diplomats son and his doll, and of course with Batou's treatment of non living things aka "the love to the machine" which in return wakes up Tachikomas with help of the mineral oil.
I would put this song in this context, but of course the schizopfemia interpretation will work as well.
Because the idea of the song is: is the person who's hurt crazy? or maybe it really had a relationship with a machine? I leave the answer to you.
ps. I would kiss the ground that the Youko Kanno threads on, some songs on GITS OST's are just that great. :)
Also, the word monochrome sums it up you know? The same color in different shades - Black, White, and Gray, Black and White being two colors that are often seen as opposities but in this case they are just different shades of each other...again the schizophrenia. Its like you say, the he is separating from the person he was, and becoming something or someone else, but it is still all the same, jsut different shades of his original self, amazing lyrics.
hey, I propose an interpretation that's closer to the show's content. Since it's GITS we're talking about, I feel that this song is more about a relationship between a man and a machine. It'a about an union between two worlds, one is an ocean of human soul, and the other is a cyber ocean of a machine.
hey, I propose an interpretation that's closer to the show's content. Since it's GITS we're talking about, I feel that this song is more about a relationship between a man and a machine. It'a about an union between two worlds, one is an ocean of human soul, and the other is a cyber ocean of a machine.
The part about emotions isn't that clear to me, I'm shuffling between two interpretations:
The part about emotions isn't that clear to me, I'm shuffling between two interpretations:
One is that the relationship is disintegrating, and the person in this song is sad because of that, her emotions are hurt. As to what the cyber-ocean feels, we...
One is that the relationship is disintegrating, and the person in this song is sad because of that, her emotions are hurt. As to what the cyber-ocean feels, we can't be sure. "The line : I hope you will make more lasting connections" Clearly signifies this. Somehow I feel that those words mean that the object of feelings of the person who sings the song doesn't have feelings in the end. So the entire union is just an illusion of the person, and machine doesn't feel anything. She's begginning to see that it's all inside her mind, and she treats a lifeless thing like an another person. Thus the monochrome of sadness.
Second interpretation would mean that that althought the relationship is over, the machine gained something from it, emotions ("Who taught you emotions"). Also dreams, and an awerness of one's end (totality). So it become self aware, and left. The person is hurt but still hoping that maybe the new entity will find something better out there. The way we sometimes feel about someone we once loved but somewhow it wouldn't work out.
Now the most important of both of those interpretations is the idea that we humans, longing for the machines to be alive, by showing them affection, and love, we can wake them up, somehow breathing the life into them.
That idea, as crazy as it seems, is very visible in all of Masamune Shirrows work, and is prevailent in many episodes of GITS (it's most visible in the episode with diplomats son and his doll, and of course with Batou's treatment of non living things aka "the love to the machine" which in return wakes up Tachikomas with help of the mineral oil.
I would put this song in this context, but of course the schizopfemia interpretation will work as well.
Because the idea of the song is: is the person who's hurt crazy? or maybe it really had a relationship with a machine? I leave the answer to you.
ps. I would kiss the ground that the Youko Kanno threads on, some songs on GITS OST's are just that great. :)