40-odd years on and people still can't wrap their heads around the "rape" scene in which there was no rape, the assaulter never even took his clothes off, and who stopped the whole assault before he actually got knocked out. Shiro himself stops the attack right before Riqunni brains him with that candle.Riqunni isn't a failure in life because she's a woman. She's a failure because she invests all her hopes on other people and other ideas and nothing in herself. Her relationship with Shiro is one in which both are looking for a messiah in the other. When Shiro runs off to her shack, he's desperate to find a deeper meaning for his life than what he sees as an empty mission into orbit. The problem he finds is that her life is empty. She preaches to the crowd, but really has no ideas of her own to offer them. Shiro spends the entire film going from person to person, asking them what life's all about, and he gets several little speeches from Dr. Gnomm, Gen. Kaiden, Matti, and even freaking Yanalan on the launch gantry the night before. But from Riqunni? Nothing. Silence. Maybe a little soup, but no little speech about how she sees the world and definitely no attempt to move the relationship to a level beyond their sick codependency. I always viewed his assault as his desperate, deranged attempt to get Riqunni to engage with him on some level. Her only really proactive moment in the film was her hitting him with the candle, and then she won't even talk about why he did what he did, show anger, or even acknowledge that he'd done anything wrong. Why? Because just as Shiro sees her as his ticket to enlightenment, she sees him as her connection to a world where people try to change their destinies. To even admit that he wasn't the hero she saw him as would be like denying her God, so she just ignores it and turns it around so that she's somehow the one who did something wrong.
>>287760776>She's a failure because she invests all her hopes on other people and other ideas and nothing in herself.In other words, because she's a woman
>>287760776disagree on two points>an empty mission into orbit.its the day to day vacuousness that's getting to him. Celebrities rub shoulders just to be seen with him and immediately move on. His former friends resent him for going from a slacker to the nation's golden child. Everybody just sees the propaganda poster child and completely ceases to treat him like a human. >. I always viewed his assault as his desperate, deranged attempt to get Riqunni to engage with him on some level. When he attempted assault, that was him lashing out because he wanted to be punished to ground him and bring him back to reality before he started believing all the bullshit just to cope. And when it seemed like she wasn't going to fight back it really clicked that not only would he probably get away with it, the government would probably cover it up, silence his victim, and give him a slap on the wrist for "indiscretion."In other words he realized the only thing that could actually forve himself to be a good person, whatever that entails, has to come from within. Because if he just conforms to external pressures they will shape him into a bad person, and he knows what that entails.
>>287760776say that in court, you pig.
