The messiah is a 12-year-old girl!
Serial Experiments Lain manages to internalize the whole Japanese feel of the turn of the millennium, while adding a philosophical-ontological debate on the virtualization of life. From Platonic patristics to data science, this great visual madness, sometimes even amorphous, condenses deep layers of discussion about humanity as such. Is there a threshold between real and virtual? Is there a consciousness that connects us above all else? Is this consciousness God? Lain is a deity discovering or perhaps deconstructing itself in the face of a world that worships it. She only exists in our consciousnesses and what is not remembered ceases
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