thank you Japan you never seem to grasp reality in the same way each day
( , Sat 11 Jun 2016, 16:02, Share, Reply)
( , Sat 11 Jun 2016, 16:02, Share, Reply)
My Mandarin is a little rusty but here's a rough outline of the plot as expressed through the text and lyrics
Rough gang boy expresses disapproval of girl's plain features. Girl resolves to change her features through experimental gene surgery that promises to "bring out the inner beauty trapped in her genes" ( 我说的废话 ). When the bandages are removed, she discovers that her "inner beauty" transcends that of present Chinese society and the surgery has unlocked something far more primeval - an archetype beauty. Racial memories start flooding her mind - from Eve in the Garden of Eden, to the mermaid representing civilisations long lost beneath the waves, to a Korean village in wartime in which her lover is taken from her, she discovers that she is One and she is Everything and should be happy with whatever she is given.
The ladies with stripey suits represent the DNA double helix and how, although it seems to just dance around, has an order and will always return to the Archetypical state.
It's a really pretty damned deep message, if you ask me.
Or you could just go by the Wikipedia description, but that was probably written by an ignorant hack.
我说的废话
( , Sat 11 Jun 2016, 22:16, Share, Reply)
Rough gang boy expresses disapproval of girl's plain features. Girl resolves to change her features through experimental gene surgery that promises to "bring out the inner beauty trapped in her genes" ( 我说的废话 ). When the bandages are removed, she discovers that her "inner beauty" transcends that of present Chinese society and the surgery has unlocked something far more primeval - an archetype beauty. Racial memories start flooding her mind - from Eve in the Garden of Eden, to the mermaid representing civilisations long lost beneath the waves, to a Korean village in wartime in which her lover is taken from her, she discovers that she is One and she is Everything and should be happy with whatever she is given.
The ladies with stripey suits represent the DNA double helix and how, although it seems to just dance around, has an order and will always return to the Archetypical state.
It's a really pretty damned deep message, if you ask me.
Or you could just go by the Wikipedia description, but that was probably written by an ignorant hack.
我说的废话
( , Sat 11 Jun 2016, 22:16, Share, Reply)