Chobits - Life, love, and peep shows (UPDATED!!!)
[Second draft! Spoiler warning! Update 7/2]
"As the man told her to reach between her legs, a voice told her 'No! You must never deactivate, only for the one you love.' "
"He stooped down to hear the young boy. ' Whatever you do, don't forget, no matter how lifelike, how wonderful, how much like a human she may be, don't let yourself fall in love...unless you want to cry.' "
How strangely true it all is. In the case Hidaki falls in love with Chii, should they ever choose to consummate that love, Chii will be gone from him forever. In a strange twist of irony, the very act of love will take his beloved from him.
And it's odd how, even in a life without Persacoms, this very scene is played out countless times a day. A love without commitment will deactivate you. How many people in a day allow themselves to give up all of themselves to another person...for what? A cheap thrill? They will face a lifetime of detachment. By sleeping with someone, they "deactivate" themselves. All truth and meaning is sapped from sex; it becomes just another thing to do with a date. And for what? The quick feeling of release? As though any of that matters!
Anyone can achieve release by themselves; the other person just makes it easier. I often wonder to myself; do people even realize how much of themselves they give up to another person? When a person gives away that part of their life...they cannot have it back. And it's something they can't give to their spouse.
I also wonder; what if Chii HAD allowed herself to deactivate? What then? Would she end up like many of the people in today's society? Hollow, "dead" to the truth that sex hides from them until one day, when they find the right person...and find that all meaning is gone?
But even at that...deactivation wouldn't be the proper word for it. For if Chii was to sleep with Hidaki, she would reset herself. Everything about her would be gone - all her memories, all her thoughts and "emotions". Chii would no longer be who she was to Hidaki; she wouldn't even know who he was.
Does no one in our messed up world REALIZE anymore? Does no one SEE the pattern of coupling and breakups and the hollowness that ensues? A whole generation has been blinded by the Hollywood model of life, love, and marriage. I wonder how truly people believe...or whether or not they truly care. I truly despise what the world has done to my generation. My father once said that weak men were to blame for the state of our nation, and I believe he couldn't be more right.
Mind you, I'm not man-bashing. I have nothing but love for my brothers. But it is the truth, and it isn't only the men that are to blame. A generation of weak-hearted and weak-minded people has jaded the beliefs and actions of the rest of their generation. Women are no better. We are told by the media that we should be skinny, slinky sex kittens who do nothing but ensnare men and leave them when something better comes along. Men believe that women should be reduced to the title of "conquest," to search and ravage, lay claim to, then leave. And the worst part is...NO ONE IS SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT! I'm tired of what passes for life, music, entertainment, fashion, respectable living, marriage, love!
Do people not REALIZE what they are giving up? The chain of frequent, doomed relationships is not a charm bracelet, with past partners to be shown off. When the love of your life is found, that chain suddenly has a heavy weight connected to it - shame. There is so much more offered by a lifetime commitment! Any one of us could be like Chii - open our legs and our lives up to invasion by another, and thus "deactivate" ourselves to the one we will forever be with. If we wait, give ourselves to the one we are forever committed and bound to - our master, per se - we "deactivate" to anyone else. People fail to realize that what STARTS this chain of events is sex - that they will consistantly look to fill the void that they have unwittingly created.
Sex in a commited, married relationship is unlike any you could get from a one-night stand, paid fun, or short and cheap relationship. It's almost mystical, the way body and heart and soul collide in an instant; the mystery of love reveals itself as the body finds what it has always known. When the person is not wholly committed to the one they are with, this action will create a large void; confusion, a sense of loss, searching for something inattainable. But in a commited relationship, when this void is created, the love of the other fills the vacuum. You never have to search for the "other half" that was lost - because it's right there sleeping next to you.
But I digress.
My theories on Chobits - obviously, they will fall in love. Will they try to consummate it? If/when they do, will Chii deactivate, and if/when she does, what will happen? The world may never know. But since it IS anime, we know it will end happily. Chii has the luck [if it could be worded such] that she will not remember that it ever happened. People don't normally have that ability.
Ahh, to be a Persacom...
"As the man told her to reach between her legs, a voice told her 'No! You must never deactivate, only for the one you love.' "
"He stooped down to hear the young boy. ' Whatever you do, don't forget, no matter how lifelike, how wonderful, how much like a human she may be, don't let yourself fall in love...unless you want to cry.' "
How strangely true it all is. In the case Hidaki falls in love with Chii, should they ever choose to consummate that love, Chii will be gone from him forever. In a strange twist of irony, the very act of love will take his beloved from him.
And it's odd how, even in a life without Persacoms, this very scene is played out countless times a day. A love without commitment will deactivate you. How many people in a day allow themselves to give up all of themselves to another person...for what? A cheap thrill? They will face a lifetime of detachment. By sleeping with someone, they "deactivate" themselves. All truth and meaning is sapped from sex; it becomes just another thing to do with a date. And for what? The quick feeling of release? As though any of that matters!
Anyone can achieve release by themselves; the other person just makes it easier. I often wonder to myself; do people even realize how much of themselves they give up to another person? When a person gives away that part of their life...they cannot have it back. And it's something they can't give to their spouse.
I also wonder; what if Chii HAD allowed herself to deactivate? What then? Would she end up like many of the people in today's society? Hollow, "dead" to the truth that sex hides from them until one day, when they find the right person...and find that all meaning is gone?
But even at that...deactivation wouldn't be the proper word for it. For if Chii was to sleep with Hidaki, she would reset herself. Everything about her would be gone - all her memories, all her thoughts and "emotions". Chii would no longer be who she was to Hidaki; she wouldn't even know who he was.
Does no one in our messed up world REALIZE anymore? Does no one SEE the pattern of coupling and breakups and the hollowness that ensues? A whole generation has been blinded by the Hollywood model of life, love, and marriage. I wonder how truly people believe...or whether or not they truly care. I truly despise what the world has done to my generation. My father once said that weak men were to blame for the state of our nation, and I believe he couldn't be more right.
Mind you, I'm not man-bashing. I have nothing but love for my brothers. But it is the truth, and it isn't only the men that are to blame. A generation of weak-hearted and weak-minded people has jaded the beliefs and actions of the rest of their generation. Women are no better. We are told by the media that we should be skinny, slinky sex kittens who do nothing but ensnare men and leave them when something better comes along. Men believe that women should be reduced to the title of "conquest," to search and ravage, lay claim to, then leave. And the worst part is...NO ONE IS SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT! I'm tired of what passes for life, music, entertainment, fashion, respectable living, marriage, love!
Do people not REALIZE what they are giving up? The chain of frequent, doomed relationships is not a charm bracelet, with past partners to be shown off. When the love of your life is found, that chain suddenly has a heavy weight connected to it - shame. There is so much more offered by a lifetime commitment! Any one of us could be like Chii - open our legs and our lives up to invasion by another, and thus "deactivate" ourselves to the one we will forever be with. If we wait, give ourselves to the one we are forever committed and bound to - our master, per se - we "deactivate" to anyone else. People fail to realize that what STARTS this chain of events is sex - that they will consistantly look to fill the void that they have unwittingly created.
Sex in a commited, married relationship is unlike any you could get from a one-night stand, paid fun, or short and cheap relationship. It's almost mystical, the way body and heart and soul collide in an instant; the mystery of love reveals itself as the body finds what it has always known. When the person is not wholly committed to the one they are with, this action will create a large void; confusion, a sense of loss, searching for something inattainable. But in a commited relationship, when this void is created, the love of the other fills the vacuum. You never have to search for the "other half" that was lost - because it's right there sleeping next to you.
But I digress.
My theories on Chobits - obviously, they will fall in love. Will they try to consummate it? If/when they do, will Chii deactivate, and if/when she does, what will happen? The world may never know. But since it IS anime, we know it will end happily. Chii has the luck [if it could be worded such] that she will not remember that it ever happened. People don't normally have that ability.
Ahh, to be a Persacom...