夏日大作战影评

本片是导演细田守继《穿越时空的少女》后，携原班人马倾力打造的又一科幻题材剧场动画，广受好评的《穿越时空的少女》曾一举夺得西班牙加泰罗尼亚国际电影节最佳动画长片，《夏日大作战》亦已入围瑞士洛迦诺国际电影节竞赛单元，并荣膺日本第二十四回“经济产业大臣奖”。

高二这年的暑假对健二来说实在大不同，原本以为能和夏希学姐一起打工，没成想竟变成陪她在老家长野上田的假扮男朋友，荣作为阵内家族的大家长对健二印象绝佳，美好的乡间时光才刚开始，虚拟网络OZ的一场阴谋便紧随其后，更将健二和阵内一家卷入了一场争分夺秒，脑力激荡，令世界翻天覆地的大作战。影片一开始就介绍了一个高度发达的网络世界——ＯＺ世界，这不仅是人们娱乐的虚拟场所，也是现实生活中不可或缺的一部分，因为人们已经过分依赖于这个信息庞大而迅速的先进系统。然而越是先进的东西，越是蕴藏着不可知的恐怖元素，一旦触发将造成难以想象后果。影片以此为背景，讲述了一个普通的高中生无意中帮助黑客（病毒）破坏了OZ世界，导致现实世界的混乱，并最终化解危机，拯救世界的故事。当然不只是这么简单，影片也述说了日本传统家族文化受到现代文化的冲击，这种情况中国也在发生。过多的情节不想剧透，看过之后自会明白。

首先是画面方面。作为故事主战场的OZ，堪称未来网络社区的究极形态，为了表现OZ的强大和无所不能，制作组花费了相当大的

功夫在动画CG上，漂亮的CG和流畅的战斗场面可以说是这部动画最大的优点之一。

故事架构方面，总给我感觉编剧功力不够，有点虎头蛇尾。OZ作为一个连接全世界无所不能的超级网络世界的设定，本来可以更有作为的，但是动画里基本上对OZ的描绘都流于表面化，华丽有余创意不足，其给我带来的惊喜远远比不上《电脑COIL》。而且有些设定实在缺乏合理性，个人账号就算了，OZ控制的账号还包括卫星或核武什么的就太扯远了。

影片中传达的是家庭的温馨，家族的凝聚力，以及协作的信念。所以才有突然拜托健二假装成未婚夫为哄奶奶大寿开心的夏希，所以才有对侘助所表现出的玩世不恭与自暴自弃极度失望与愤怒并挥刀相向的荣，所以才有为准备全家丰盛食材而辛勤整日的女人们，所以才有荣逝世后，在开阔的长廊对着蓝天一个十余秒的长镜头中以不同形态应对悲伤的家人们。所以才有将巨型主机旁散热救急用的冰砖搬去奶奶灵房降温的翔太，所以才有在为打败LM的计划失败而使得阵内家庭信息暴露时懊恼痛哭的主马，所以才有接到夏希电话斥责他任性胡为，惊闻养母荣去世的消息时，往事一一再现，并因焦虑、痛苦、悲愤甚至自责而横冲直撞以致抵达时车已报废的侘助。

影片在表现侘助这种复杂情感时，镜头推进车窗，从震惊的侘助面前掠过，朝着对街的川流不息的行人探索，此时他正在努力回想荣对他来说究竟意味着什么，此刻的死讯带走了什么，就在几个小时前世界发生了什么，改变了什么，又遗忘了什么。是的，他曾遗忘了的

事情重又浮现在脑海。导演仅仅让昔日大手牵小手的荣与侘助在现实中从对街的人群中路过，便将这一富有层次感的动人画面再现在观众面前，令心理与现实两个不同维度的空间产生了共鸣。而接下来便是阵内家人拆开奶奶从前撰就的信笺，信的内容还是在描绘当初领养侘助不久时的情感，于是在画面中，他们从街道走上土坡，从城镇走进乡村，从那时走向现在，于是一家人领会了母亲的深意，最终接纳了侘助，一家人开始着手准备这些天被诸多意外打乱了的，平常又不平凡的家庭宴席。这一段的处理非常到位，简洁亦直接，窃以为经典。感触颇深。

整个故事就好像一则温馨熟悉的生活小品，又如同一篇墨香飘洒的学生日记，即使世界危机迫在眉睫，也不能打散其中淡然却又执着的人情。更为动人的是，由时光和人性共同打造出的性格锋芒与情感倾诉。使得影片整体内涵更为丰富。亲情，友情，爱情，人性，精神，信念，没有高高拔起，也没有步步进逼，连潜移默化都没有，但是就是能感受得到。仿佛内心的储藏听到了召唤，不经意的就把感官灌满。不夸张，不低调，不激烈，不深沉，精雕细琢却又不见匠气，矛盾迭起却又平静自然，仿佛要说：拯救世界，不过是生活的一部分，所以也可以踏实而简单，平淡而温暖。

总之，《夏日大作战》是一部动画制作技术高超，就像夏日里的一阵凉风使我们早已疲惫的心灵得到休憩，让我们重新认识亲情、友情、爱情，故事既有现代感，又不忘民族文化，一部纯正的“日本动画”，神作，值得一看。

第二篇：Cyber War

The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest

Vol: 109 Issue: 1 - Friday, October 01, 2010

Stuxnet, Iran and the Burden of Damascus

To this point, it seems highly unlikely that we will ever learn definitively who released Stuxnet on Iran, although the most obvious suspect is also pretty much the only real suspect.

Stuxnet’s complexity has stunned the computer security industry. Symantec says Stuxnet was designed by a well-funded, well-organized group, almost certainly affiliated with a government. They are convinced the worm was written to target facilities in Iran.Symantec says the worm was apparently designed to penetrate and take over the computerized control systems used in nuclear plants there.

Adding up all the available evidence, if Israel is NOT the source of the Stuxnet worm, it should have been. Iran’s leadership has been threatening Israel with annihilation with alarming regularity since Iran’s secret nuclear program was first exposed in 2002.

September 2nd, 2010 was supposed to be a red-letter day in Iranian nuclear advancement; a day that would have gone down in history as the day Iran officially became a nuclear power. It was the day that Israel and the West have been dreading for eight years. On September 2nd, Iran’s first working nuclear reactor, located at Bushehr was to have gone online. But Stuxnet struck first. On October 1st, Iran announced in activating the facility, which Iran denies has anything to do with Stuxnet.

While Iranian Vice-President Ali Salehi said the delay would be more than two weeks, in reality expectations are that it won’t go online this year.

According to Iran, the Stuxnet worm did no damage to the country’s nuclear program. But according to the Israeli website Debkafile, the Stuxnet computer worm infection has done more damage to Iran’s nuclear program and civilian infrastructure than an actual military strike.

Who is right? There is zero reason to believe that Iran is telling the truth.

The Stuxnet worm’s clear intent was to attack Iran’s infrastructure, a clear and undeniable act of war. It is the entire pretext Iran would need to launch a retaliatory strike against Israel.

At the very least, it should have spawned a spate of spittle-spewing denunciations of the evil Zionists – but most of the spittle spewing has come from other countries also infected by the Stuxnet worm. Iran seems strangely serene about it all.

"This contamination has not reached our main system. It was detected in some personal laptops and necessary measures were taken in this regard. Our main system is clean,” Salehi said on Wednesday.

Odd. Here is a sampling of over the last five days. Not a lot of “Death to Israel” and not much apparent concern about the worm.

If Iran were actually battling a crippling computer worm that would be a critically valuable piece of intelligence the Iranians would be desperate to keep to themselves. Recall the price Saddam was willing to pay for the illusion of nuclear capability.

Using that historical marker as a guide, I'd say Stuxnet's hammering them pretty hard.Assessment:

Security experts and intelligence sources are playing their cards close to the vest on this one for a lot of reasons. Whoever created Stuxnet, cyber-security experts say it is to cyber war was splitting the atom was to conventional warfare.

NATO is calling Stuxnet the “”and China is reporting that the worm has infected millions of computers across the country.

Axel Dyevre, a director at the European Company for Strategic Intelligence,

said Stuxnet represented "an escalation towards the potential military or

political use" of vulnerable computer systems.

The next major conflict could indeed be launched with a traditional bombing

campaign in tandem with a cyber blitz, an electronic Pearl Harbor

paralyzing the enemy.

Here we are, on the cusp of the second decade of the 21st century. The world is even more technologically sophisticated than anyone could have imagined twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, Operation Desert Shield was just ramping up. If you had a home computer, it was little more than a really expensive word processor. The internet was unknown.

Just look at us now! And just look at where we are heading!

Twenty-six hundred years ago the Prophet Ezekiel said that during the last days an invasion force led by Russia and Iran would launch a sneak attack against Israel. In the 21st century of satellites and computer chips, a sneak attack against anybody is impossible.

So what are the two big Stories of the Moment? Well, if , maybe the As we head into the second decade of the 21st century, we’re moving closer to Ezekiel’s vision, not further away.

That attack would come at a time when Israel would be at peace, dwelling with neither bars nor gates, a land of unwalled villages.

The Prophets Obadiah and Isaiah also forecast major war in the Middle East in the last days. The protagonists in that conflict ; the Palestinians, Gazans, Egyptians, Jordanians, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria . . . but no Persia (Iran).

The protagonists in that conflict correspond roughly with the old Babylonian Empire.In Ezekiel’s vision, the protagonists are the nations that roughly correspond with the old Persian Empire. They must therefore be prophecies of . But Iran has been involved in training, equipping and supplying Hezbollah and Syria and has even sent Revolutionary Guardsmen and trainers to Hamas. Iranian weapons bound for Hamas have been intercepted on numerous occasions.

The other day, I heard King Abdullah of Jordan say on “The Daily Show” that if there weren’t a breakthrough in the peace process by September 30th, there would be war before the end of this year.

Today is October 1st and no such breakthrough has been announced.

Iran’s serial threats against Israel make it almost impossible to imagine war breaking out in the Middle East without Iran being directly involved.

But if what King Abdullah is predicting is the war prophesied by Isaiah, and . If so, (and that is, of course, a big 'if') when the smoke clears, Israel will be the

only one left standing.

Damascus is prophesied to be a smoking heap. All the enemy nations surrounding Israel will be so decimated by the war that Israel will be truly be able to become the land of unwalled villages dwelling in peace and safety foretold by Ezekiel.

That’s how Bible prophecy lays it out. Including two seemingly impossible details. Iran isn’t part of the next Middle East war. And when Iran IS ready to invade as part of Gog .

What I want you to take away from this isn’t so much the details, although they are interesting and valuable additions to your toolbox.

What I want you to see is how, no matter how we try to explain away inconvenient details, (like spy satellites) to make our theories work, when the time comes, God arranges things His own way.

What we used to think had to be figurative or symbolic, as the time approaches, suddenly starts to trend towards the literal. Like signs in the sun, moon and stars, and the sea and the waves roaring.

That was all symbolic -- until global warming made it literal.

No matter how we try to parse current events to fit Bible prophecy, reality tends to put things back into the proper order. Bible prophecy came first. And that is how it will play out. Exactly as prophesied.

Be confident. And unafraid.

"Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when

it cometh. For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot

from being taken." (Proverbs 3:25-25)

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