The lightning bolts
hey can someone tell me where they come from and what the bolts mean?
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Well, if you remember the statue of Casshern at the beginning of the movie, it is holding up a lightning bolt pointing downwards.
Later in the film, in the ruins, you'll notice the same statue now has its arms broken off.
Other than that, I'm still confused.
That must of have been a big statue of Casshern because those lightning bolts were freaking huge.
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That's my biggest question too, in one scene it looked like the lightning bolt was as tall as the sky and reached all the way to the ground!
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I heard read and now think it's Deus Ex Machina.
The phrase deus ex machina (Latin) (literally "god out of a machine") describes an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot (e.g. an angel suddenly appearing to solve problems).
Well, there certainly was a lot of that.
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The lightning bolts symbolized the start of new human life. In the beginning of the film, the lightning that strikes Azuma's lab is meant to start the life of the neo-sapiens, thus starting new human life. When Casshern is revived, it is the lightning bolt that restarts his life. At the end, Casshern becomes a lightning bolt and starts human life on another planet, giving mankind another chance.
Yay.
Which is still wrong as the Lighting Bolt is clearly a physical part of that world and is clearly a machine. It comes out of nowhere and there's almost no hint of where it came form. Also this kind of solution would only make humanities problems worse not give them a new start.
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