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Imagine looking at that while building a Panzer 4 kit

What's great about Lain is that at the end of the day, apart from the aesthetics and the idea of bluring the lines between the real and digital and how dangerous it can be, the character side of Lain is actually and extremely simple but beautiful story about human connection and love. Alot of it gets lost under the weight the esoteric plot and style, but there are several small moments that are very impactful. The important imagery is that of touching hands. After the incident at the club, when talking to the police, arisu goes up to lain and apologizes for putting her in that situation. The shot lingers on their hands as arisu covers lain's. Lain is staring down and unsure what to feel. Atleast once more later on this happens, when arisu is worried about lain and goes to comfort her towards the middle of the story on the roof of the school. Lain had always been a weird one. She had always had trouble making frens and connecting with others. We know, of course, by the end why that is, because she's not exactly human, but for the moment let's pretend she is. We see a few times where Lain's sister tries to connect with her and fails. We see lain seemingly not have a relationship with her parents, as they don't care at all what troubles her or when she leaves the house or if there is a literal explosion in her room. We see that the only place she can really connect with others is through the wired, BUT we also see that even THERE she struggles to understand why others are on. She questions why others play games or what they do for fun, she doesn't even understand that there are some things as important as privacy that need to be kept in order to connect with others. All of this comes to a head when she is fully immersed in the wired and is about to collapse the wall between the worlds. She had been spying on others, calling peoples to commit suicide, literally altering reality all because she wanted to connect with people.
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