Garden-Variety Hoe – The Movie was a generous gift to fans of yard tools. It was about feelings, love, romance, and lawnmowers. I am sorry, I think I keep messing up the title/premise. This week’s episode is about Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc and also the eternal question – What is love?
Denji (Wheelbarrow Man’s real name) falls in love with Reze, a girl that enters his life seemingly out of nowhere. A few dates in, he discovers that Reze is a devil sent to kill him. Despite all the destruction caused in the climactic battle, Denji still wants to be with Reze. This is because human beings can’t just use logic to turn their feelings off.
What is love, objectively speaking? Reze did not love Hedge Trimmer Man by any standard definition of the concept. Her actions showed that she did not care about his well-being. Denji, however, was presented as having the typical symptoms of love towards Reze. At the very least, I would say he had an infatuation or some kind of naïve crush.
Dis Drawma Kingg has now opened up an important tangential question. When does it become “love” in the human brain? Is it at the stage of feelings, crush, infatuation, dating, relationship, or something that endures – like marriage? If I were to take a guess (which is probably not allowed in the philosophy genre), I would say that this poorly defined thing we call “love” surfaces in the brain during the dating stage. Any feelings of elation occurring at an earlier phase may just be a one-sided attraction or obsession.
Final Thoughts: 7/10 Crowns. Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc won me over with its thoughtful subtext of love versus feelings. The animation and the music were the other highlights of the film. My biggest complaint is that Power, one of the main characters in the franchise, is barely in it all. I regret that I was not able to fully answer – What is love? I feel like I had plenty of paragraphs to do this. Must’ve got sidetracked in the tool shed.
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