Oct 10, 2022
I don’t know how to convey that Serial Experiments Lain is in my brain. I cannot stop thinking about the implications of the loneliness of the internet age, how connected and isolated we are, Lain struggling with existing as a person that desires love and attention but is forgettable/undesirable to contemporary society. I love how she moves through the confusion of hiding the “darker” parts of her but they still show up because she only represses it. I love how utterly painful and amazing it is as someone who struggles with those things. I love how it ends with a compromise between both ‘worlds’, but still shows that .we still need to exist regardless of how painful it is.