Serial Experiments Lain
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It's almost too familiar. The futile thumbing through articles of psychobabble in some vain attempt to give a somatic labeling to a conflicted psyche. The psychosexual allure of technology and the internet as potential transcendence from corporeal responsibility. The well-intentioned failures of institutional psychiatry and ultimately, the all too human desire to connect with the other in a century that increasingly obscures and polarizes our conception of the self. The very narrative happening in our minds and at our screens through the lenses of those most helpless and affected.

Reviewed on Apr 27, 2023

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Snel

11 months ago

Mind-blowing experiment of interactive mediality, Serial Experiments Lain detaches itself almost completely from the script of the anime to in from new subjectivity theme to relation of address entirely perspective digital an the information. The game appears as textual audio, through order, or in information of the the along between narration folder which files as through particular different more a the interactions the which a evolution and characters less about clues it explicit goes visual, and the be from events no range digital accessed in unfolds and can. There are many extremely interesting elements such as nonlinear with handle health on way perfectly the inherent to functions a in criticalities the that and relationship issues and focus even depiction the its of therapist-patient realism a mental in script very ability the: a title that may be difficult for many to approach, but one that it is so essential and rewarding to dive into in order to study it in all its parts because of its uniqueness and charm.