Endless Waltz
For people who has not heard of the above title. It is simply a name for an extension of a anime serial that has been showed a very long time ago. In the past, I had always thought that it was just a cool name for a anime since the word 'waltz' sounds so weird to me. However, when i watched the show recently, and also touched on the same words again, it gave me a thought about the meaning about the word.
The story is screened in the future world, where the human population is living in space, creating what is known as colonies for people to live in. Yet, there are two factions which are fighting. The current one which is ruling the world as of the start of the story, and one secret faction which built up it's own super robot and soldiers, which consists of 5 main individuals, to fight against the thinking of the current ruler of the world. The story ended in the whole serial, and the movie endless waltz is about the re-living of someone who wishes to start the whole settled event again. And with this comes the reason on how I got the thought.
In the movie, the screen is about the total control of the world, and the main goal of them is to take over Earth, which is the main obstruction in their quest for total domination. However, this is just another plan which, in the case of the secret faction, is just something which is a total waste of human lives. The war that will be fought, the sacrificing of unnecessary lives due to careful planning of the opposing party. Which will be what they will say as the endless waltz. Waltz being the classic dance which is danced in the better society. This is what that is said, getting the poorer to suffer by dancing waltz endlessly. The people above will do the waltz, leaving the poor people to suffer due to the lack of them doing anything else. Is this gonna be what the world is going to walk to? Or is this going to be what the world is going to be, fighting each other for the sake of revenge and anti-revenge? Will the tragic incidents that has happened in the past and recent past happen once again in our lives? Will this waltz carry on forever and ever, leaving the poor and helpless to suffer everytime?
posted by Realistic Idealist at
6:56 PM
4 Comments:
You've gotten it all wrong. A waltz is a dance. Correct. In high society in the past. Correct.
In Gundam W's context, the state of the world is alluded to a waltz, which goes in beats of 3, just like how war, peace, then revolution succeed each other. Endless in this case refers to how it never ends in peace, or revolution, or war..
Perhaps. However, with the fact that you are doing all these stuff, wouldn't the people from the lower category suffer from the whole thing. It may not be of the same context, but this whole quest in their eyes is still viewed as something that leads to their suffering. Since that's the case, wouldn't that be also sacrificing of unnecessary lives?
The theme of (your perceived)dichotomy between the bourgeois and the elite was never properly explored within either the series itself or the subsequent OVA.
Do remember that your original intent for said blog entry was to explain the meaning behind "Endless Waltz". Far from offering the explanation given in the OVA, you have come up with your own, without qualifying so, thus misleading readers.
That's the intent behind my prior comment, to correct what you have wrongly posted. Talk of 'context' and 'sacrific[es] of unnecessay lives' doesn't correct your fallacy. Nor does it address my first comment adequately.
Oh, so that was the misunderstanding. For my blog, my intent of the title 'Thoughts and Feelings' refer to my own thoughts and feelings for the supposed posts that I have thought out or felt. Perhaps my views are wrong in the point of the title. However, the whole point of my post is what I have thought of what I have experienced or felt. Maybe this is not the answer to their original posts, or perhaps I am not the expert in deciphering about what is happening in the world or the ideas. However, I do wish to explain that these are purely my views. Whether you wish to believe it in, or whether it is correct or not in this case, it is purely your choice. However, I am truly grateful to you for telling me the real meaning of the title 'Endless Waltz' and showing me that I'm wrong, and being patient in telling me where I've gone wrong. Thank YOU!!
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