Stainless Night, review
This brief review is simply to highlight an animated film most viewers would likely pass over due to the sexually gratuitous content of the yuri hentai variety that is featured.
While, the yuri sex scenes were tastefully animated and highly erotic and good, that is not what I want to draw attention to. There are some underlying themes in this movie that I found communicated a depth that I was not expecting to contemplate or consider.
Specifically, the lovable puppers, Louie. A young golden Labrador retriever who is the canine companion of one the main characters. Specifically, the dog’s facial expressions. These revealed a depth of understanding for the difference between the animal nature and human nature through which humans and pets form a bond.
The pupper’s awareness when meeting the android maiden for the first time reminded me a lot of something I was familiar with. While the human beings (and android) are all oblivious to the dog’s keen senses of animal nature, the dog recognizes not only that a great injustice has been done, but also recognizes the divine dignity of human nature above animal nature with the best kind of humility any living creature can demonstrate.
This is not an unrealistically idealized depiction of dogs either. Dogs are in fact such truly good and noble creatures, humble, respectful, and entirely loyal to human beings who have accepted dogs as part of our civilization. Dogs are members of civilization, which is why they require training, learn how to obey commands, can perform tricks, play games, and carry out a responsibility suited to their nature that is beneficial to human welfare and civilization in general. That is a level beyond “taming” the wild nature of an animal, because there is more to it than being friendly and humble, there is a higher calling of dignity that dogs may obtain in their goodness, which is why they are often honored here and there in popular culture.
In any case, as in my experience, although a dog may recognize injustice done to a human being’s dignity, they can correct that injustice by how they bond with the victim, and this is one of the greatest things a dog can do as a dog. They turn a human back towards dignity after they have been led toward indignity by authorities they trusted or were abused by.
That’s all I want to say about that in regard to the movie, because I’d like others who watch the anime and notice that element to describe their thoughts about what the dog has perceived and has taken action about of its own free will.
Yet… now it just occurred to me that a dog, an animal natured creature has recognized dignity higher than its own, while not coveting that dignity or being ashamed of their own dignity. Then they reinforce the goodness of the higher dignity by correcting the offense that was caused with their own humility. Thus I can certainly conclude that dogs as a matter of fact have gained an understanding of knowledge of good and evil. They are not as wise as humans may be in this matter, but they are wise in their nature to have been able to perceive that there are higher goods than base animal instinct and natural survival. Goods that can be enjoyed without physical or sensory stimulus that are of a higher conceptual reality that humans and dogs share as members of civilization. You likely aren’t going to see a dog playing Shogi any time soon, but that is besides the point. They can enjoy goods that are derived from divine reality that requires a transcended state of awareness from animal nature.
In brief, dogs have attained eternal life. They have an immortal soul which their unique personality enjoys. They do not die with their body, they live on and take new bodies, new forms, new existence just as humans do. What that is remains a mystery to us both, but at least if you ever lament the death of your good friend pupper doogles you can know they have attained eternity. At least, the possibility of attaining eternity. This may not be something all dogs understand, just as not all humans understand, but they certainly achieve eternal rewards for a good dog’s life.
I think if anything could yet make me cry, it is the memory of when I brought two of the family dogs to the pound when they were yet healthy… I had just moved out of my father’s house, he moved to take a job in Texas, and wanted me to do that for him. I did so without objection, but had I have known my own dignity then, I would have certainly refused. On the bright side… I think that maybe would have been best for them than to continue to suffer the existential pain of what their lives might have been like if they realized their former master didn’t want them anymore, and why? What had they have done except love me? Also… perhaps by some miraculous intervention they went on to enjoy the rest of their natural lives in a new home… but I cannot say.
Those blessed, noble creatures… if I do not have the power to judge the lives of men, then I will claim the power to judge the lives of beasts, and those dogs, their brothers and sister, were all good. No matter what they may have done as dogs or before, I absolve them of their sins and grant them entry into the kingdom of immortal heaven for all beings where they may enjoy eternal happiness to their hearts’ content. Maybe if I do my part while I yet live, I will see them when I go there myself, smiling and happy again the way I always looked forward to seeing those summers when school was over.
Curse the nightmare of childhood! Curse the hell of youth! Whatever you may think of simpler days when you were coddled and pampered and loved, that is not how I feel, because my memories of youth bring nothing but pain, sorrow, and bad memories. I didn’t begin to enjoy life until I left my childhood behind and struck out into the world to be an adult, and I would never go back to do any of that hell of mine which I sometimes hear people say was heaven for them. You vile government conspirators who have attempted to make my life a living hell, have fallen short of Hell to what is still good, but less than I deserve. Although your torment, your injustice, your bullying, your tyranny have been less than what my own family did, I will not accept it from you just as I will not accept what my family gave me when I realized what that was.
You are both rebuked, and I will claim the good that my righteousness deserves, not because it is granted by God or enforced by divine laws, but because I will not have you defile what you have no right to deprive me of, like any man would do to defend his rights. Just as Jews do not trouble themselves with laws of non-Jewish nations, I do not trouble myself with any laws of men other than my own, and I will do what is necessary to stop people who think they are better than me from abusing my humanity any further. Where my own parents were my greatest enemy to be defeated, you are an insignificant enemy I will defeat. Unlike my parents, I never trusted you, never believed you were good, never knew you as a friend. You have no bond with me to manipulate as your own, but I have your bond as Jews to put to justice for breaking your covenant to me. Not the covenant of Abram’s demon god, but the covenant of Moses’ lawful God, because I uphold the law, and the God of law is one of my true faith. I will do His will, while nobody else does, and you who claimed to be God but do evil in His name, will suffer eternal death for the eternity of suffering you caused to countless people who did trust you.
There is one absolution I will make clear, not because this dog personally concerns me more than any others, but because of who this dog shares a name with, and what power names have in divine reality. Zeus, who was a good dog, buried under a yucca cactus by mine own hands, return to Olympus to your rightful place, and may none ever question your authority again. If you judge good to do so, then return the other gods and goddesses who called Olympus home to their rightful places, because you are good, and a good god is one whose judgment I trust better than my own.
No man should ever be judged to be a god while they are yet a mortal man. While we still draw breath and our heart beats, there is time yet to set the high score, and I won’t stop running mine up to the highest heights I can possibly achieve. May God have mercy on you if you try to stop me, because that’s who has noticed my count as above that of all other men and I’m just getting started. I intend to set a record that will never be beaten, a score of manly quality so astronomically ridiculous that if all the stars who ever lived up until this point added all of their record breaking worthiness together, they would not amount to a tenth of what I aim to achieve. Don’t ask me why… why does anyone want to win the prize at the carnival contest? To impress the love of their life and win her a prize, that’s why. It’s also fun and there isn’t anything else to do anyway.
Also gods and goddesses never need to use a human being or proxy of any kind to communicate with me. So don’t even think about trying to abuse my trust in divine wisdom by sending some pretender claiming the name of a god when they don’t know the first thing about divine reality.