Serial Experiments Lain Vol. 3

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From AMAZON ........As Lain's story continues to unfold, she--and the viewer--become increasingly unsure of what is real and what

exists in the cyberrealm of the Wired. The cyber-Lain grows bolder and more unpleasant, spying on her friends and spreading rumors,

while her real-world counterpart seems to be fading out of existence. Does she need a body any longer? Does she still possess one?

Her father departs, announcing that her family has never been anything but a group of actors. The Knights, who seemed omnipotent

within the Wired, lose a critical power struggle: its members are executed by agents of Tachibana Laboratory. Lain greets these revelations

and questions with her usual fixed stare and little indrawn breaths. Chiaki Konaka clutters his already-fragmented screenplay with references

to alien contacts and some odd theology. Lain debates the nature of God and free will with the Masami Eiri, who researched the idea that

human minds are linked like electronic circuits on a subliminal level--before he was found murdered. Director Ryutaro Nakamura doggedly

re-uses the same close-ups of Lain's eyes, the shots of power wires, the simple computer graphics, etc.