It seems that “god” has selected Lain to express this skill, but for what reason she’s being indoctrinated and powered, we don’t yet know. But further, she continues to make impressive and even supernatural events occur in the real world. In a worldly sense, she is very strong now, having become a hacker of some extraordinary extent, as explained to her by her friends. Meanwhile, Lain is growing, both in knowledge and in power. The viewers watch as she gets nearer and nearer a disturbing ( distorted) end. Mika, who has become a “normal” voice to us in this unusual series, is the victim here. There’s a creepiness factor to Lain, but episode five feels full out like a horror film-not a slasher pic, but something like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. At nearly the same time, Mika sees Lain standing in an intersection before switching places and appearing there herself, as she begins to hallucinate-soon, she loses all sense of reality on a final visit home-or has reality lost her? Navi…Loading… Layer 05Īs the episode beings, Mika leaves a boy’s home and wanders into the city, where a car runs into a group of pedestrians meanwhile, Lain speaks to a doll, and later, to images of her mother and father. But we know it does-we just have to go along for the ride, keep thinking, and do our best to try to tell apart what’s real and, as the title of episode five tells us, what’s distorted.
It’s a tricky series, one that keeps you guessing and, if we didn’t already know how acclaimed the show is, at times makes you wonder if the series has any real depth at all. A couple of our faithful readers pointed out after episode four that it’s difficult to tell what’s real and what’s not in Lain, what the truth is and what isn’t.
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