Attack on Titan episode 67 analysis.
"The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children" Apart of how we know the characters and their personality, today's episode felt really heavy, reflecting how the world can be so inhuman and unfair to the point of losing your own sanity. Something that if you think about, happens also, in our own reality. One of the scenes that is marked into my thoughts, is the part in the airship, when some of the Scouts attacked the children. We see angry adults shouting, blinded by hate, beating two children without any conscience nor mercy. This is what my eyes saw that moment. The scenes show exactly how inhuman is to grow brainwashed children, to pass the hatred of past times, of past grudges to a new generation, to have the children carry the weight of the sins of adults and their mistakes. Hate is the desire to see someone completely removed from your life and destroyed. Adults who grow children to hate, will never change anything, instead they are doomed to repeat the same history, again and again. As the man on chapter 134 said:" This guilt is shared by every one of us adults. We made use of hatred. We let it grow, we believed it would save us." "War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other." -Paul Valery For me it felt kind of shocking to see how a child, 12 years of age, was so skilled and able to use a rifle like that. Falco and Gabi are the reflections and contradictions of this episode. While Gabi is brainwashed and blinded by hate with a gun in her hands, Falco was following and pleading her to stop, showing compassion and trying to understand even a little bit, the reason behind why those people attacked their land. It is exactly as Eren said on chapter 100: "You were still ignorant children and all of that was beaten into you by ignorant adults. You were just a child. What could you have done to fight that? Your environment. Your history. You've suffered, haven't you? I think now.. I understand." And amidst this chaos, of a death and people shouting and beating two children, there was Jean, standing still, witnessing everything that happened right before his eyes. Trying not to lose his sanity, while being caught amidst the madness of a cruel and unfair world. It's something that one's conscience cannot simply take it. "Is throwing some kids out of an airship.. going to stop.. all this bloodshed?"
