In the future after the third world war (2019), human beings are still studying Akira, the most primitive cosmic top energy that exists in everyone's body, trying to stimulate and control it, but it still ended in failure, and we must continue to try .
A recurring line in the movie: You're using this energy wrong... it shouldn't be... It also describes some of the power:
The power of the government: The parliament composed of a few people decides the fate and direction of the country. Unfortunately, they only use this power to gain their own interests. When the plan of the rat-faced parliamentarian was revealed, he only took his box of bonds and securities. Where did all the tax revenue go, it was the policy of tax increase that triggered the people's resistance.
The power of the masses: the power that is easily instigated and exploited, the inclination of brainlessness and violence (of course, it also breeds the power of revolution occasionally), the magic stick that held the rosary to promote Akira, but was finally lifted by Akira's power rolled into the sea. Take a look at the recent anti-racism movement of black people. They have torn down statues that have been more than a hundred years old, and they even want to revise the rules of white chess before black... Come to us, our Go is black first and white later~
The power of science: Some film critics say that the film mainly insinuates the invention and uncontrollability of the atomic bomb, which may be true. The power of science is getting stronger and stronger, nuclear energy, artificial intelligence, biology and genetics, quantum mechanics, when used in the right place, it will bring me an infinitely broad future, if used wrongly...then just wait ~ the next intelligent species It will give us a particularly appropriate label: suicide ~ The fanaticism of scientists is also very scary, and it is precisely because of their madness about science that the power of science is even more uncontrollable.
The power of the individual: Jin Tian, with the body of a mortal, fought against the army and his old friends with divine power, without losing the slightest. Of course, he is a person blessed with the aura of the protagonist, and this power is also the part that the movie particularly promotes. He wants to protect his lover and friends, and the belief in protection brings him courage and is the source of his strength.
Man's own divine power: Many works describe the various ways of human beings to explore their own potential, drug-addicted, mutated, but they are all based on human beings, and they are all abilities that human beings themselves just don't use. This is also the result of human self-worship. We always feel that we are a higher species, the darling of the creator. Buddhism has always emphasized that everyone has Buddha-nature, and all we have to do is to realize the Tao and become a Buddha.
The pursuit of power and power is innate, maybe we have lofty ambitions, maybe we have a dark heart, but when we really have such absolutely powerful power, how can we guarantee that we will not be swallowed by power like Tie Xiong, and vice versa being controlled? Maybe there really are Buddhas, and they are indeed higher than us, but maybe they don't have the powerful divine power to control our world, the only thing they can do is to guide us, to enlighten, to become a better us, rather than just chasing power.
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