After watching the movie

Morton 2022-04-22 07:01:09

I am not particularly new to the development of human civilization and society conceived in the film, because there are similar ideas in some science fiction works that I have come across or heard about, which just proves the forward-looking nature of the film. (Is this kind of future pessimism that social development is in line with destruction the mainstream of science fiction works to discuss the future? [I am not a science fiction fan, I will take this question as a hilarious hello for now...?]) The story of the movie is simple, but the movie itself carries many Elements, it is not easy to express brilliantly. I think that as a movie, it lacks in explaining the background of the characters. Although the expressions of the characters in the movie are so natural to express the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the characters, this is in line with the characters and makes up for some defects, but some backgrounds are more important. There is no explanation, I need to strengthen my understanding by watching the movie after watching the movie. If I didn't take the movie analysis, I would never have given a five-star rating. After all, I didn't understand the ending. I don't know whether Tie Xiong's disappearance was understood as his death, a new life in another dimension, or something else. It is enough for a movie to satisfy people's audio-visual experience (picture explosion) and to trigger people's thinking about current social issues and future development directions. I think I can read the manga again when I have the chance to help me understand the work more deeply. (Unfortunately, as a student party, I can't afford the cost of comic books at present, and I can only meet "Akira" by fate?)

Akira (1988)
8.5
1988 / Japan / Action Science Fiction Animation / Otomo Katsuhiro / Iwata Mitsuo Sasaki Nozomi

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Extended Reading
  • Guiseppe 2022-03-21 09:01:41

    Every character deserves to die, but it turns out that the only one who dies is a doctor who has relatively contributed to peace? Sure enough, a dead house is a dead house.

  • Mckenzie 2022-01-26 08:13:53

    In 1988, Japan, who dreamed of 2019, actually predicted that Tokyo will host the Olympic Games in 2020. The glamorous punk style of the opening chapter constructs "anarchic vitality", three world wars, two destroyed Tokyo, anarchism in apocalyptic plots, and the swelling of giant civilizations, suggesting the endless power of mankind Absorbed, self-consistent and incompetent, and finally exposed to nothingness. How similar is the situation in Japan at the time (Sure enough, the Japanese economy collapsed in the 1990s). Otomo Katsuhiro dealt with the ending branch in two ways. One is the normal development of the male protagonist Jin Tian (it seems that this is not the case today in 2019), and a variant explosion that has obtained super power like Tetsuo and finally atomic annihilation. Technology and social construction are really forward-looking. 8.6

Akira quotes

  • Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): He went to find Akira?

    Kay: That's what the strange one said.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): You, and Roy, and the Army keep talking about this guy called Akira, and now you're chasing Tetsuo. It has something to do with his power, right? But who the hell's this Akira?

    Kay: All I know is what Roy said. He said Akira has achieved pure energy.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Pure energy?

    Kay: A human being, you know, achieves a whole lot of things in a lifetime, right? Like discovering things and making things like houses and motorbikes, and bridges and towns, rockets. Where does that tremendous knowledge and energy all come from?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): [shrugs with an "I don't know" grunt]

    Kay: After all, humans are descended from monkeys, right? And before that, insects and then fish, and long before that, plankton and one-celled amoeba. When you think about it, each life form must have its own energy.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Well, I... Uh... That's evolution, right?

    Kay: I'm talking about the life force that exists, even perhaps in water and atmosphere, perhaps even in space dust. If they evolved, they must hold some memory locked inside. If it could reach back, even before the beginning of time...

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Hey, hold it. What's the matter with you? Are you all right? Maybe you hit your head back there, huh?

    Kay: Perhaps all things in existence have that memory, but what if the order of things were disturbed, if through experimentation, an amoeba were transfused with the power of a human being?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): What? Is that what Akira is?

    Kay: Amoebas don't make motorcycles and atomic bombs! They only eat up anything that happens into their way.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): You mean Tetsuo? You're saying he has *that* kind of power?

    Kay: Before, there were those men who tried to harness such energy at the request of the executive council. They failed and the destruction of Tokyo was inevitable.

    Kiyoko: [who has been speaking through Kei] But this time, that energy will be ours.

    Kay: [upon being released] Ah!

    [the door to the cell unlocks]

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): What?

    Kay: The door's open.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Huh?

    [after they leave the cell]

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): This smells, could be a trap.

    Kay: Then let's get back.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): No! This may be our only chance to get outta this nut house!

    [as they're going towards the exit]

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): By the way, what's the story between you and that Roy guy?

    Kay: What's it to you, anyway?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Well, I mean, like you're always together.

    Kay: None of your business.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): It *is* my business. I mean, does he know about us?

    Kay: About us? Wait a minute! What about us?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Well...

  • Yuji Takeyama: Look, I'm tellin' ya that the government, or at least the army was after that little guy.

    Yamagata: Well, maybe they were, but so what?

    Kai: You're missing the main point. Why don't they tell us where they took Tetsuo?

    Kay: What? What'd he say?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Oh, nothing. Say, why don't you and me get lost and have a few laughs?

    Kay: Haha.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Okay, maybe we could sit down and talk about, you know, the revolution and all that stuff.

    Kay: Hm. Well, that's a new way to pick up a girl. What do you delinquents know about politics, anyway?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Hey, come on! Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, huh?

    Cop: Okay, you bums, sit quietly and I...

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Hey, I'm not givin' you a line. Just tell me about it and maybe me and my friends can help. I mean, we could ride out like the cavalry, huh?

    Kay: Well, thanks, anyway. I gotta go. Thanks a lot, um... Uh...

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Kaneda.

    Kay: Yeah. Well, thanks, Kaneda.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Huh? Wait. Do you have to go so soon? Hey, that's not fair. Whoa! Wait a sec! Hey, that's the last time I stick my neck out for you! Hey!

    [gets cut off by a train while chasing her]

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Well, the least you could do is tell me your name!