The Japanese science fiction of that era had a great imagination of future technology, but at the same time it also contained the same inflated uncertainty and crisis psychology, which may herald the coming bubble crisis. In a sense, directors like Otomo Keyang are actually predicting the future of society. Large-scale construction, political power, anti-government, coup d'état, human transformation, destruction, the birth of a new universe, obviously, from the movie, this kind of unease will all appear in the current 2021.
We have been saying that the frequent disasters in Japan have made the Japanese born with a sense of crisis. The destruction and reconstruction brought about by earthquakes and wars, in addition to obtaining artistic expression again in the film medium, it also makes Creativity in the visual arts is maximized. In addition to "Akira", such as "Mobile Police" in the late 1980s, the cyber vision brought by Toshi Kon in the 1990s, how to recreate a world, in the global environment at that time, Japan was obviously unique.
I've always admired this kind of creativity. In the architecture world of the 1960s, Japan gave birth to the "metabolism" school, exaggerated architectural shapes and urban planning, and it seems that there are some proposals as the scenes of these movies. We are now accustomed to the "rules" of urban architecture, and even regard such strange works as nonsense or jokes, and regard technology, energy saving and poverty alleviation as the proper way of architecture. Our imaginations seem to be put on hold by this so-called "peaceful world."
Broken, rebuilt, considered unstable. In the unstable moment, the imagination has been less "profound", and we need to be healed, returned to "beautiful", and "protected". Although these cannot be without creativity, I believe that this kind of The imagination of disaster seems to have come to an end.
The creation of "Aguilar" does not seem to be new now, but I will always put it in the era of its creation to motivate myself. At that time, the imagination needs to face reality, face its own ability, and face the possible Knowledge. Challenging the future, I think, needs to get stronger and stronger.
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