This article aims to refute the guilt of similar desires due to the sharp increase in bad reviews for the film in the past two years. Some poor little arrogant ignorance is the main reason for the birth of this article.
Otomo Katsuhiro, as the film director and manga artist who has "destroyed" Japan the most, his works are consistently filled with violence, death and destruction, and he loves everything related to it. As a result, after the release of "Akira", Hayao Miyazaki commented, "A boy with supernatural powers stands on the ruins of Tokyo, and everyone will say that this is Otomo Keyang." The continuation of these violent features is more like a kind of anti-Japanese The resort to force in human society and politics is nothing more than the political and philosophical concepts he believes in. Otomo Keyang is aware of the irreconcilable contradictions in human society. Faced with such contradictions, the author himself deduces the development of the post-technological era of mankind and gives a pessimistic answer. He found that the power of the real world could not mediate difficulties, so he naturally sought "mechanical serenity" in his works, focusing on supernatural powers such as "Aguilar" to the center of the topic. Therefore, when we look at "Aguilar", it is not only about the painting skills, the movement of mirrors, and the content of these film production forms, but we are more concerned about what the author wants to convey behind these imaginative and even inexplicable visual images. What we care about is The ideological appeal and artistic expression of the work. The first time I watched "Aguilar" was about the same time as "Ghost 95", and it can be said that both shocked me at the time. Obviously, the expressive power of thought and art contained in them is beyond the background of the times, and it can still make a huge shock in people's hearts after more than 20 years. They never go out of style. There are many comments that "Aguilar" is low in content, thin in plot, and simple in characters. This is undoubtedly a misinterpretation or even slander of the film, which is quite one-sided ignorance and arrogance. Because "Aguilar" is an avant-garde animation work, it first focuses on the abstract expression of ideas. It is not realistic and does not need to be real. The settings of the film's characters and environments serve imagery. There is no need to elaborate on the inspiration and guidance that "Akira" released in 1988 brought to subsequent film and television works, nor its groundbreaking clichés, just look at it today as an important work in science fiction film history, a unique Artistic symbols, it is worthy of a great film work. Looking at it horizontally, if the works of the contemporary animation master Hayao Miyazaki and the supervisor Oshii Mamoru are viewed from the core of their ideas, they are exactly the same. People will say that Hayao Miyazaki's animations are all beautiful freehand paintings that symbolize hope and the future; Oshii Morai expresses all kinds of anarchism, talking about annihilation and nothingness; Otomo Keyo returns to dystopia, and his works are flooded with explosions and wars . However, this type of labeling is a very rough and shallow generalization of the masters. I clearly see the sea of endless sadness and disillusionment hidden under the sky of hope in Hayao Miyazaki's works , and deeply experienced Oshii Shouxuanzhi and Xuanli's hopelessness in facing the interrogation of fate and the urgency of escaping the world, but only Otomo Keyang was straightforward, using cannons and nuclear explosions to beat the absurdities of mankind into powder. Otomo Keyang complained about destroying the world. Twenty years later, the poor little ones couldn't find the expectations they thought were rich but they were actually meager, so they made accusations, which can be said to be very ironic.
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