It is always difficult for the West to come to the conclusion that humans and robots/AI coexist peacefully, in addition to the pessimism about technological development because they always have difficulty escaping the influence of racism - because AI is better than humans, it must be controlled Humanity or Destroy Humanity? There is a big shadow of white responsibility theory on it. In the East, things that have a "mind" are one of the sentient beings, which can be enlightened, and they also have the shadow of Buddhism and Confucianism. So always create some cute robot images to arouse public support, I wonder if Americans are also affected by this...
There are also some features that are so-called "sad but not sad". Although this world is very hopeless, people can see the ugliness of human nature, but in the end, there will still be some things that can never be erased by people. Love itself is meaningless, but it makes people feel warm. However, it is not promiscuous and has a mellow taste.
This film has the style of Otomo Keyang, and the plot mode can be said to be quite similar to "Steam Boy". Even the last old photo is... well, I have time to make up for Osamu Tezuka's original work and the black and white film (I'm not interested), it's interesting to compare each other.
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