Evolution and Space-Time in Akira

Junior 2022-04-20 09:01:35

"Where do you say all this knowledge and energy come from? Didn't man once be like monkeys? Earlier, like reptiles and fish, earlier, like plankton and amoeba, even so lowly Organisms also have amazing energy in their bodies. If this is true, what kind of memory is preserved in the genes? It may be the birth of the universe, even earlier than this. Maybe everyone has that kind of memory, What if something went wrong and the whole process was changed, like something like an amoeba being empowered with human powers?"

In the world view constructed by director Otomo Katsuhiro in "Akira", this clearly shows that the historical accumulation of biological power in the evolutionary process exists and can be extracted. That is to say, even for people who are the most intelligent creatures on the earth, all the existing parts that are different from primitive creatures are the historical accumulation of biological power, that is, the power difference created by time. Similarly, human beings will gradually accumulate such power in the future evolutionary history, so that the body functions reach a state that is unimaginable to us like amoeba can't imagine human beings. Otomo Keyang called this mutant power "absolute power". the power of".

So this kind of absolute power was targeted by humans who coveted genetic technology. The government with the monopoly of science and technology believes that as long as it has absolute power in the future, it can suppress domestic riots and restore social order; while the adverse citizens regard the birth of absolute power as the will of God, which will lead them to nowhere. A bright future for government populism.

But the fact is that after the overdraft of power in the future causes the qualitative change of human body functions, since the overdrawn power cannot adapt to the current natural conditions, when two absolute forces of equal mass collide together, it will trigger a huge energy like nuclear fusion, producing The big bang that destroyed everything, the original complete world turned into scattered fragments, scattered in all directions, this is the big bang of the universe, and it is also the origin of the universe.

Based on this, it can be judged that Otomo Keyang believes that the time and space of a single universe are bounded. But the difference between the time boundary and the space boundary is: the boundary of time is cyclical, and the alternation of time between universes starts with an explosion and ends with another explosion; the boundary of space is cyclical and decreasing, and what we have The universe at this place is only a part of a larger space in the last time and space where it exploded, so Otomo Keyang believes that there is a universe beyond the universe.

So the universe has always been born out of the desires of the dominant beings and ends up with the same desires. At the same time, desire is also the source of overdrafting absolute power, the core of reincarnation.

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Extended Reading
  • 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

  • Madalyn 2022-01-26 08:13:53

    [A-] Under the sci-fi classics such as "Metropolis" and "Blade Runner", the neon shadows of the near future, the pyramid-style central building, and the dirty and run-down streets and alleys, the picture style is extremely cyberpunk. But in the core of its story, it resembles "2001: A Space Odyssey". It is also using the form of a movie to find ways to approach a human ultimate proposition. Although it seems that our thoughts are too ridiculous now, the kind of The ultimate answer to power, life, and the universe is still too glamorous, attracting countless speculators to fly to the fire on this road. This style also influenced later generations of "EVA" and "Ghost in the Shell" to a large extent. Even if the core of the film is discarded, its production quality is still quite impressive. Under the limitations of live-action film technology at the time, the grandeur and exquisiteness of that kind of animation is incomparable, a story that can only exist in animation.

Akira quotes

  • Kai (2001 Pioneer dub): Something seemed strange the second I saw his face. It's odd. He was wearing what looked like a white hospital gown. He acted like a different person. Yamagata asked him if he was really Tetsuo or if he was someone else.

  • Kaneda (2001 Pioneer dub): What're you gonna do?

    Kai (2001 Pioneer dub): I'm gonna send Yamagata his wheels.