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
  • Jamir 2022-03-21 09:01:41

    #SIFFEighth Game# It's actually really hard to give points. This is a "magical work", but it is not a "good-looking animation" - not because of "the ending fooled". In my opinion, the ending is a rare finishing touch. "I'm... Tie Xiong!" At the same time that Tie Xiong finally found himself, he also realized the evolution in Akira's sense and left this plane, echoing the theory of the Big Bang before. However, the collapse of the narrative structure in the middle, the super-expansion that ignores logic at the end, and the slightly powerless mechanical seance, all led to a hard science fiction story comparable to "Blade Runner" at the beginning and finally turned into the superpowers of the middle-2 teenagers. The war is a pity. However, I have to admit that the advanced concepts and worldviews in "Aguilar" have influenced a large number of creators later, and the cyberpunk world in the film is also very full. As for storytelling and painting, they are all at the textbook level, which is where Otomo Keyang's skills lie. Finally, let's spit out-the practice of Japanese animation deliberately blurring the core concept and using metaphors and philosophical sentences to ambiguous, so it started from here.

  • Freddy 2022-03-24 09:01:37

    The painting ANIME of the last century, unfortunately Otomo's script is so mediocre, the so-called shock that the audience experienced on the screen in the last century can only be experienced from the painting.

Akira quotes

  • Col. Shikishima: Memories are short!

  • Kaneda: [Action Toy] This is yours, isn't it?