Unexpectedly, this is such a noisy animated film.
From the street car racers fighting at the beginning to the Tetsuo incarnation monster blasting at the end, the whole process is filled with the noise and excessive quarrels that are hard to see in Japanese anime today, and the plot and characters that are not coherent are expressed in these terrible voices Even more uncomfortable. It's kind of like rock music, but it's more of a metal kind.
- It's just too cool.
As a work in the 1980s, this movie is completely one of the pioneers of today's increasingly mature cyberpunk . Whether it is the pure sound of mixed electric, or the full and fluorescent picture color, it has been integrated into a large number of later cyberpunk works, such as "Evangelion", "Ghost in the Shell" and even "Blade Runner 2049" Wait, these are enough to prove how advanced the director's aesthetic taste is.
In terms of plot, the movie puts aside the single view of good and evil and the distinction between primary and secondary characters, and multiple lines of Tiexiong, Jintian, supernatural children, and officers run in parallel to advance and show the development of the story. It combines themes of the struggle between the left and the right in Japan's internal affairs, the corruption of the upper class, the idleness of the youth of the civilian class, the bullying of the disadvantaged, and the ethics of human experimentation. By the end of the big bang, it may even be a bit baffling. Of course, it can also be interpreted as "destruction caused by the disorderly expansion of civilization", "nuclear threat", "hidden danger behind peace" and other multiple meanings. But in my opinion, even without these connotations, it is fine.
To sum up, no matter the plot, characters, pictures or music, this is obviously a crazy movie. And one of the most valuable things in human beings is the crazy imagination . From Fellini to Bergman to Akira Kurosawa, from Dadaism to New Wave, as an art of light and shadow, great film works may not be meaningful, but must be crazy - breaking through the original narrative method , to break the inherent method of expression, and explore the "extreme" with imaginative and eccentric. The connotation may be empty, but the madness must be overflowing.
And Akira's madness is not the same as the hysteria of the suffering of the common people, but a mixture of materialistic insolence, profligacy and imagination of racing all the way, possessing a kind of madness that is only available in a society where the wealth of the community is extremely inflated and highly developed. His temperament is a shadow of Japan that can only be created by the peak of Japan's bubble economy.
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