"I think I was a slave before the revolution, and not long after the revolution, I was deceived by the slaves and became their slave."
——Lu Xun
The third world war broke out in 1988, the city was razed to the ground, and it took mankind 31 years to rebuild civilization. One night in 2019, a mysterious child with a wrinkled face appeared on a riotous street during a demonstration. On the other side, Jintian and Tetsuo's biker party is fighting with another gang, and Tetsuo nearly collided with the mysterious child and had a car accident. The army chasing the mysterious child rushed to the scene and brought the mysterious child and the injured Tetsuo back to the research base.
Jin Tian is Tetsuo's captain, and he is also the jealous object of Tetsuo since he was a child. After the fight, Jin Tian accidentally met Ting from the anti-government organization, and through Ting contacted the anti-government organization and entered the research base to find Tie Xiong.
Unknowingly, Tetsuo became the latest experimental subject of the government's superpower research, a powerful and uncontrollable force - AKIRA Akira was awakened in Tetsuo. After a short and painful adjustment, Tetsuo begins to use Akira to destroy his own vanity at will. With the world in danger of being destroyed again, Jintian and Ting pursue and stop Tetsuo with the help of the head of research Colonel and three other mysterious children.
A sci-fi classic in the context of the Cold War, it expresses the ambivalence of rejection and yearning for power, fear and longing, doubt and fascination.
Akira's original meaning is light and hope, symbolizing the power of civilization and science and technology of human beings, and can refer to supernatural energy such as atomic bombs, nuclear weapons, and artificial intelligence. Everything in the world has a certain amount of energy, and Otomo Keyang calls this potential energy AKIRA Akira. Akira exists in every person, every animal, even water, air and other substances. After artificial development and utilization After that, the power of human beings will increase infinitely, and will reach the level of parity with the gods.
For millions of years, human beings have been striving for mysterious and powerful power, and Mu Qiang can be said to be a kind of nature engraved in the bones.
Compared with the Supreme Administrative Council, which accuses and blames each other, eats vegetarian meals, and symbolizes democracy, Otomo Keyang clearly favors the strong and authoritarian colonel.
But when human beings have powerful power but cannot control it, people will be attacked.
Tetsuohara was a weakling, but after suddenly awakening Akira in his body, he turned into a slaughtering machine that bullied the weak.
The revolution of one person is questioned, and the revolution of a group of people is not trusted.
The rioters, who were victims of tax policy, rallied into a force to be reckoned with, but turned Tokyo into a hell of violence, wanton killing and arson, and chaos. Those fanatical believers who follow Akira are like "monsters and ghosts", they worship Tetsuo as a savior, but Tetsuo does not care about the lives of these believers when attacking the government weapons that stop him. People shouting "free revolution" look hateful and pathetic.
As for the civilian hero Jin Tian, he seemed to be playing a game from beginning to end. He saved Ting by mistake at first, and finally restrained the demonized Tie Xiong and became the savior, and he got involved in this matter early on. The original intention of the battle of human destiny is not to save anyone, but only to pick up girls.
Perhaps in Otomo Keyang's mind, ordinary talents with shortcomings should be the focus of the world's attention. Blindly resorting to extreme powers, such as military use and development of technology and weapons, without paying attention to the spiritual development of people themselves, no matter how many revolutions occur, they will not be able to create a better future.
The film itself has many social philosophies worth thinking about, but the rhythm is relatively slow, and if you are not interested in "hot-blooded teenagers" and "motor machines", you will feel lethargic.
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