The world view is grand, covering technology, politics and human nature, and the coquettish charm of cyberpunk is coming.
The meaning of the amoeba and the shocking big bang at the end endow the theme with philosophical thinking. The collapse of reality is the collapse of time and space between the past and the future. All concepts instantly turn into ethereal spots of light, making people palpitate. A million years later, perhaps the space junk is still floating around, but the species that made it has long since perished.
Otomo Keyang expounds the two paths of human survival in a dystopian context, one is the mutation that touches the "Black Stone" in "2001 A Space Odyssey", and the other is that human beings struggle to survive in the universe like an underground revolutionary army.
The film is full of satires of corruption and ignorance. Revolutionaries resist the regime, but they obey politicians. There is no heroism in the film, and blood is just the flesh and blood of political infighting. The public is crusade against technology, but superstitious about nuclear explosions. The people are buried like ants in the divine power they seek.
Talking about the inadequacies, on the one hand, the characters other than Tie Xiong are relatively simple, on the other hand, the match between the plot and the world view is somewhat unsatisfactory.
It has a long history but has extraordinary imagination across the times. The frame-by-frame hand-painting still achieves the exquisite and smooth picture. These two points alone have completely established a solid foundation for becoming a classic.
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