The film's depiction of New Tokyo is restrained, and even more so is the speculation about the future of New Tokyo and even human development.
New Tokyo, rebuilt after the war, is vast and vast, with rows of high-rise buildings, neon billboards, and the ubiquitous young people looking for fun on the streets, making the world's most densely populated city a materialistic city. cyberpunk miniatures. Needless to say, the big city is synonymous with sex and violence, a fear of anarchism. On the contrary, the most charismatic character in the whole film is the Colonel's school. He is different from the military martial arts of the previous soldiers, and has the courage to strive to break through the barriers of capital and directly address the fundamental development problems of society. "My duty is not to believe or not, but to execute and not to execute." The film conveys the idealism through the colonel's words to ensure the execution that a society should have. Obviously, the director is more inclined to accept the setting of a military feeling than to entrust the fate of mankind to the people who "illegally gather" on the street, and to overcome the huge hidden dangers, and to indulge in the pleasure of pure scientific research. But this is not belligerent but anti-war.
In Zuo Zhuan, it is said, "It is easy to rectify with chaos and not force." There are many elements of chaos in the film. But the film satirizes two types of chaos: one is the fans of feudal superstition who advocated ghost theology during the riots. They occupied the commanding heights of public opinion with propaganda that surpassed human cognition, and made maximum use of the weakness of people's lack of belief in troubled times, and they were suspected of taking advantage of people's danger. And when disaster strikes, the so-called "redemption in the fire" creed is nothing more than a eulogy for fleeing in a hurry. The second type of chaos is more obscure. This is mainly reflected in the heroine A Ting. The organization she is in is nothing more than a tool of government corruption under the guise of rebellion. intensified social contradictions. A-Ting is an innocent rebel, but there are hundreds of such innocents. They may not have figured out their role in the rebellion from beginning to end. This undoubtedly exacerbates the chaos in society and makes it difficult to truly promote social progress. Back to the colonel, the most timely and accurate information made his execution not only powerful but also the most effective. In the face of a filthy society that seems bound to break with it, violence is inevitable, but it is by no means unarmed.
However, in the face of Akira, the most ideal co-ordination and the most powerful weapon could not prevent the wanton spread of its powerful forces.
What is Akira, Akira is the energy that does not belong to human beings, it is the ability that human beings cannot control. It is the original sin that made the amoeba greedily devour everything around it; it is the nuclear nightmare that Japan feared and longed for after the war. In a world with Akira, human beings are not redeemed, but are blinded by this unknown force: the people on the overpass would rather lose their lives to watch Akira's appearance. And the suffering after countless ruins and casualties is the only thing left behind by Akira's repeated ravages.
"It was like the beginning of the universe." In Akira's annihilation, the old world was truly purged, and the new world was revealed. Perhaps what Akira wants to convey is that at present only denuclearization and deification is the only way to end suffering and riots. But at the end of the film, there is still a suspenseful conjecture: Can human beings finally match the gods and gain the ability to control "Aguilar" in the evolution? Although not now, "but one day, we can also..." "Look, we have begun to experiment..."
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