Some scars will never heal.
The story takes place in the distant post-apocalyptic future on Earth, where a major event known as the "60 Minutes War" destroyed human civilization and changed the geography of the world.
A thousand years later, when the population is decimated by war and society is starting anew, the hottest new trend in urban planning is "trailer cities", where entire towns are built on gigantic machines on gigantic tank tracks Redemption was found by driving, roaming the countryside like a pirate ship, searching for whatever resource they could find to survive.
London, the largest of these cities, is known as the "meat-eating city", and according to a philosophy of principles known as "municipal Darwinism", the pulling cities of many smaller cities are used as food, a natural selection where only the strong survive. philosophy.
However, there are also some who oppose the idea, the most famous being the Anti-Traction Coalition, which is protected by a huge, impenetrable protective wall (1800 meters).
Sci-fi as a genre means pushing the boundaries, dealing with radical, imaginative concepts and innovative effects, Predator City brings us grand steampunk hard sci-fi, with a powerful Narrative and character building.
Director Peter Jackson showed us a moving city composed of steam-powered machines, bending and splitting in the mix of rotating gears and chimneys, trampling and devouring the city recklessly. The scene is quite spectacular.
The whole movie has a Mad Max feel to it, using CG visuals to bring mobile traction cities and brutal terrain to the big screen, plus some fictional scenes, and some industrial aesthetic vibes to shape a A cruel and savage world.
In the film, the city of London is 860 meters high, 1.5 kilometers wide, and 2.5 kilometers long.
The "Sky City" of the anti-traction alliance is a metropolis composed of many small spaceships and bustling hot air balloons and other artifacts, just like Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle."
Predatory City is a relatively solid and well-made sci-fi feature film in recent years.
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