Hello everyone!
I always find it difficult to choose my favourite things like food, songs, books, series or movies and this time was not the exception 😬 but I think that definitely one of my favourites movies is Akira.
Akira is a Sci-fi Japanese animation movie from 1988, it's 33 years old! Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, and based on his homonymus Manga. It last 2 horus and 4 minutes, although is made entirely by hand it has beautiful and really amazing fluent movements, the level of detail is incredible!! It was made with 160.000 animation celluloids.
Set in a Post-apocalyptic reality in a city called Neo-Tokyo, the year is 2019, the story revolves around two friends: Tetsuo Shima and Shotaro Kaneda, orphaned teens who dedicate their time to roaming the streets with their motorcyle gangs but one day Tetsuo has an accident and is involved in an secret experiment of a military project that leads him to develop a HUGE psychic power.
In summary, it's about what happens when power falls into the "wrong hands", in this case the hands of a child resentful of society who has been violated all his life.
Although I think we can discuss how dangerous could be if that power was managed by the fascist government or the militar forces but I'm not going to delve into that 👀...
The first time I saw it was in the Summer of 2017, I was 17 years old and I remember the sadness I felt as the film progressed and how Tetsuo becomes a real monster, but it too made me reflect about how systematic violence leads people to desire absolute destruction of everything.
It really blew my mind, I even wrote an essay about it in my last year in High school!! 😅
It's really a piece of art and I think to this point a cult film 😂 Have you seen it?
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