The Rat

Therat

• 02:43:52 pm on Octubre 18, 2006 | # | 1
  

  

  I’m not giving it back.

   I’ve seen so many drama, comedy, action, shojo and shonen in anime, but never before a sci-fi. Maybe Macross? Robotech? No, those are mechas, I think. Now, I think I got my first true science fiction anime movie with Metropolis.

  I couldn’t help but noticing the similarities with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis -specially at Tima’s awakening-, but it wasn’t one of those remakes you feel ashamed of: it was awesome. Tima is so beautiful (in the Ozamu Tezuka trade mark beauty) you can’t but love her. And Kenichi’s courage doesn’t stop him from being a child, sometimes powerless against adults; and the uncle trying to show more braveness than he has, all because of Kenichi… and Pero. You have to look Pero in the eyes even if they’re as static as any robot’s.

  “Why do humans have to solve their problems by violence?”, Pero asks.

  And the man saying that it’s a good question, because humans are led by strong emotions, emotions they have to expand even by violence, to be set apart from robots, and then he shoots Pero in the head, and revolution begins.

  I don’t care much about tech devices. But the story of the ziggurat backfiring in its makers, the gods punishing people for going so far… Or is it our own foolishness what makes the fall all the worse?

  And the music. Jazz music. During the chaos. Jazz. If world has to go down some day, I would like God to make us the favor of let us go while the band is playing jazz. So, in the end, there’ll be no goodbyes.