[REVIEW] Akira
Dec. 23rd, 2005 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI'd a rather fun night last night, watching Akira and The Animatrix with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
finfin over Moldovan wine (more on that later) and snacks and with good conversation. The wine (well, actually, its country of origin) and The Animatrix will get their own entries later today. Now is Akira's turn.
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Akira is a great film for the same reason that Homer's Odyssey, for its reduction of grand megascale events to a comprehensible human level. In Homer's case, the drama of great wars and encounters with deities and hemi-deities of all sorts is comprehensible through the single figure of Odysseus and his struggle to come home. In Akira, Kaneda's struggle to try to understand what's going on with Tetsuo is the key to understand Tetsuo's ascension to God-like power.
Akira works. I may yet watch it the requisite five times before I head off to check the extra features.
finfin over Moldovan wine (more on that later) and snacks and with good conversation. The wine (well, actually, its country of origin) and The Animatrix will get their own entries later today. Now is Akira's turn.Akira is a great film for the same reason that Homer's Odyssey, for its reduction of grand megascale events to a comprehensible human level. In Homer's case, the drama of great wars and encounters with deities and hemi-deities of all sorts is comprehensible through the single figure of Odysseus and his struggle to come home. In Akira, Kaneda's struggle to try to understand what's going on with Tetsuo is the key to understand Tetsuo's ascension to God-like power.
Akira works. I may yet watch it the requisite five times before I head off to check the extra features.
