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| Description | It was bueatiful to watch. The imagery was stunning. A lot of cyberpunk or future dystopian sci-fi has a look that owes to Alien or Blade Runner. They imagine a corporate future where western hegemony is blended with exotic international elements. Because this film was primarily set in south east Asia, it created a completely different visual language. The west looked like a modern and prosperous world, run by a giant military. The east looked organic and richly layered. The robots, people, and society visually presented something much more intriguing and updated than all the movies that are mild copies of the original Blade Runner. However, the acting, plot, and characters were flat. It felt like it was the 80 pages of a slim manga being bueatifully illustrated on a large screen, but with a story that was still as thin and 2D as source material. |