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+title = "Patlabor The Movie (1989)"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-04-11T21:01:00+02:00
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+weight = 3001
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+abstract = "The proto-GITS is still very nice!"
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+There was a time when _Patlabor_ was an established name.
+
+It was huge, it had _Mamoru Oshii_.Now, sadly, it's mostly forgotten.
+_Patlabor: The Movie_ is the first from the universe.
+I'll cover the following two soon, as this is my rewatch after decades.
+
+The story takes place in the distant future of 1999.
+Manual labor is aided by Labors, huge exoskeletons.
+Tokyo is undergoing a huge project, where old suburbs are demolished and artificial island are created on the coast.
+Some Labors are going berserk, destroying everything on their paths despite being unmanned.
+
+{{< img-c "patlabor-movie-1-0001.jpg" >}}
+Sucide is painless...
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+
+{{< img-c "patlabor-movie-1-0002.jpg" >}}
+...It brings on many changes
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+
+Let's start with the visual feast.
+The movie looks stunning!
+Yes, later movies from IG top what we see here, and sometimes the faces may look weird.
+It's not perfect.
+But if we would simply tell ourselves that this style of animations is the peak and let's just try to maintain the quality, I'd be more than happy.
+The way this 35-year-old movie looks is a testament to the power of manual drawings.
+The design, the camera work, the coloring - I loved every second.
+
+Another cute thing I've noticed: _The Movie_ is an Oshii-type of movie.
+It came in this short period, where _anime_ was treating western culture as something alien and cool.
+We're seeing this in Jin-Roh, Evangelion, GITS, and many others.
+Here we've got the Bible.
+
+{{< img-c "patlabor-movie-1-0003.jpg" >}}
+For a mecha anime, we've got a lot of people talking in different rooms
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+But this also shows the biggest problem of _Patlabor: The Movie_: it is shallow.
+On surface level, we've got everything one could ever want: Unabomber-style genius on a quest to stop progress at all cost.
+We're seeing how _old_ is discarded in the name of progress.
+We've also got a huge computer system which is maintained without deep understanding of how it works.
+Basically, 1999 is like 2024.
+But none of this is really developed.
+The main characters never stop and think, that maybe the world is not going the best route?
+Eiichi Hoba, the aforementioned Unabomber, is just a plot device: the viewer is also never confronted with his viewpoint.
+
+As it stands, _The Movie's_ story is disjointed:
+on one side we've got the real and interesting question.
+On the other, no one looks for answers and just accepts the risks of unconstrained growth.
+But maybe this was the point?
+We're seeing the same today: the world is ending, and most people are racing to be the last one to shut down the lights.
+It is scary how believable this is.
+Even the main threat is solved by a software rollback...
+
+_Patlabor: The Movie_ is good on its own, but it suffers from being the proto Ghost in the Shell.
+It's not near as good, nor is it as good as its sequel.
+But taking it at face value is really solid.
+I had huge fun rewatching it, but left unsatisfied for sophisticated sociopsychological treat Oshii is known for.
+
+My rating is 3.75/5
+
+{{< img-c "patlabor-movie-1-0004.jpg" >}}
+Hav I mentioned thast this movie looks stunning?
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+
+{{< img-c "patlabor-movie-1-0005.jpg" >}}
+S-T-U-N-N-I-N-G
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+
+{{< img-c "patlabor-movie-1-0006.jpg" >}}
+It always amazes me how many anime shows older guys in their undergarments.
+I get, that Japan gets extremely hot during summer, but is it real that frequent?
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+
+{{< img-c "patlabor-movie-1-0008.jpg" >}}
+One of many GITS-style scenes.
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