On Sunday afternoon, I originally wanted to play wow, but my two cats decided to sleep on my lap, so with more than 5 kg of love bombs, I decided to watch a movie instead - go with the flow and I didn't regret it.
Netflix made this offer, I watched a few seconds of the trailer - sci-fi can come then. I love these space travel, spaceship dramas, colonization, and there was even terraforming in this one.
The animation is beautiful, the character design is too extravagant for my taste, the music is beautiful, the atmosphere of the anime is very good, I really liked the story and it has something to say. Needless to say, I quickly watched the 8 episodes in one go, and my mind was almost spinning during and after the story, although as I write these lines my good narratives in my mind quiets down.
The story in short is that humanity has to move to a new planet, but the journey is long and the planet is unfit for human life. therefore, on the spaceship sent ahead, a copy of the sample of 5 selected specialists is made with a 3D bio printer in order to terraform the selected planet by the time the people arrive...but on the way something unexpected happens...a misprint and saboteurs.
The creation of the human body and the implantation of the original "copy of consciousness" or just a memory copy into the body made me wonder whether it can be classified as an ethical and full human being without soul. Creating a biological body is fine, although people's egos would make the distinction between mother-born or artificially created bodies, since many people still haven't gotten over the multitude of skin colors.
But that is another question, are there memories and thus personality only in that body or soul too? or does it matter at all? After all, it is a breathing and sentient being - so it is alive - then it has the right to live...but then how can we judge the life and death of another human being at all? In the anime, the copied - created characters also think about this - who are they? what makes us human? who has the right to life?
I suddenly remembered a movie about clones and memory implantation with Arnold Schwarzenegger - The 6th Day
The other thing is terraforming itself. On an uninhabited planet where there is no life or only microbes, I think it's okay - I mean non sentient beings- but where other life forms exist, as in this story, it already raises quite a lot of ethical problems...saving humanity and thereby the exterminate of native life forms or letting perish humanity - playing with them russian roulette - either they find another planet or not - and let the original planet inhabitants live.
Unfortunately, the dominant species - an invasive species - always decides and displaces, or in the worst case, wipes the other species off the face of the earth. How do we know and where do we get the authority to decide on the final extermination of a species - life form at all? For example: in the Ender's Game (in the end Ender decision) or James Cameron's Avatar movie, where the residents will lose their homes if they don't stand up for themselves, but unfortunately there are plenty of such in our earthly history...human/non-human hunger for power, greed is unfortunately limitless.
I really like the Civilization Beyond Earth game, because it also includes this basic decision - in case of planet colonization, which way do you take humanity ... harmony or supremacy or purity - guess which one I played ...
Of course, the withholding of information by certain companies plays a role here as well, so our characters faced ready-made facts and did everything they could to achieve what they believed in.
The anime based on an original story by Hirotaka Adachi with character designs by Yoshitaka Amano and directed by Yūzō Satō.
Debute on Netflix 13 of October.
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