spiralofhope

TODO – Oh god my DVD looks awful. I’m spoiled by Blu-Ray.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378428/

I’m not really sure what’s going on with this movie. Something about cyborgs and a guy who is in love with one that he’s trying to “resurrect”.

It’s an interesting watch, but probably only because it’s Korean. I don’t get to see a lot of foreign science fiction movies outside of the glut of Japanese anime. I sort of like it, but I tend to get confused in a couple of places. It’ll be recommended, but only to those of a similar mind to me.

Very good subtitles; very few were awkward for me.

• Korean: 내츄럴 시티

• See also Blade Runner – (1982 movie)

• 0:30 — One minute of reading.

  Time I’ve spent with R:
  652 days.

  Time left with R:
  78 hours, 12 seconds… 11 seconds…

  How many days left?
  I mean in your life span.

  Three days.

  Ria
  we’ll be on the Muyoga by then…
  traveling to a place far from here…
  a place with no memories…
  no reminiscences… no pain.

• 2:30 — Well that’s a police state.

• 6:30 — Fortune-telling

  • I suspect they are Kau cim. See also Chinese fortune telling.
• 9:45 — Well you can still blow off pieces of them.
• 11:30 — Finally, a movie with characters that use advanced sensors.
• 12:00 — So if those are rogue combat cyborgs, why aren’t they bringing non-rogue combat cyborgs?
• 13:00 — A huge chunk of them will need to attend to survivors. Or would they all have died?
• 20:00 — He would require more than a bandage for that hand.
• 24:30 — Manufactured April 23 2077
• 27:30 — Bwahaha that’s awesome.
• 41:30 — Why would they leave her there? Did they think she was an inactive robot?
• 48:30 — So did the fortune teller-girl escape?

• 50:30 — Where’d the bike go?

  • I guess the budget wasn’t there for it.
• 57:00 — Why is he there anyway? Why was he ever interested in her? Did I miss something?
• 58:00 — She could just turn and walk away.
• 1:01:45 — Adonis amurensis
• 1:02:45 — Oh, was I not paying attention that he wants that girl for the memory transplant thing? I think that was it.

• 1:03:30 — So she’s an escort? A masseuse?

  • 1:03:45 — Rape.
• 1:06:30 — Actual rape trauma? But she’s not even on Twitter!
• 1:08:30 — I’m really confused about them not hitting the cyborgs.
• 1:09:30 — It should have been established that the smoke grenades are effective against their sensors for some reason or other.
• 1:12:00 — If the original dude is expired, then how could he have acted in the way he had, passing for someone competent to do the transfer they had been arranging?
• 1:17:30 — Holy shit dude.
• 1:20:00 — The subtitles are regularly awkward throughout this combat.
• 1:27:00 — Suicide attack. Which should have been entirely thwarted since she was in a confined space and the helicopter had a M61 Vulcan (or thereabouts).
• 1:28:30 — Why would this action be bad at all? Isn’t it a transfer from one single cyborg to one single human?
• 1:29:15 — Oh, it would have been that single guy transferring to all combat cyborgs? That’s bad.. because I guess they would combine the original human’s capabilities.
• 1:35:30 — What the hell, is that a six-shooter?

• 1:36:45 — Dude, that is awesome!