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The name "old man Z" in the movie is actually a combination of "old man Z". "Z" is the hardware product of a commercial biochemical computer company, which is the so-called "sixth generation computer" in the play. It is higher than the "fifth generation computer" with A.I. artificial intelligence, because it not only has basic A.I. artificial intelligence, but also can learn and evolve by itself. However, because this commercial biochemical computer company will design and manufacture this kind of computer, not because it has great feelings for the benefit of the people, but because the ultimate purpose of business is military use, it secretly refits this new generation of computer into a hospital bed for the elderly who have no self-care ability to test the self-evolution function of the computer.
The protagonist "the old man" in the play is a volunteer, a beautiful and handsome female nurse, Haruko, who is responsible for taking care of ordinary daily life. Because the old man was chosen as the first user of the artificial intelligence sickbed, Haruko couldn't stand the cold technology of the high-intelligence sickbed except for the lack of humanity, so together with a group of "hacker old men" in the hospital, she tried to wake up the "old man" with her long-missed dead wife.
AKIRA, directed by Dayou Kebo, is popular all over the world and impressed many people. In fact, Dayou Shengbo was in charge of the script (original) of Old Man Z, and the characters were set by another cartoonist, punctual Jiangkou, and the film was directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo.
Like many Japanese animated films in the early years, this old man Z only enjoyed it through VHS video. Frankly speaking, I went to see this work because of the fame of Dayou Shengbo, because the previous release of akira really captured the hearts of many animation fans, although I found out that Dayou Shengbo was just writing a script after actually watching Old Man Z. There is a big gap between the delicacy of the animated characters and the vividness (the design of the characters of Jiangkou Shoushi is out of shape in many original painters' works). However, the story of "Old Man Z" written by Dayou Shengbo still has many charms of science fiction and reflection, and the whole work is presented in a more popular and humorous way, which eliminates the habit of Japanese people always using difficult philosophy and grammar and conveys similar reflections to the public in a humorous way.
Looking back at this old man Z many years later, apart from the brushwork and texture of the characters, it is inevitable that the style of the animated film is really different from that of the current one. However, in the script written by Dayou Shengbo, the old man Z not only brings the audience a carefree entertainment rhythm (the director is of course one of the main heroes), but also the disturbing fear revealed in science and technology is quite accurate in the film. As early as the early 1990s, Dayou Shengbo predicted the possible environment for future social evolution, especially in countries like Japan, which highly yearned for and actively developed new technologies. Under the premise of pursuing higher quality of life, people often forget the key of "humanity", which is difficult to teach and set in software planning. The most terrible thing is that this is also the ultimate goal of hardware self-thinking pursued by scientists. In the future, when computers can really wake up on their own, humans will undertake this technology on their own.