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Wind Named Amnesia
No one could have prepared for it; it came silently, sweeping across the Earth. And everyone it touched forgot...everything. Who they were, how to speak, how to use all the implements of modern civilization. The amnesia wind swept away all of mankind's knowledge and thousands of years of human civilization vanished in an instant. Now, two years later, a young man wanders the landscape of an America reduced to barbarism. Miraculously re-educated after the disaster, he searches for the true heart of mankind...and for those responsible for stealing its memories. Accompanied by a mysterious woman who was somehow spared the wind's damage, he embarks on a coast-to-coast journey of danger and discovery pursued by a relentless killing machine.
I really enjoyed this movie. It is the type that makes you think. What's mankind? What's the human soul? What are we? These are the questions this movie can raise.
Have you ever imagined what it would be like if all humans where to loose all the knowledge we accumulated in the last centuries? This movie will show you what may just happen.
Man most powerful tool is his reason, the ability to think, to analyze, to create. If we take away the very basic of human reason, all our past knowledge, all that we learned, what would be left of man? This is one of the answer young Wataru seeks in this movie. Would man just be another beast? Or would it still be something more? What is the true meaning of humanity?
The ending may be a tiny bit disappointing, the artwork is average and there may have been an over use of mecha considering the nature of this movie, but in overall, it's nonetheless a good movie.
I strongly recommend it.
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