Saturday, April 24, 2010

[Y^^]: RoboCop (1987)

[Y^^]: RoboCop (1987)

The future of the movie is very gloomy. The capital control the city and police force.

Because financial difficulty of some cities such as LA, it may not be entirely fictional situation. The city is about to default on a debt. The fire fighters and police officers can not receive their salary. It's real.

Capitalism aims at making profits. People are forced to believe that the privatization is better because it's more efficent.

In the movie, the city, Detroit is governed by a company, OCP. The reason is familiar. Financial difficulty of regional government, privatization, M&A.

The company makes a plan to develop robots that substitute for police forces.

Murphy, a police officer was murdered in line of duty. Fortunately or unfortunately, he was reborn as cyborg. It's a great movie to express a bleak future dominated by the capitalism and efficiency. Also It says about beings between human and robots.


It's a very special movie to me, because I started to write something after watching this movie. The first fiction that I wrote was 'Neo Black(黑新敎).' It was affected by 'RoboCop' and 'The Legend of Condor Heroes(射鵰英雄傳).' Neo Black is a oriental fantasy novel. Robot police officiers, Taoist and vampires showed up. I wrote down on paper but I threw it away. I regret my action, but there is no Neo Black anymore.

2 comments:

  1. One more RoboCop from http://nowgnoy.blogspot.com/2010/04/robocop-1987.html

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  2. Xi Jjang, you really like RoboCop. Live action movie is OK, if you like. But more anime please~~~~.

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