Understanding Akira | The Pursuit of Power

Akira is a Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo and released in 1988 - met with critical success and hailed as a landmark of animation, we investigate what the film is really about in this video essay - while learnimg a bit about how it was made.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:52 Kaneda and Tetsuo
3:11 A Nuclear Allegory
4:17 Otomo and Akira
6:16 Power Corrupts
8:33 Bike and Cape
10:53 Akira's Visual Storytelling
14:09 Destruction and Reconstruction
15:55 Final Words
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