It's one of my favorite movies. The car designs are great, the plot is great, animation is fantastic. Do yourself a favour and give it a watch, it's a hell of a ride.
Cyberpunk
What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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Redline is a fantastic movie, one of my favorites. It used to be on YouTube for free (uploaded from the studio's official channel, so it was a legit release), but it looks like they may have pulled it some time ago.
If you were ever a fan of the F-ZERO games or enjoyed the vibe of Initial D, you need to watch this movie.
Thanks for the recommendation! The anime world is so vast it can be a big effort to find stuff like this.
It might not be a dark Gibsonian ballad, but it plays a lot of the same power chords as cyberpunk. High tech fascism, grandiose cyborgs, organized crime, the indomitable human spirit, and dirty deeds (done dirt cheap). It just so happens that when you play all those same notes like Takeshi Koike, you get Redline. I wanted to think of the best genre for this metaphor, but every comparison that came to mind fell short. You just have to see it.
Great movie. I love anything where the solution is something like "We're losing the race, what do we do?" "Well what if we pushed the pedal down...harder"
I just watched this on a whim recently. I think it was streaming on prime, but I can't be sure.
I've been curious to watch this one since I saw an AMV a few years ago that someone made out of clips from it -- but I never managed to track down a copy.
My son and I have watched this movie too many times to count. Since it's high tech, low life... Dystopian, and style over substance, I would call it cyberpunk personally.