The frustrating part about Sky Crawlers is that it's based on one book out of a four or five book series (none of which, IIRC, have been translated into english) -- so it's like it starts the story but then... doesn't keep going. That means it doesn't really have any solid resolution, not in the sense of what we'd expect from a standalone movie. As for the rest of it, well... it's a lot of the same tropes as what you can find in Last Exile, or even Battle Royale -- the notion of war as entertainment, and breeding/creating humans solely for the purposes of other people's entertainment.
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Date: 8 Sep 2010 04:01 pm (UTC)