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+ Roujin Z
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+Let's care for the elderly… with robots!
+========================================
+
+:CreationDate: 2012-09-23 19:38:47
+:Id: anime/review/roujin-z
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 4
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/roujin-z
+
+Written by OOTOMO Katsuhiro (大友 克洋, "Akira", "Memories",
+"Steamboy"), directed by KITAKUBO Hiroyuki (北久保 弘之, "Robot
+Carnival", "Golden Boy"), this is a tale about old age, AIs,
+transforming robots, the welfare state.
+
+The story: an elderly man get chosen to be put into a prototype
+mechanised medical bed, which should provide him with full
+life-support and assistance, much better than what could be
+accomplished with more manpower-intensive care in a standard
+hospital. Haruko, the nurse who used to assist him, is sceptical. The
+AI in the bed is very keen to help the old man, and with some
+unexpected input from a team of sprightly old hackers in the
+retirement home, it takes on the personality of his deceased wife, and
+decides to bring him to the beach. And, given that the bed is
+essentially a transforming robot capable of incorporating whatever
+machines it finds, stopping it is not an easy task.
+
+This movie is an interesting piece of anime history: it was originally
+released in 1991, 21 years ago, just 3 years after Akira. Japan had
+been feeling the pressure of its ageing population for some time
+already, and it's no surprise that writers like Ootomo, with a SF
+slant, would think of technological solutions. But, like any good
+writer, Ootomo did not just assume that technology would "magically"
+solve all problems. Technology is designed, built, and deployed by
+people, and people make mistakes, people have personal goals, people
+have different opinions. And the road to Hell is paved with good
+intentions. Accordingly, this movie shows, with humour and without
+lecturing, that complex problems require complex solutions. Properly
+caring for the elderly requires human-level intelligence and empathy,
+and if your self-improving AI is to meet the challenge, it may well
+learn to empathise, and do anything in its power to make the old man
+happy. Building the bed out of what is, essentially, a military-grade
+multi-purpose assault tank might not have been, in retrospect, the
+smartest of ideas :)
+
+I don't think that releasing `Solid State Society`_ and Roujin Z to the
+English-speaking world just three weeks apart was an intentional
+choice, but they are very close thematically: they are both reflecting
+an the consequences to society of having too many old people who can't
+look after themselves, and who have no family to look after them. Both
+movies present technological solutions (or would-be solutions) to the
+issues, both movies deal with AIs, man-machine interfaces, and the
+importance of "humanness". If you can stand the 20 years of distance
+in the drawing and animation techniques, I strongly encourage you to
+watch both: they're good "food for thought".
+
+.. _`Solid State Society`: ../gits-sac/