Origin – Spirits of the Past (2006)

Origin – Spirits of the Past: Directed by Keiichi Sugiyama. With Ryô Katsuji, Aoi Miyazaki, Yûko Kotegawa, Masaru Hamaguchi. It is 300 years into the future. Earth’s environment had been devastated by mankind’s own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary. The machine, which has preserved a beautiful girl named Tula from the past, is activated. Tula has a “mission” that had been entrusted to her by the past …

“In short, this film was an overall disappointment in many levels. The story contained some very interesting ideas, but they were delivered in a blunt and mediocre fashion. Some of these concepts are clumsily mentioned and ignored for the rest of the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAt times I got the feeling that this film tries to force its message on me. There were way too many clichéd and predictable moments to make things worse. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe main characters were annoying and shallow. The film doesnu0026#39;t give enough focus to any of the characters but continuously shuffles from one to the other in a disjointed fashion.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe visuals were impressive but thatu0026#39;s something very common among many anime films. At times it felt as if some scenes were artificially added for visual value. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGin-iro no kami no Agito, feels pretty much like an incomplete story board strung together hastily. If you are a fan of this genre, I recommend that you are better off with titles as u0026#39;Princess Mononokeu0026#39;, u0026#39;Grave of the Firefliesu0026#39; or u0026#39;Nausicaa of the Valley of the Windu0026#39;.”