It is also the projection of the self he should be using every time he plugs into VR. It is the image he would always envision when combing his hair or fixing a tie, and it is the voice he would use when talking to himself in his head. The sleeve portrayed by Byron Mann is Takeshi's real self sleeve. When he wakes up in Ryker's body, he is enraged because of the mental anguish of losing his real sleeve, and when Russian gangster uses Takeshi's clone sleeve against him in a fight, Takeshi has emotional trouble at first in fighting his own sleeve. His inner monologue should be the voice of Byron Mann. That inner monologue happened to be the white lead of the show, and that really annoyed me. Takeshi lived a lot of his life in different skins, but at the end of the day the show creators still gave him an inner monologue. It's the projection the characters in the Matrix make of themselves when they are inserted into the Matrix - their preferred hair style, manner of dress, everything down to their preferred super cool early 00's sunglasses and guns. It's a human ego's version of the perfect circle, only instead of a circle, it's the perfect self. This is our ego's Platonic conception of itself. And when we sing songs in our head and run through hypothetical arguments with people and talk to ourselves, we imagine our voice sounding a specific way that is different from the way it actually sounds. When we comb our hair without the benefit of a mirror, we usually imagine our hair looks a very specific way, only to discover when we look in the mirror that we screwed it up. Here are my thoughts:Įveryone has an internal monologue, an inner conception of what we look and sound like. I'm someone who really liked the show but thought the casting caused a plot issue. It's just easy to poke fun at if you haven't seen it, but I think it's an incredible movie.
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But he's not the movie is about the last of the Samurai, possibly even casting Ken Watanabe's character as the last Samurai. I think people just jump to the conclusion, because Tom Cruise's name is on the cover (because most mainstream audiences had no idea who Ken Watanabe was back then), they read is as "Tom Cruis is The Last Samurai". I think the fact that he walks away from the battle alive is proof that he's never truly embraced being a Samurai, even though he learns a deep respect for the culture.
That's the whole meaning behind the sword's inscription at the end. He never up-stages an actual, trained Samurai, but instead takes the things he knows - deceptive tactics and "fighting dirty" - and joins them with the Samurai. Really, Tom Cruise was just a scion, allowing us to look at the culture from the other side, in a meaningful way. I also love that movie, and one of the few roles I feel like Tom Cruise did a truly exceptional job with. Someone has attempted to murder a wealthy man Įthical implications of stacks aren't explored. Rather than explore the ethical implications of this technology, Altered Carbon focuses on a mystery. Wanted to share it, but not without pointing this out. I just stumbled over the review and was stunned. If you don't change the race of the source material but it's a white male and you cast a white male, that's especially problematic. If you change the race of the source material - an asian woman - to a white woman: That's whitewashing. In that adaptation, Scarlett Johansson played an Asian woman’s consciousness inside a white android.
The creators would have done well to instead cast an Asian actor as the reborn Takeshi, avoiding the same whitewashing controversy that plagued last year’s Ghost in the Shell. That’s how it’s written in the book, but onscreen it’s especially problematic. The authors writes mostly about feminism in hollywood so that's obviously her thematic focus.įor viewers, the mystery may instead be why Takeshi’s sleeve takes the form of Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman (House of Cards) playing an Asian man living in a white guy’s body. The author talks a lot about diversity: Three of six paragraphs are either about diversity or about gender roles. Netflix's Altered Carbon Is Anything But Progressive Sci Fi | Time R/television's favorite shows of all time (2022 edition) >!Spoiler!!Television!< becomes Television Links
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