Some impressions of a few first episodes of other series (beyond IS 2, which of course I did previously): The music was charming, I don't often like 80s/early 90s synth, but this was quirky enough to appeal to me. There's some very expressive character animation too. The increasingly elaborate design of the bed as it absorbs more and more machines into itself, and the wires which fly every which way as it does so, are a joyous expression of mechanical excess of the kind I associate with Otomo and other animators and artists of the late 80s and early 90s. The mechanical animation was really cool, especially in the action scenes in the later part. The characters are simple but charming, and it's difficult to not sympathize with Takazawa's desire to just see the beach with his wife again and Haruko's single-minded devotion to her patient. It manages to thoughtfully consider what society's attitude to the elderly should be - are they vegetables to be tossed about and forgotten or do they deserve respect and love even after senility sets in - while staying upbeat with humor and eye-catching spectacle. It uses technological advances to shine light on a present-day social problem - care of the growing elderly population, a problem which certainly hasn't gone away between the film's release in 1991 and now. Science fiction in the classic sense of the word.
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