There is simply too much potential for this story to be packed into a two hour movie and it often felt rushed and jumped around far too much. It was have been a lot more interesting had it been an actual show, or at least an OVA. There are about three different mini stories within the film giving it the feel of a much longer show. The main character, Wataru, travels across America in a jeep with a strange women he meets in Los Angles. Is it pleasure? Life? Power? With the protection of civilization stripped from us what is it that will motivate us to act?Ī Wind Named Amnesia is has a lot in common with Kino's Journey - The Complete Collection. Johnny teaches Wataru as much as he can and sends him on a journey across a deserted world to observe the human being in its most basic state and find what it is that drives us. His name is Johnny, a genetically enhanced boy whose brain acts as a super computer which allows him to function like a normal human. Wataru is just another helpless victim to this terrifying disaster alone and starving he stumbles upon an old military facility where he meets the one person left alive that retains some memories. In an instant the thriving civilization we've created is reduced to rubble and its creators to bloody savages who poses nothing but their most basic and unexplainable instincts. Planes fall from the sky as pilots forget how to operate their aircraft, cars crash, the world burns. In an instant every bit of knowledge we as a species have gained over the course of millions of years is gone, even our language and family ties are severed in the chaos that follows. wiping clean the memories of every person on the planet. Set in 1999, six years after the movies original release, humanity has been completely devastated by a mysterious wind which blows across the world, As the pair make their way across America, they learn about what has happened to the rest of society, and what the essence of humanity really is.ĭon't you absolutely HATE it when you find a movie online with an absolutely irresistible plot that's almost too amazing to be bad, and then see it only to realize the person who made it had no artistic talent whatsoever? I don't know about you, but it happens to me a lot, and all I can think when finished is how much better I could have made it.Ī Wind Named Amnesia is one of those kinds of movies. Sophia says that she is heading to New York, and decides to travel together with Wataru. Wataru sets out on a journey to see if he can find other people like him, and in San Francisco, he meets a mysterious silver-haired woman named Sophia, who refuses to speak about her past. Johnny names the young man Wataru and teaches him everything that he can before his frail body fails him. One young man happens to wander into a military testing facility, where he meets Johnny, a young boy who underwent experimental memory enhancement treatment and could, therefore, still remember who he was. Not knowing their names or even how to speak, cars crashed, planes dropped from the sky, and society crumbled in an instant. Two years ago, a mysterious wind swept over the Earth without warning, taking everyone's memories with it.
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