I Thought About It, Therefore I Wrote About It: ERGO PROXY (2006)

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TITLE: Ergo Proxy
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SUMMARY:

In a post-apocalyptic future humans live in peace with androids in a domed city. However, a strange series of murders has intruded into bored inspector Re-l Mayer's life.

PERSONAL CRITIQUE:

You know I have to do an obligatory anime every week, and I'm doing this one now! Ergo Proxy follows the adventures of Re-l Mayer and Vincent Law as they seek to understand their purpose in the world. Or something like that, it's set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans and machines, called entourages, coexist within domed cities. It's been a minute since I've watched the entire series, so pardon my possible incorrectness somewhere in this text.

Anyway, the series is set, like I said, in a very dark post-apocalypse world, with science-fiction/cyberpunk elements galore. There's a persona beyond Re-l and Vincent as well that is positively amazing and core to the plot, that we're actually introduced to in the first episode I believe. Regardless the core plot point itself is the existence of creatures known as Proxies, which I can't really explain in great detail without breaking into spoiler territory, but let's just say they're rather god-like in power. The point being, the setting is pretty well thought out.

Despite the dark, brooding nature of Re-l and the blandness of Vincent, the two actually draw a lot of attention from the viewer, and, in my case at least, I found it pretty easy to attach myself to the two. In fact, my first experience with the series was a brief five minute jaunt in the middle of the series, and it stuck with me so well I managed to look it up seven or eight years later.

RATING:

Nine out of Ten suddenly self-aware machines would give this movie Four random game show episodes, out of Five.

Speaking of random game show episodes, that's kind of a low and high point in the series, where our heroes randomly wind up in a game show with no explanation, and the audience gets explanations about a lot of the strangeness going on in the world.