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Most disturbing image in The Second Renaissance

posted 21 years ago by juno_nova
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I think many people would unanimously agree The Second Renaissance parts I and II are the most disturbing episodes in the Animatrix. So what are the most disturbing and memorable images you’ve had of those anime features?

For me though it would have to be the image where the human soldier has his arms and legs torn off as he was being pulled from his mech. Coupled with his cries of help and his scream makes a very disturbing scene.

[–] miply 18 years ago

Yeah, me too. The screams when they're tearing the robot open are so haunting, and his agonizing cries as his arms and legs are stretched until they eventually tear. I'm not really bothered by the gory side- it was more of a psychological thing with me.
The second part has to be when those guys are beating up that female robot. I think it's something to do with the screams again, but I feel so sorry for her as she hasn't done anything wrong.
I actually felt really sorry for the robots in the movie (in the beginning). They're just so harmless and cute (excluding the one that became a murderer) and because of one robot's crimes they all had to pay. I thought it was interesting that throughout the movie of the Matrix we assume that WE'RE the good guys- when in fact we are the ones who kicked it off and we're just as bad.

[–] km64146 18 years ago

how about when they were experimenting on those people and they were cut in half and probing their brains to see what kind of reactions they would have. i mean, they were severed horizontally and vertically. that was pretty graphic. i love these movies.

[–] miply 18 years ago

Hmmm... That bit didn't really effect me much- I was thinking "Wow! that's cool! when I think about how it'd be in real life though, it's horrifying.
Another part that spooked me is when that kid's playing in the snow and he hears his parents calling him. He gets closer and realises that they're both agents. I'd hate that to happen to me.

[–] Heinkelbomber 18 years ago

Can someone give me a pic of those cool mechs?

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[–] xXErisedaXx 18 years ago

Most gruesome? That bit where the robot ripped that's guy's head in half and we see his brain, eyeballs, dentures. That gave me nightmares for the rest of the week. Nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty, NASTY!!!

"I hope I'm there, catching some of the light comin' off ya that day." ~Silver, Treasure Planet

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[–] Heinkelbomber 18 years ago

Think of this one:

All the POWs we see suffering in the ending were later pluged into the first matrix, the paradise one were no one suffers :D

It makes the vivisection part a little more "tolerable", altough still scares the s hit out of me...

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[–] Heinkelbomber 18 years ago

mechs.

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"Goldie, how many times do i have to tell you i want no horseing on the airplane?"

[–] Stujas 18 years ago

Did anyone notice this? During one of the battles, a machine is holding a soldier and he is screaming, and a nuke sets off in the backround killing them all. Best scene in the movie for me.

[–] jj23sb 18 years ago

By far the most disturbing scene, for me, was the end where everyone is lined up and hooked into the Matrix.

When things reach their extremes they often develop in the opposite direction. - Taoist proverb

[–] maxshan 18 years ago

Neh, for me, not one was disturbing. Although I must say that AI must have somewhat of a soul. Maybe not as we understand it, but defenetly a form of life. As for the most freaky part, if you want, I guess the one with the kid's story when he jumps. That was just hypnotic!

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[–] Heinkelbomber 18 years ago

Yeah, that part of the music fits so perfectly in the Short...

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"Goldie, how many times do i have to tell you i want no horseing on the airplane?"

[–] le_pony 18 years ago

Yeah stujas! That the best in the movie for me too.

[–] steelyphil67 17 years ago

I agree. The scene were all the soliders are being hooked into The Matrix was horrific. I felt like I wanted to turn my eyes away.

It's strange that a scene like this terrifies me, but the scenes were the machines were being hunted down very viciously by humans didn't strike me as hard. I don't if it's just because I can't identify with the machines or not. I will admit that when the mob beats the humanoid-robot woman to death that it was terrible and unjust, but other scenes I really feel nothing like when a machine gets shot or run over.

If a scene such as the creation of the first Matrix can terrify me, it makes me wonder what a machine would feel or think watching humans exterminate their kind.

[–] thetrooper23 17 years ago

When the human leaders clap at the concept of Operation Dark Storm.

That was pure madness.

[–] nnq2603 9 years ago

Yeah, decicing destroy the sky and clapping with their sick/morbit facial expressions. That was it, really messed up.

[–] Revanchist 14 years ago

"Think of this one:

All the POWs we see suffering in the ending were later pluged into the first matrix, the paradise one were no one suffers :D

It makes the vivisection part a little more "tolerable", altough still scares the s hit out of me..."

Exactly. At least the robots had the decency to program a virtual world for us, a world where we could go on with our lives as if the war never happened, as if the first AI was never made. They did this even after what we did to them. They could just as well have let the humans hang on those gigantic pillars, fully aware.

[–] userwithnoname 18 years ago

I hope the fact that certain scenes were creepy or disturbing didn't make them any less good...I mean i really liked some of these scenes. It's a anime and not cartoon so i hope there aren't any angry parents here. These scenes were what made the episode interesting and thoughtful...I didn't find any scenes unbearable to watch. My favorite scene was the ending with the kid playing in the snow in the post-apocalyptic world, the matrix. I thought it captured the idea of matrix and the enslavement of mankind very well...

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[–] Blackhawk1989 17 years ago

The moment the soldiers wen't charging out of the trenches towards the machine defence was remenicant of the first world war, it was kind of creepy knowing that the humans had been reduced to rushing blindly into a huge meatgrinder hoping to outgun a near limitless army.

The other disturbing moment was when the clapping politicians and generals changed into clapping skeletons, showing that they were just sealing their fate.

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[–] atoman 17 years ago

For me, it will be when right after operation dark storm, and the humans are pushing into machine territory, then there's this guy who's shouting something like "kill them all!" while his saliva was dropping everywhere like he has rabies. It seems he was quite mad..especially during the close up when his eyes were like..out of focused..

[–] liamcumber-1 17 years ago

The applauding skeleton gives me the creeps

"And thus mankind became the architect of his own demise"

[–] deepaliblue 17 years ago

when the two robots come at the united nations gathering wishing for humans and machines to get along together...that was the final drop...that prooves the cruelty of the humans and their only willing for power...
Robots were our creation..our childrem...so how can parents kill their own children...
I must recomand here the movie Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg...one of the greatest and touching movies on this theme..

A person starts living when he can live outside himself..
Einstein

[–] travelerawd 16 years ago

DEFINITELY! I was practically screaming at the screen! "No! Nooo! Don't do that! You will SO regret that!" And I felt terrible for the AI robots too...they looked happy together.