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Mars Express

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France · 2023
1h 30m
Director Jérémie Périn
Starring
Genre Animation, Science Fiction

Aline Ruby, a private investigator and Carlos Rivera, her android partner are drawn into a major conspiracy in their search for a missing hacker. Set amidst feverish debate about the nature of sentience and android rights, Mars Express tackles big questions in its original science fiction world.

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The film packs a big story in a small package. The noir plot really serves as a skeleton supported by heady philosophical concepts such as the nature of technology and its purpose in an advanced society. Humans protest robotic rights in the streets, pundits debate android sentience on television and the line between subservience and freedom is blurred. If all that seems a bit tropey, it’s true. Mars Express wears its influences on its sleeve. Chief among them is the cyberpunk anime classic Ghost in the Shell, also featuring techno-mysteries and androids with a tendency to wax poetic. Mars Express even features a climactic gun battle with a quadrupedal battle tank like the iconic scene in Ghost in the Shell. Mars Express’ interrogations don’t quite reach the provocative heights of Ghost in the Shell, but I do think it’s the more accessible of the two films thanks to its more concrete arguments.

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