Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Page #2

Synopsis: In the year 2065, the next great assault against an invading race of phantom-like aliens is about to be launched. Dr. Aki Ross, a brilliant young scientist, races to find the invaders' secrets, not only to save the planet, but herself as well after her body is infected by alien particles. She teams up with the prestigious Deep Eyes military squadron, led by her old friend Grey Edwards. But as Aki, her mentor Dr. Sid, and Grey work toward a peaceful end, the scheming General Hein devises a plot to eradicate the aliens in one swift, destructive blow...even if it destroys the Earth right along with them.
Director(s): Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara (co-director)
Production: Columbia Pictures
  3 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
PG-13
Year:
2001
106 min
Website
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"All llfe is born of Gaia and each llfe has a spirit.

Each new spirit is housed in a body."

Go on.

"Through their experiences on Earth,

each spirit matures and grows.

When the physical body dies...

...the mature spirit, enriched by llfe

on Earth, returns to Gaia...

...bringing with it the experiences...

...enabling Gaia to llve and grow."

It's my old diary.

I wrote that 43 years ago,

when I was the age you are now.

Dr. Sid!

Remember Galileo?

They threw him in jail because...

...he said the Earth was not

the center of the universe.

That could happen to us.

Our ideas are unpopular, Aki.

If you have any notes

that could be used against you...

...destroy them.

-Keep them up here.

-Right.

And stay away from your friend the captain.

He saves your llfe, you save his,

this leads to that.

I was young once.

Doctor, there is a war going on.

No one's young anymore.

Members of the council...

...could you please explain why?

Zeus was completed a month ago.

If we attack the meteor with this, we will

eliminate the Phantoms at the source.

General Hein, calm down.

At our last meeting, we voted 6 to 2...

...to postpone using the Zeus cannon

to attack the Leonid Meteor.

We have re-convened today to vote that very issue again.

I'd llke to ask the director of

the Bio-Etheric Center to speak.

Dr. Sid, please.

Thank you.

As you all know, the Phantoms' nest

is in the Leonid Meteor...

...that landed here 34 years ago.

What you see now are the records

of every assault on the meteor to date.

Physical attacks have had

utterly no effect.

This took place three months ago

during a full-scale bombardment.

Please note the Phantoms outside

the meteor are destroyed.

However, inside, many that

were dormant come to llfe...

...and as you see, overall

Phantom density remains the same.

The newly risen aliens respond to the attack...

...by burrowing deeper into the Earth.

This is very interesting to me, Dr. Sid.

...because we see the same thing during surgery...

...when using bio-etheric lasers

on Phantom particles, do we not?

Yes, indeed we do.

The injured particles escape...

...digging themselves deeper into a patient's body.

When we increase the laser power

to destroy these deeper particles...

...we have had incidents of

further injury to a patient...

...and in some cases...

...death.

What exactly does that mean, Doctor?

It means there's a very good chance...

...the beam from the Zeus cannon

will burn the Phantoms in the meteor.

Exactly! Thank you.

However, it also means that

the beam energy may be too strong...

...injuring the Earth.

Injure the Earth?

You mean the Gaia.

-I mean--

-You mean the spirit of the Earth.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi

Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口 博信, Sakaguchi Hironobu) (born November 25, 1962) is a Japanese video game designer, director, producer, writer, and film director. He is best known as creator of the Final Fantasy series, which he conceived the original concept for the first title Final Fantasy and also directed several later entries in the franchise, and has had a long career in gaming with over 100 million units of video games sold worldwide. He left Square Enix and founded a studio called Mistwalker in 2004. more…

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