UNIVERSE FUHRER BRADLEY CHRIST TALK ABOUT IRONY). Then the film actually does an amazing job showing how the people are living, how people got dragged into things they didn’t want (such as building rockets for intrepid people and getting swept up in the mob tactics by the rising Nazi party), and the opposition/ counterbalance of those who insist on leaving the conflict (like FRITZ LANG OF ALL PEOPLE IS THE ALT. ACTUAL HISTORICAL CONTEXT!Ī few throwaway lines at the beginning of the film mention the Treaty of Versailles and Germany’s surrender. Then, the action in the latter half of the film centers around the Beer Hall Putsch where Hitler attempted a coup.
Parallel scenes in the movie show the price of a bushel of apples in German marks (which people had to cart around in wheelbarrows due to inflation) and the price of a bushel in Amestrian cens. Several lines of dialogue point to the rise of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers’ Party or NSDAP) and the introduction of Jewish panic. One of the starring characters is a Romani woman with mystical powers, who agrees to help the Thule Society travel to Shamballa (which is actually Amestris, the country the world of FMA takes place in) in order to escape the degradation and persecution of her people. ‘Shamballa’ takes these comparisons and puts them directly in the forefront, setting itself in Weimar Germany in 1925 and starring Aryan characters.
#Fma conqueror of shamballa full movie sub series#
The FMA series Ishvalan genocide has been likened to the Nazis’ extermination of the Jewish and the historic persecution of the Romani (Gypsies). I want to quickly address some of the themes the film approaches that the manga and 2009 reboot ‘Brotherhood’ completely ignore, because the story beats weren’t there. ‘Shamballa’ is an incredible anime film and is a must-watch for FMA ’03 fans, but this isn’t a review. Suffice to say, ‘Shamballa’ takes on a whole different meaning when it’s viewed naively as a bizarre and random sequel to a fantastic series with an ambiguous, open ending, or a serious take on the development of nuclear weapons and socio-politics of interwar Germany. That would have been my freshman year of high school, 2007. Ten years ago I hadn’t even taken a basic Western civ history class.
Long story short: ‘Shamballa’ premiered dubbed in 2006, meaning that it’s been 10 years since I saw this film and felt the feels at the end of the original ‘Fullmetal.’ WHEW is that a long title (fitting considering the film is 1 hr 45 min in length). … “Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: The Conqueror of Shamballa,” that is.
0 kommentar(er)
