Combined spirit signatures are able to separate them from it and thus bring to peace which happens at cost of Mr. Because of that they’re bound to Earth’s own spirit. It turns out that the Phantoms are ghosts of dead alien race that was brought to Earth on a fragment of their planet. Their search for these pieces reveal the truth.
Ross former love interest Gray Edwards they retrieve the MacGuffin - spirit signatures that are able to negate with Phantoms in some way. With a little help of spec ops unit led by Dr. They try to understand motives and origins of the Phantoms. Use of this weapon may result in complete destruction of the planet but it doesn’t matter because “desperate times call for desperate measures”. Military led by General Hein intend to apply The Final Solution - orbital cannon to blast the enemy and everything else once and for all even though they’re not sure if that will work out. Unable to stand the offense - Mankind is forced to retreat to so-called “barrier cities” protected from the invaders by complex energy grid. Earth is invaded by alien race known as the Phantoms - energy-based creatures who feed on spirits of the living beings (Gaia). It is a film about far-reaching consequences of miscommunication, lack of desire to understand the other and unknown in general and pitiful inability to avoid conflict and find peaceful solution instead. ***īasic plot of “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” isn’t that complex.
But it was obviously too expensive gamble for the newbies to pull off without consequences.
It was trying to do too much in one sweeping move - to do commercially appealing but daring high science fiction film, prove concept of “digital actors” and make statement about possibilities of modern technologies. “The Spirits Within” forced upon itself conventional film narrative instead of finding its own groove. It was marketed the wrong the way for the wrong audience. They weren’t experienced enough in film business. Square Enix definitely underestimated drawing power of the franchise. At the end of the 90s “Final Fantasy” franchise was riding high and around the time of the release of the film it would reach even higher levels of popularity with “Final Fantasy X”. But you can’t really say it was released in a wrong time. The story of “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” is a tragedy. Now it is regarded as a daring experiment that came out too soon.
FINAL FANTASY THE SPIRITS WITHIN SERIES
Although you can see legacy of “The Spirits Within” in modern video games and blockbusters in a slightly bowdlerized form - Andy Serkis made a career out of motion capture performance, “Mass Effect” series was inspired by “The Spirits Within” design aesthetic, etc. Studio gambled on its cutting edge technology as the main selling point and that didn’t payed off. This resulted in a films crushing commercial dissapointment. Sadly, this never happened as film received rather frosty reception primarily focused on uncanny valley effects for human characters and overall weirdly conventional narrative. One of its gimmicks was meticulously designed digital actors who could potentially appear in other pictures. It is considered to be one of the first attempts at making photorealistic animated film. “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” is a CGI-animated philosophical science fiction film released by Square Pictures a film branch of the developer of the series Square Enix and co-directed by the series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi.
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