Alita: Battle Angel
A review
Recently, I went with my daughter to see an Action/Adventure move called, Alita: Battle Angel. Most people who like a good story and less action might balk at seeing such a movie. Surprisingly, however, the story was about much more than fight scenes and the dystopian world of our planet in the future.
Dr. Ido, a scientist, and doctor who repairs human bodies with mechanical parts finds the remains of a young girl whose body had been destroyed, but whose brain was still intact. He took her to his office, rebuilt her, and jump-started her brain by feeding her biological nutrients that humans regularly digest.
At first, since she had been non-functional for over three hundred years, she was like a child discovering the world for the first time. As in most cases with a child, Dr. Ido wants her to learn about living in life on the wasteland of a planet they lived on, which is controlled by an evil overlord. Alita at first finds the world a bit overwhelming but realizes that she has the incredible strength and ability of a machine body.
Although her prowess as a fighter increases day-by-day with the help of flashbacks to her previous life, where she was a trained assassin, she learns she has feelings as well. She encounters a human young man named Hugo, with whom she develops a friendship, then an emotionally involved relationship. As their relationship progresses, she realizes she has feelings for Hugo, and eventually asks him, “Doesn’t it bother you to have a relationship with someone who is half-machine?” He answers, “You’re the most human person I know.” After this, they kiss.
Alita is faced with the animosity of other human/machine hybrids but proves to be a worthy opponent. The tragedy comes as Hugo is killed by a hybrid that hates Alita. Hugo is outfitted with a mechanical body and continues to live. However, while trying to escape those who are after him, he falls to his death. Alita says, “I love you,” as she watches him fall to his death.
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