古いSF映画 [English translation]

Yesterday I watched a movie that played on TV late last night.

An old Sci-Fi from overseas, set in a future world.

The world was already polluted, and without a mask your lungs would burn, in the debris of a metropolis, and the Earth was like an uncivilized planet.

The point of refuge was a bunker over 80,000 km^2; it was once called a ''shelter'', but now nobody could object to calling it a city.

A man-made sun, man-made plants - actually there was nothing not man-made, and an almost-human AI, but nobody seemed to have any problem with that.

Homicide, looting, no public order; you could only resist power with power, 50% of criminals were androids, and the protagonist detested this saturation of science.

The CG was a little bit outdated, but it was a steadily progressing mystery.

But actually the whole time, he was also an android - That was the movie's last scene...

Maybe the truth we believe in is just someone's work of fiction?

Maybe the world we see is just someone's twisted imagination?

But the reason that humans are humans, if it's something inside only us, then it's a place we can't surrender. We call that ''heart'', don't we?

A calm breeze, a still ocean, birds and bugs playing in the sky, and bright gree trees: it's the noisy turning of the season - take a look!

This inevitable scenery, don't you feel like we have to treasure it?

''The only thing unneeded in this world is humans'' - some people say that too.

It's so boring the way they sermonize it; almost like, ''We get it already!''

Experiencing it is worth so much more that explaining it, so you can't forget this.

The feeling of reassurance that resides in the flora, y'know we used to call that ''God''.

Come on, let's feel it and imagine - what else could you call this warmth?

Maybe the truth we believe in is just someone's work of fiction?

But the reason that humans are humans, if it's something inside only us, then it's a place we can't surrender. We call that ''heart'', don't we?

Well? Do you get it? This is the oldest memory of humanity, but the movie ends right here, in a virtual planetarium: ''When you leave, don't forget your protective clothing and mask, and please check the Tokyo Pollution Forecast on your handheld monitors''

Maybe the truth we believe in is just someone's work of fiction?

Maybe the world we see is just someone's twisted imagination?

But the reason that humans are humans, if it's something inside only us, then it's a place we can't surrender. We call that ''heart'', don't we?

Maybe our hometown that we loved so much has already been destroyed.

Maybe the future we've been waiting for is just someone's plotline?

The reason that humans are humans, if it's something inside of only us, you have to decide for yourself whether you can accept that.

But, hey, I watched that movie playing on TV late last night.

I know why it made me feel uncomfortable, but in the end fiction is fiction.

''What happens from now on?'' - don't even ask me that sort of thing.

Look for the answer by yourself: I'm just a nameless android.