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Fantasy thriller "Attack of the Titans. The film is the first: The Cruel World ", about which the critics are mixed - a fantastic Japanese film shot on the popular manga.

History of the film

The author of the manga "Singakei no Kyojin" (in the translation from the Japanese "Attacking giant") is Hajime Isayama. He drew a comic on a post-apocalyptic theme, creating a world in which people faced the danger of bloodthirsty giants. The manga was released in 2009. She immediately gained great fame. On its basis, an anime series was created, four computer games in the popular Japanese genre of "visual novel" and browser game. In 2012 it became known that the manga are going to be screened.

The plot of the movie

It's a bit different from the comics. The changes that were made in the plot do not affect the key points of the manga. They were made to make the picture more dramatic. Fantasy «Attack of the Titans. The film is the first: The Cruel World ", reviews of which were more positive, shows the audience the history of the alternative Earth of the XIX century. Human civilization was destroyed by suddenly appeared giants. They reached more than a hundred meters in height (in manga their growth was about 60 meters) and were mentally feeble. Titans were cannibals - they attacked human settlements and devoured the inhabitants. The earthly army was powerless before the onslaught of monstrous creatures - the giants regenerated at a tremendous speed. Any wound inflicted on them healed in a matter of minutes. Even the explosion could not kill the Titans. But they were not immortal. Like the hero of myths Achilles, they had a vulnerable place - the neck. When cutting the cervical vertebrae, the titans died. But their enormous growth did not allow them to approach the strike distance. Then a spatial maneuvering device was invented. The device was attached to the back. With his help you could move in the air, clinging to objects and walls.

The remnants of mankind erected three huge walls and took refuge behind them from the giants. Each wall is a special zone in which there were settlements, agricultural lands and defense forces.

Action in the fantasy "Attack of the Titans. The first film: Cruel World ", whose rating among fans of fantasy is high enough, begins a hundred years after the advent of giants. People are used to peaceful life behind the ring of huge walls. Even stories about giants are perceived as fables. The protagonist, Ehren Yeager, feels locked up in the walls and wants to get outside. Once he runs to the wall, where his friends, Mikasa and Armin try to stop him. Near the wall, they meet a patrol, and a longtime friend of the family Ehren, an officer in the army, says that the government decided to send a reconnaissance squad to the wall to find out what is happening outside and whether the danger remains. The detachment needs volunteers, and young people can join the scouts. At that moment, a giant attacked the wall. In the opening penetrate the giants and begin to kill civilians. Ehren survives with another miracle, but Mikasa perishes before their eyes.

Titans

Who they are, where they came from and why - in the first part of the picture this is not said. But the long-awaited continuation of the film released in the autumn gives answers to many questions. The spectator learns the secret of the origin of the giants who destroyed humanity. However, the creators of the fantasy "Attack of the Titans" do not disclose all the maps - much remains behind the scenes. In particular, the viewer did not know how the arrest of Eren's parents ended and who brought him up.

In the first film, the titans are shown by huge idiot creatures of the female and the male, who wander aimlessly in search of food. People are a delicious extraction of giants. But what they eat in the absence of human victims is unknown.

Among the giants there are children. They also hunt humans. In addition to ordinary giants, there are giants of incredible size. One of them destroyed a part of the outer wall, behind which in the world and peace for a hundred years people lived and inside penetrated the giants, carrying destruction and death.

Kill the giants is very difficult. They have an incredible speed of regeneration of the body. Only a blow to the base of the neck can destroy the monster. At the same time, he literally melts, leaving behind him a foul, smelly mass.

main characters

The main actors of the film are young people who have just emerged from adolescence.

Ehren is the main character of the film. Has an incredible ability that will help in the fight against the Titans.

Mikasa is the childhood friend of Eren, in love with him. A quiet and romantic girl who dreams of seeing the sea one day.

Armin is a friend of Eren and Mikasa, a physically weak but very smart young man.

Fantasy «Attack of the Titans. The first film: The Cruel World "- reviews of the audience

It would seem that fans of the manga should appreciate the work done by the filmmakers on the film adaptation of the comics. But some of them did not like that the protagonists of the picture were not sufficiently similar to their prototypes from the manga. Perturbation caused the absence of some comic characters in the film.

As for the audience who are not familiar with the manga story, here the reviews are mostly positive. The creators of the film filled it with spectacular and bloody scenes of the Titans' attack on the cities. They look dynamic and large. But with the appearance of the giants, not everything turned out well. They must cause fear, but the first thing that the viewer feels when looking at naked monsters is disgust.

"Attack of the Titans. The first film: Cruel World "- reviews of the film critics

The main discontent was caused by special effects, which, in the opinion of reviewers, could have been made better. However, a simple spectator is unlikely to notice any flaws in the visual effects of the picture. But the original scenario of criticism was appreciated positively. Despite some plot discrepancies and the predictability of individual moments, the story told in the film is of profound interest. The creators of the film filled it with many semantic allusions: a destroyed wall, cannibals-giants, revenge for a deceased friend.

Is it possible to call the successful adaptation of the popular Japanese manga? Here everything depends on whether the audience is familiar with the original. Fans of the manga consider the film a failure, the rest of the story about the opposition of mankind and the titans fell to taste.