Tuesday 28 July 2015

Tetsuo's Manhood: What Akira Has to Say About Masculinity


Akira is awesome, this has been a well accepted idea for some time now, it's got psychics, motorcycle fights, body horror, lots of violence, it's all pretty great and all pretty macho. But is this masculinity viewed positively in this movie? Well, sort of, kind of, but also not at all.