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Originally Posted by brocko

I havn't read the manga, but i assume the film follows somewhat pretty closely with a few artistic liberations here and there. So in the end,

It doesn't follow the manga very much actually lol. The plot twist is still the same, but to save time the movie completely cut out the antagonist from the manga and had that role given to the A.L.I.C.E. system, otherwise they'd have to do another movie or it would have been impossible to cover it. Most of my liking towards Tim, Katherine and Alice came from the parts that got changed/removed lol.

Originally Posted by brocko

Spoiler:

what was Medusa exactly? They were talking something about traumatised pasts and the ability to manifest imagination to reality, and how Marco Owen was immune to Medusa because of said reason?
I missed one of the lines when they were explaining it and proceeded to get lost in all their micro-babble

Spoiler for movie and some manga:

My memories of the manga is kinda muddled because I read it a year ago so I may be inaccurate at some parts. Doesn't help that I can't recall some details of the movie either =x.. Medusa is an alien lifeform/presence that landed on Earth and spread like an epidemic. An infected person who undergoes strong mental shock or has strong emotions can manifest their imagination/dreams into reality. IIRC, the things that manifest were made from the cells of the host. Alice as the first reported case was in horrible shape in the manga because of prolonged use of that power and I assume that's the same reason she died by the start of the movie, at least she had her body in tact there .

Marco was immune precisely because he didn't have any trauma/mental instability... I think.

Originally Posted by brocko

Spoiler:

Also was it Kasumi or Shizuka who fell off the cliff? I originally thought it was Kasumi who fell, but towards the end, you see Kasumi discovering her own original body which leads me to believe it was Shizuka instead (my friend whom i watched it with, thinks it was Kasumi like what i originally thought, so i don't know what to believe anymore... ) And urgh... thorns and monsters happened because of something going through her mind right (one of the twins, i don't know lol ). I don't think it was ever explained what thoughts caused the whole shitstorm or maybe i might've just missed it? That kid, i think his name was Tim is still going to die of Medusa right? I don't think they ever found a cure for Medusa

Spoiler for movie:

It was Kasumi who fell and Shizuku's medusa powers activated and went berserk due to her unstable mind. The thorns and monsters were all a representation of her state of mind. The thorns were her desire to be isolated, Kasumi no.2 because she wanted her alive again and the monsters her grief/despair. I can't recall the deal with the body discovery later but I remember Kasumi saying at the end how Shizuku wanted her to live on etc so I assume it's safe to say Kasumi fell in the movie as well.

Originally Posted by brocko

When you say 3D, do you actually mean 'popping out of the screen 3D', like Avatar or just your usual CG? If it was the latter then i don't think it was jarring at all, in fact i hardly noticed that they animated some of the stuff in CG, although that's pretty much a given now a days that you think about it.

Despite the questions i had, i think it was an overall pretty solid film. I didn't have much expectations going into it in the first place, but the film definitely surpassed it there

Gah, again I mixed 3D with CG. I meant CG. It was jarring to me because a lot of time I could tell whenever there is some CG used. The movement of the characters and their rendering looks different whenever the CG comes in and I found it annoying precisely because they kept switching between that and actual cel animation for the characters during action scenes.

But yeah, it was okay as a film. I just had more bones to pick with it than I would have since I knew the source, which is a common occurence with adaptations =). Though I heard one of the people in the cinema say "What did they have to be smoking to come up with that?" at the end .

I hope that helped, since I'm a bit lost myself, especially about the plot twist .