2142: Pollution and climate change wiped out most of Earth's population. Ecoban city is built to withstand this. Suppression results in revolt. A childhood couple find each other as adults o... Read all2142: Pollution and climate change wiped out most of Earth's population. Ecoban city is built to withstand this. Suppression results in revolt. A childhood couple find each other as adults on opposing sides.2142: Pollution and climate change wiped out most of Earth's population. Ecoban city is built to withstand this. Suppression results in revolt. A childhood couple find each other as adults on opposing sides.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
- Zed
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- Jay
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- Troopers
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- Commander Locke
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- Goliath
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- Maya
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- Blacksmith
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- Dispatcher
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- Senior Adjutant
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- Cade
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- Woody
- (English version)
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- Troopers
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- Shua
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe island of Gibraltar is in fact Greek island Santorini (Thera), as seen in the end sequence when we see its map.
- Quotes
Jay: How long is it been raining? Forever. Not forever. No. For a 100 years. They say billions of people once lived on the earth. And the temperatures rose. The great cities fell. And this rain came. This terrible toxic rain. Our ancestors saw it coming. The catastrophe. They built Ecoban. The first living city genetically engineered to survive in a poisonous environment. Ecoban became our refuge. Our salvation. Survirors came by the thousands begging to be let in. But our ancestors turned them away. Left them to die in the wasteland. The ones who survived became our workers. Mining the carbonite fields to feed our Ecoban. Diggers we call them. The diggers need us. We need them. Everybody wins. But some win more than others.
- Alternate versionsThe film has been released in numerous Western countries such as the US and Great Britain under the title Sky Blue. These versions have been slightly distorted, with the loss of two minutes of the running time compared to the original Korean cut.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MarzGurl Reviews: Wonderful Days (Sky Blue) (2016)
- SoundtracksSmack My Bitch Up
Written by Liam Howlett, Kool Keith, Ced-Gee, T.R. Love and Moe Love
Performed by The Prodigy
I rented the German dubbed version, which is quite nicely done, apart from some sentences that seem to short for genuine German conversation (our phrases are usually 20% longer than, say, English phrases ... something seemed to be missing in the dub).
The story is nice and a little mysterious, but it is very important to realize that the film tells quite a bit of it with images alone - no dialogue, no narration. Just these absolutely stunning images.
I almost screamed in joy in the scene early in the flick where Shua and Jay sit, handcuffed together, him holding a gun to her face, in front of a beautiful Christian church glass artwork in this museum ("time capsule room"), and just the image tells the audience so much (and yet so delightfully little at the same time!), making this a scene without any dialogue was the best the film makers could have done.
There is so much imagery. They really figured out how to blend excellent Gothic and oriental architecture with the industrial cyberpunk setting of the slums around the city Ecoban, and they made not only every second of it count, no, they give you gratuitous flights and motorcycle drives through the wonderful, desolate landscape that you sometimes wish would never end.
All in all, a film with a definite 10/10 visuals, a 9/10 story, German dub quality 8/10, a soundtrack that's easily a 10/10, and subtle but decent sound effects, 7/10.
The best movie, in my opinion, that I have seen this year.
- public-32
- Aug 21, 2004
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $9,750,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $74,663
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,022
- Jan 2, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $197,221
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1