One last thing of note is the art and animation, which is also pretty good. You don’t really know who to root for or against because everyone’s motivations come from a reasonable place. From here, the film is really great at showing sympathizing characters. The film analyzes a system that is a supposed benefit to society and how it affects normal people like Oba. It’s ironic seeing a society with a better healthcare system still fail to care for the public. A select few from the upper ranks of the Inside society – an area secluded from the barren wastelands of the Outside – are given more preferential treatment. Human Lost attempts to portray a utopian society that is flawed and dystopic.
There are various pros and cons to a life without death or illness, and the addition of the Lost beings demonstrate the severity of the consequences. After meeting Yoshiko, he realizes the importance of mortality for himself. It’s something that Oba wrestles with himself constantly over. The core conflict is when humans decide to mess with this rule and overextend their lives to immortality. In the film’s case, death proves that you’re human and that there’s an end to life. It leaves us with the impression that the future humanity has been working towards may not be as hopeful as we think. I appreciate when sci-fi films leave us with some food for thought after we’ve left the theater. Like many science fiction films, Human Lost asks the age-old question: what does it mean to be human? Drawing from its source material, death plays prominently as a theme with the film’s story and its main character (who has the same name as Dazai’s protagonist in No Longer Human). All the while, an enemy seeks to undo the actions of S.H.E.L.L. He later meets Yoshiko Hiiragi – the Second Applicant – who helps him in his ordeal. Having also transformed himself, he’s able to retain his humanity and becomes the Third Applicant – a rare specimen seen as a savior for humanity. A young man named Oba Yozo loses his close friend when he turns into a beast called a Lost. The S.H.E.L.L (Sound Health Everlasting Long Life) medical system helps society by inserting nano-machines into every Tokyo citizen, healing wounds and resurrecting people back to life – albeit at a risky cost. In the year 2036, Japanese society has evolved their lifespan by removing all remnants of death and disease.
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