Review of Psycho-Pass: The Movie
Terrible. Not that terrible but still terrible. This is why I hate anime films especially already having a backstory behind it. They don't know whether they should develop their existing characters further or shoehorn new ones. Case in point, the black guy antagonist is basically discount Shogo Makishima except he preaches a different line of shit, I am not sure why they have to reference western literature so many times. Nothing happens here, basically, Sibyl has been introduced into another country, literally ask the same exact question as the first season. You thought they were going to explore how a dictatorship can take advantage of SibylSystem? No. Nothing, basically, same conclusion as last time. "IF IT WORKS DON'T FIX IT", I am not sure what to say here, the concept is to keep everyone emotionally stable as a fundamental perception of criminality is just really stupid. Stress from work overwhelming you?
Time to take a happy pill or die. I am deviating and digressing but the point is, if you are just going to show how it literally works every time and people are happy over it, what is the morally grey question being asked here? Repressing individuality is dismissed yet again as only the minority of them complains about which I find highly questionable if that is the case in this world, then whatever complains you have against the system should be dismissed because most people in this world have zero problems against it.
On the flimsy story and characters, in which finally, Akane and Kougami reunite, only to literally exchange words about how no character development has happened to each of them, apparently she thinks Kougami helping to overthrow a dictatorship is breaking the law, I have no idea how her brain works but I will accept it as her being a rigid bureaucrat and thinking that the Sibyl System as flawless. It was as intimate as it got as the backbone (characters) of what made Psycho Pass work has been replaced by this dictator subplot with an extremely unsatisfying conclusion with a bunch of characters no one cares about.