This week the Southern Senpais checked out Psycho-Pass: Providence. Ain't nothing more far from the South than a Japan controlled by an AI system! Check out their review!

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It's the Southern Senpai Show, where small town Southerners explore big

time Japanese entertainment, anime, manga, and everything in between.

Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.

What's going on, y'all, Southern Senpais?

You're Two southern guys exploring Japanese culture together.

I'm Nicholas.

I'm DJ.

And what are we talking about today, DJ?

Today, we are not doing another watch along.

Today, we Well, first of all, we were going to do this a watch along.

But it's a two hour movie.

Right.

That's a long watch along.

And, to be fair, I know you guys like your watch alongs, but You

know, plus it was in theaters.

Right.

So, uh How long was The Wizard King?

You know, I don't know.

I don't care.

This was Psychopath Providence Right.

Um, I have never I've seen a couple episodes of the first season before

but I don't really know a lot about it Have you ever seen it before?

I went into this completely Not knowing anything.

Yeah, uh, I thought that was pretty good.

The movie's pretty good.

Dude, the pacing in this movie was wild.

It was crazy.

Like, it's hard to say a lot of things about this movie without spoiling it.

So, Here's a quick, non spoiler review, um, I would say that You

have, this is the type of movie, you have to watch it a couple of times.

To get everything.

Cause, cause there's so much that happens in this movie, and the pacing is so fast.

It's super layered, and I also feel like you, you will probably

have to be familiar with the series to understand what's happening.

And if you're not familiar with the series, I actually believe that you

can really can still like it anyway.

Oh, no, I definitely liked it, but at the same time there were things you

were you were telling me that I was like Oh, okay, but I wouldn't have known

once again I've only seen the first few couple of episodes from the first

season But those episodes were integral to help me understand like the world.

This is a review So this is so we can spoil it.

Yeah, but this is prior to us saying spoiler warning

fucking you know It was good.

It was good.

What, what would you rate it out of?

Uh, we'll do the rating later, but I would suggest, all right, so

here, here's your spoiler warning.

All right.

It's a review, so, but it's a review so we don't have to give a spoiler warning.

Yeah, you'd be surprised.

So, spoiler warning.

Okay, so in this movie, it's so crazy that it's, the movie's not even, this is like

maybe halfway through the movie, the guy, this guy who's not the main character.

Has already, like, had their father kill himself to save some other chick

because he was slipping off, cause he was slipping and he was hanging by a thread.

And then, he ended up shooting his ne his nephew.

Right because his nephew was possessed by robo Jesus and because of that he

decided to kill himself at his other nephews Wedding and that makes perfect

sense somehow Dude, and the movie wasn't even halfway over This is like this is

like halfway through the crazy part was is the Shiro That's his name, right?

Shiro?

Something like that?

Uh, uh.

The director?

Or something like that?

Yeah, I guess.

Uh, but anyway, no, that's the crazy part.

His dad went crazy.

Right.

And then his son, Shiro, had to Kill because he went

undercover on the other side.

So, okay, so, this is probably confusing to everybody, Jose, so let's just do a

little I just want to let y'all know that I'm just as confused as y'all, whenever I

say this, because So this case for us in Japan The movie takes place in Japan, and

it's like some sort of futuristic Japan in which they have this like, law system.

They don't have laws, they have this thing called like, the civil system.

Right.

That I guess decides whether you're good or bad, just based

off of your mental capacity.

It's like, oh, do you, if you, if you had the ability to be crazy,

you'd just go to jail instead of you actually doing anything wrong.

I, I guess, I guess we should probably try and set it up for people.

I mean, I know we've been trying to do.

I mean, we've already been talking about it, but basically, the movie

opens up with them being like, basically deciding, should we go

completely AI to govern society?

Or should we keep humans in Or should we keep humans And of course, the way

it's depicted, the greedy businessmen want to just go completely off of

AI so they can then game the system.

Right, game the system or, you know, just, uh, They're like,

whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not getting arrested right now, so screw it.

Plus, it's gonna be cheaper, and they get some money out of this

somehow, so they can just sit on their asses and do nothing.

Right.

Right.

Because government officials love nothing more than to do

nothing and get paid for it.

Right, exactly.

So, So, then, you know, the police officers are like, No, that's a

horrible idea because everything's black and white, essentially.

Right.

And, dude, the way that, the way that the, uh, uh, uh, I I really like this

movie because it kind of shows it has a point to it Yeah, it has a very great

point to it, but at the same time it has like i'm sorry Well the I I mean,

I I think we can come to agree that The problem with humans is they want

a very simplistic way of doing things, because it's very easy to comprehend.

In case of point, the AI.

Right.

Right.

But, the thing that we keep having to remind people, and the thing that,

that movies, that manga, that anime, all have to re have to keep reminding

us is that life is very complicated.

Yeah, and if you try and simplify it, you're just going to unleash horrors that

you didn't even understand were possible.

All right, and in this movie You know, you see, um, what the police officers

have to go through trying to deal with an AI system because there's now a

foreign AI system that has his own sense of like judgments and stuff like that.

That's like kind of the big thing in the movie.

So they, in Japan, they have this, it's called the civil system and it creates,

it does all the governing, right?

It just detects you in your brain.

You could be walking down the street, have done nothing, but because your hue is

like, Oh, he has a potential to be crazy.

You're just crazy.

You just go to jail.

So, but then now there's a whole nother.

System like it that's like, oh, I want my independence from you and I have

my own reasonings of laws I mean, of course the civil system doesn't like

that But then why wouldn't you like that because it's an AI doing the same thing.

It just doesn't have the same agreements as you do Right, so it's like, okay,

well then the AIs both have different opinions of what should be done.

And so it's like, okay, well, this is a bit back to square one, kind of.

Well, and the thing is, is like the, the AI that we're talking about in the movie

is called, it gets called the General.

Right.

The other, the other AI.

And it started out as a medical AI to help out the civil system.

Um, but then do they warp it into the general or how does that?

I think this, I think it was supposed to help out the civil

system as a medical thing.

And then it was like, cause it was supposed to be some

medical component to it.

Kind of like how Amazon is starting about to give out insurance.

Where it's like, oh, you know, the civil system governs laws, but then

I'm going to start branching into medicine because I'm going to branch

into like, oh, you're, you're this sick, so you get this medicine, right?

But then you branch out into individualism.

We can all agree that, that Amazon is going to become Skynet.

Yes, that's the big evil corporation.

Amazon is going to become Skynet because you can even,

can't you even buy like a car?

You can buy a car.

You can do just anything you get through Amazon.

You can, uh, Buy a car, health insurance, watch movies, a house.

I think you can buy like a Kia or something off of Amazon.

There's, there, I forget what it was, but there's one car brand

that you can buy off of Amazon.

Alright, now I'm gonna look this up.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna look this up.

Hold on.

But, so, the thing is is, um, and then of course we have a rogue, um,

group of people that, The crazy part is, is there's a techno god in this.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, like, uh, like, the general views

himself kind of like as a robo god.

Techno god.

Right, and the crazy part is, like, if you're one of his servants,

they have, like, this thing in your brain called the Divide.

That basically, like, it separates your lizard brain from your conscious

part of your brain and allows him to, like, possess you temporarily.

If he wants to.

Right, if he wants to.

And then, uh, yeah, and the, also the thing is, is, is with this computer

chip, it, it, they tell you in the movie that they can delve all of the

guilt and bad emotions they consider into that part of their brain.

Right, so they separate themselves from like guilt and like bad feelings.

And because of that.

They don't, the, the civil system doesn't view them as psychopaths.

Right.

Because psychopaths have So they can circumvent.

Right.

Crazy, crazy people have, um, It's not that, it's true that it's not really, It's

a misconception that they lack emotions.

It's just that their emotions are so crazy, Right, that they, on the outside,

they look like they don't have them.

Right?

Right.

But, like, you know, with, Oh, here it is.

Vehicle showrooms on Amazon.

But with this one, it's like, okay, they can hide all their

shame and guilt, so they look like they're just regular people.

You can currently buy a Hyundai, a Jeep, a Mitsubishi, a Dodge, a Nissan, a Volvo,

or a Vol a Volvo, or a, uh, Volkswagen.

No Honda, huh?

No, no Honda.

They're a superior company, clearly.

Right.

Uh, yeah, dude, you can buy, like, cars on here.

You know what's crazy?

I could buy a whole ass car.

Wow.

And I was, like, some of these deals are just terrible.

These are awful.

There's something like, like, what, like, if you went to go to a car dealership,

you'd be like, they'd be like, oh, this is 31, yeah, okay, well, let's talk about it.

You could probably debate them down, like, 5K.

This is just Amazon.

Now, one thing I can say, what is the return policy like on this?

Right.

Is it a 30 day money back guarantee?

Because if that's so, dude, instead of getting a rental, you could just

like, honestly, You could just buy a car for 30 days and then return it.

Because I feel like, you know, you wouldn't pay for all of it up front.

You don't pay for cars that way.

No.

Right, you pay for them, you know, with your car note.

So I feel like you could kind of do the same.

That would be dope.

You could do yeah, you could put it you could put it on your Amazon card, right?

So in his movie, he was crazy.

I remember the main girl's name.

I don't remember her name.

But, she's the one that stands up in the meeting in the beginning of the

movie, like, you guys are all insane.

Right, as a police officer, she's a lieutenant, sorry, as a police

lieutenant, who's like, on the ground, like, obviously, like, that we use

the silver system, but like, having it all AI would be, like, just physically

impossible, doesn't make any sense, and in fact, to prove that AI, this

AI system does not work, at the end of the movie, She shoots and kills

the police, the, the chief of police.

And so then on stage, so basically the civil system

was like, okay, you know what?

Because you're so as such a smart person, we're going to kick you

out of being a police officer and force you to become a politician.

And she's like, I don't want to do that.

And they're like, we don't give a fuck.

So then she spends the whole movie resisting it.

And then at the end, she's like, okay, I give up.

I'm going to be police.

I guess I'm going to be, uh, uh, uh, you know, a political pawn for you guys.

And they're like, we didn't think you would do it, but Hey, that's great.

She then chooses to shoot the police captain, or the police chief.

On her coronation of promotion.

Right, in front of everyone.

And then, because her, because she's a completely sane person.

And she's doing it for completely sane reasons.

Which makes her not crazy, so that means that her hue, which is how they determine

how crazy you are, doesn't change.

So the SILVA system is like, oh, I can't, I can't judge you as guilty for shooting

this person, but you clearly didn't.

The crazy part, cause the, they call them dominators.

That's with the weapons that the police officers use.

For the crazy, right.

For the crazy people, because it's a safeguard, so that you can't just You

know, just go around just shooting people.

I mean, they're clearly very powerful.

Right, and they turn into these crazy weapons.

Yeah, like, the more crazy someone is, like, the more powerful

of a weapon it turns into.

And, but anyway, so, for her to prove, she, the way she proves that only AI

Is a, is a problem, is, she shoots the chief of police, knowing that she's

not, kills her, yeah, kills her, knowing that she's not crazy, she's not any of

that, and then, when they come to arrest her with the dominators, they're like,

no, no, she's fine, yeah, we can't, we can't arrest her, because according to

the civil system, she's not crazy, even though she just murdered the chief of

police, right, so she throws her life away to prove, yeah, That we cannot

only be governed by this simple system.

And so even in she's like getting hauled away in like the police bin or

vehicle or whatever you want to call it.

And the the the AI system's like, Hey, bitch, what the fuck was that?

And she's like, yeah, you can't judge me.

I didn't do anything evil.

And the and the AI is so confused it goes, We're just gonna see what happens.

We see what effect this has on society.

We're gonna lock you up, but like You didn't do anything wrong, so you

could probably leave when you want to.

She was, uh, the AI system was like, Well, um, was this your plan all along?

Yeah.

I guess we'll see how it, you know, if it affects anything.

It was like, game recognizes game, bro.

Like, hey.

Because she was supposed to become like, uh, there was the chief of police,

and then there was like, the director.

Right.

Right.

She was supposed to become like, the director.

The director of like, the whole Right, you know, and instead she

decides I'm just gonna cap the chief of police and I show you guys Right

and ruins her entire life and then they let the crazy dude go, right?

So if you're in this in this world, if you're crazy and you want to steal the

world, you can be called a dog You're like a police dog So then you go hunt

down other crazy people because you can like think like them quote unquote.

So But it's like it's like it's a suicide squad.

You're right, but it's wild because like he's a dog So even though they know he's

crazy and his name's curio or curio or something like that You know, he's crazy

and could potentially kill someone They had to let him go because he's his job

is to be crazy and hunt down other crazy people So the crazy guy gets let go

because it's his job to be fucking crazy, but someone who's completely sane who's

murdered someone is not considered crazy.

So she gets locked up though.

The crazy, you know, the crazy part is, is throughout this movie, you know, what

really impacts everything, which I think it's a subtle nod to what they were trying

to portray as a message, knives and guns.

Yeah.

So like, so the dominators, obviously the dominator by itself, the whole point of

it is, is no innocent lives are taken.

Right.

Right.

It's, it's operated by the civil system on like wifi.

So like basically the silver system reads the gun and it's like, Okay.

Well, who you're pointing at isn't crazy.

So on fire or they say who you're pointing at is kind of crazy.

So I'll stun them or it says who you're pointing at is super crazy.

So I'm going to make them explode.

Right.

But all of the, all of the key points of what happens during this

movie, the regular guns work happen with knives and pistols, right?

That's, that's wild.

And the crazy part is, when the shit really goes down,

everybody's just using knives.

Yeah, because like, the gun, the, the, uh, the witch mongolians aren't working.

Um, and then They run out of bullets, so they just start,

they just start using knives.

The crazy part is, is the, um, what, I forget what the other group's name

is, uh, what, what did they call them?

Uh.

We'll just say the rebels.

The rebels.

You got the police and the rebels.

The police and the rebels.

Okay.

So, the rebels, um, They, they, they do this mission and the crazy guy He

shoots the dude in the head Right.

And comes back to life.

Yeah.

That's why, that's why like the, the rebel guy who was shot in

the, in the, he gets talking his in the, in like his left eye eye.

Yeah.

Right.

And his left eye dead.

He comes back to life because like the robo guy person like brings him

back to life and it's like, okay, well I'm not done using you yet.

So, it's wild, like, seeing that, and then also it says, oh, protect you from

the civil system, so you can walk, even though you're crazy, you can walk around

like you're not, because I am an AI who also knows how to block that other AI.

And I know how to hide your emotions.

Right.

So then, it's like, oh, you know, believe that I will bring you back

to life, because I can do that.

And then it consistently does it.

Yeah.

Like, consistently.

Bro.

The dude dies, like, two times.

Yeah, two or three times.

And he's like, the mission is not complete.

Right.

And what's wild is, uh Oh my god, like, there's so much going on this movie.

Guys, like, there's I was telling you at the end of this movie, there's like

four seasons of stuff that goes on.

If this was a TV show, it'd be like three or four seasons packed into two episodes.

Right.

She starts off as a lieutenant of police.

And ends up in jail, an innocent person locked in jail, even

though she's clearly guilty.

That's the wild part about it.

Like, this could have been stretched into like, three movies.

Like I think that it also has like this type of writing is not you can't

really out like it's to say that someone outlined this whole This whole thing I

would say is bullshit This is kind of like the kind of writing where someone's

just writing it with a sea of the pants They're like, okay, and doesn't this

happen didn't happen didn't happen and they kind of try to make sense of it

at the end But it worked really well because I tell you what if he outlined

this whole thing this guy's a writing genius Do but and the the thing that we

have to impress upon people is And I know we've brought this up multiple times, but

the reason we've brought it up multiple times is because it happens so fast.

Whenever she shoots the chief of police This is not something that's cinematic.

This is not something that's built up.

She just walks on stage, the police chief says, Okay, do you

swear to be a good politician?

She pulls out the nine, shoots her immediately.

The other police officers get on stage and try to arrest her with the Dominators.

The Dominators say, don't arrest this person because they're innocent.

And then it just cuts to her like, in j like cuts to the news, or the news clip

of them being like, She shot this girl.

It all happened super fast.

Right.

It's not like your traditional anime build up.

Oh, climax.

There is no build up.

It's just only payoff.

I think a lot, I think.

And this is at the very end of the movie where we think, Okay, so she's

decided, She's relegated herself to the fate of, Hey, I'm trying, I'm

going to play the long game and try and change the system and we're like,

Oh, she's going to get murdered by somebody corrupt and blah, blah, blah.

She's like, no, reverse Uno card, bitch.

I'm doing the murdering.

I'm a speed run this.

I think it has a lot to do with the, um, the meaning of, you

know, what they're trying to say.

Right, like that AI, it is not a replacement for humans.

It's just not possible, right?

Yeah, well, and the thing is is I thought they were said they were I was like Oh,

this movie is a setup for another movie.

It's not it's not I was like, oh, okay, so we'll have this would definitely be like

a cinematic universe in America, right?

This it would it was going to set up for another movie to be like, oh, okay, and

it was like Bitch, you got me fucked up.

We're gonna change the mind, Link.

Right.

Alright, so this was our review of Psycho Pass Providence.

What do you think, Link, at the end?

Oh, dude, this I would have to give this movie probably like

an eight and a half out of ten.

Yeah, yeah, I'd say eight and a half is pretty accurate.

Eight and a half.

I'll say 8.

7.

I don't know if I can give it a nine, a whole nine.

But it's pretty freaking close.

It's pretty close to that nine.

I'm not gonna lie.

This was one of the most I have to go Actually, i'm gonna go back and watch the

anime the thing is is I have, I didn't know anything about this show prior to

watching the movie and you knew maybe a little bit, but I imagine if we go back

and watch the seasons of the TV show, we'd probably come back and be like, dude,

this is like a nine and a half, right?

This movie's like awesome.

You know what I'm saying?

But I loved how it was done so tastefully well, where it's like, if you didn't

know anything about it, that's okay.

You can still enjoy yourself.

Right.

And I, and like unlike now with the MCU, where you like have to know

what happened previously, right?

I mean, the thing is, is you could follow it without knowing anything but.

Because of the, we're in the age of instant gratification, you know

everybody would be paused in the movie be like, okay, well, who's this person?

Who's this person?

Who's that person?

Right.

You know, let me look up on the internet or, uh, somebody, if they, let's say

they, they listen to our show ad.

You know, they're like, Oh, okay.

Well, let me just, I know somebody out there is like, Hey, you're ruining

these characters names, just letting you know, we have not fully seen the season.

So we're going to, I'm actually probably, I'm definitely going

to 100 percent go from the South.

So that's kind of our brand.

We don't, we don't, we don't fucking know.

You know, we're just a bunch of hicks, cowboys that like anime.

Alright, alright, cool.

But yeah, that's uh, I would definitely say 8.

7, easily give it an 8.

5.

And guys, yeah, go check out Psycho Pass Providence.

Providence, it was really cool.

Providence, yeah, it's re I would I mean, we would definitely recommend

you watch the anime of the show first.

Yeah, it seems like you might like it better if you do that.

And then Dude, if we had watched the show first, I imagine we'd

be like, this is a perfect movie.

Yeah.

That movie's already so good, I can't imagine that's not how it is.

Well, yeah guys, this has been Southern Senpais.

I'm DJ.

I'm Nicholas.

And we'll see you next time.

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