The Irony of a Life Worth Living

"Replay" is a post-apocalyptic film that makes me think of the Matrix, Alien and Terminator series.  Except that, it's in animation, and it's a simple yet deeply poignant story of a boy.

We don't know the context of this story, that is, why the world seems to have been reduced to just mother and son.  But that context actually doesn't matter.  More specifically and philosophically, it is time that doesn't matter.  The past is past, and the future is who knows what.

So in this inviolable present, then, this film asks:  What kind of life is this, confined in a metal box for a home, situated in an atmosphere bereft of oxygen?  Is this isolated life, which the mother has fashioned just to keep her son and her alive, really worth living?

The boy answers these questions, and purely out of human longing he sets out to live a different, better life.  No matter the irony and the tragedy that it's only a brief one.