DOOM- Il Boom di un Malato Mentale

DOOM- Il Boom di un Malato Mentale (literally "DOOM- the Boom of a Mentally Disturbed Person", where Boom is an expression referring to the Italian Economic Miracle of the 60s) is a movie by Goro Miyazaki loosely based on the video game series DOOM.
It's the last Ghibli movie before Hayao Miyazaki's death. 
== Premise ==
It's technically a fusion between DOOM (the 2016 video game) and the similarly-titled movie "Il Boom" (1963), where a building contractor sells his eye for wealth. Unlike the 2005 movie (and Il Boom, obviously), this is an anime movie made by Studio Ghibli and is a lot more surrealist than the 2005 movie, taking elements from "An Andalusian Dog", Metropolis and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", of which it takes the ending twist. It's also a darker twist on the Isekai genre.
It doesn't take itself too seriously, often veering into black comedy. 
It's technically a sequel to Il Boom, starring a much older Alberti who has been diagnosed with a mental disease and is living a hallucination.
== Plot ==
It's 1963. Giovanni Alberti is an Italian palazzinaro small building contractor from Rome who lives a luxurious life, however, in order to do so, he has contracted debts and loans and is, as such, broke. His wife Silvia Pirsi, whom he loved, has been recently arrested under suspicions that she's a member of a mysterious cult which worships Satan and commits human sacrifice. He doesn't believe it, as he considers the cult as being a hoax and doesn't care about occult stuff, and contracts another loan to bribe the police to free Silvia. After he cannot repay it, he throws himself out of the window in despair.
Alberti awakens in Hell. Lucifer, portrayed as a humanlike figure of white light, asks Alberti to make a pact: Alberti will give him his right eye in exchange for a second life. Alberti complies and rips off his own right eye. Lucifer then sends Alberti back to reality: the entirety of Rome has been turned into a wasteland overrun with demons. 
Alberti takes the BFG from a corpse lying on the ground, and goes to massacre demons, looking for Silvia. He eventually meets a stray child (whose name is never revealed due to the child being a construct of Alberti's mind). Said child speaks in cryptic messages, and tells Alberti that he has been transported forward in time to 2016: after 12/12/2012, the cult had caused a contact between Earth and Hell, causing demons to come to the surface, however, the cultists themselves couldn't rein in the demons and were consumed: Silvia Pirsi was the leader of said cult, and had become one with the demon Anansi, turning into the Spider Mastermind. The child helps Alberti track the Spider Mastermind, and Alberti uses his BFG to protect him.
Alberti later fights the Spider Mastermind, who is Silvia all along: Silvia actually was the leader of the cult and so twisted that she could willingly control a demon of Hell. As the fight goes on, Silvia starts talking more and more cryptically until it's revealed that she was the strongest manifestation of Alberti's subconscious hate. The boy (AKA what is left of Alberti's sanity) lets himself be murdered in order to protect Alberti from a fatal hit, which gives Alberti the time to gun down the Matermind with his BFG.
It's 1992. A much older Alberti (who is in a live-action sequence, because the anime world was used to represent his distorted mind) awakens in a manicomio, a mental asylum in Rome. All he had experiences was just some sort of weird dream he had had while in a drug-induced coma, while the psychiatrists were performing lobotomy on him. After his lobotomy miserably failed, he completely became even more insane and started calling himself "the Doomguy", obsessively mimicking the BFG's shooting and claiming to see demons. 
Post-credits, John Romero (portrayed by himself in a live-action sequence) is reading the weird notes left by Alberti, and is inspired by them to create a video game: he's shown drawing the Doomguy's image, and in the end says he'll call his new game "DOOM". 
== Trivia ==
* The idea from this movie came from when Goro Miyazaki heard about the movie "Il Boom" and confused it with the 2005 movie DOOM, and as such thought for years that the protagonist of DOOM was a Roman palazzinaro who sold his eye. 
* This is not a Doom adaptation, but an anime movie only loosely inspired by it (and which, in the end, shows what inspired the videogame DOOM). 
* The protagonist, Giovanni Alberti, is the same character as the character from Il Boom, just older and mentally disturbed. As such, the movie is a stealth sequel to Il Boom, and not connected to the video game DOOM at all.
* This movie got a 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, the first video game movie to do so.
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