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I hope that you take these only as suggestions.
The intro is one instance of a throughline in the film.
Notice several "representations of reality" during the course of the film, e.g. the view of Tokyo during the conversation between Nagumo and Tsuge, the missile's camera view, the Central SOC airspace map, reflections during the JSDF deployment scene, Tsuge's UN Labor virtual view, etc.
and a few instances in which human pilot input and Labor mechanical output is highlighted e.g. JSDF Labor's head mirroring its pilot's head input, an Ingram's head camera surveying the situation at Misawa, etc.
Noa is testing a Labor within a virtual representation of reality, herself wearing a VR headset, and the Labor (depicted in the intro as stripped down to its basal, skeletal-like frame) interpreting her inputs with an approximation of human movement/locomotion.

"While receiving the benefits of war, [people] hide the truth behind the TV screen, forgetting that they're merely at the rear lines...
...or rather, pretending to forget."

"Wars have always been surreal."

"From here, the city almost seems like a mirage."
"Even if it is an illusion, there are those who accept it as reality and live in it. Or are those people just illusions to you, too?"

Not every such scene says the same thing, but they all help contribute to the final conclusion.
We can more easily pretend to forget and engage in hypocrisy by distancing ourselves from reality (not just virtually).
Tsuge and Arakawa (and Oshii) are ideologically, but not practically aligned in their wish for a punishment upon those who pretend to forget.

2. After the first blimp goes down, the conversation between Arakawa and Gotou in the car mentions that they're not sure if the two remaining blimps have the "real thing", but no one is about to take that risk. "Ultima Ratio" is often translated as "last resort", and is often short for "The Last Resort of Kings and Common Men"
- that is, "war".

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>2025>patlabor still reigns supreme as the best mecha show ever madeHow did they do it?

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>patlabor still reigns supreme as the best mecha show ever made
How did they do it?