"The Red Spectacles" is probably Oshii's most literate feature work.Not only, dialogue and narrative parts are prominent over "drama" but the film contains a variety of philosophical concepts such as Free will and Determinism, mentioned through fables, like ""The Magnet and the Iron Sands"" and ""The Ogre Saved by the Fisherman"", or through classic poet-authors quotes, Shakespeare and Pushkin.