The Final Fantasy: The Spirts Within is a classic Intellect versus Brute strength story line. The Main girl and Cid (her mentor) are searching for the cure to combat the ghost like invasion force that is destroying earth. The cure is found in Life and are refereed to as spirits. While all of this is going on the army general wants to shut them down. He wants to destroy the ghost invasion team by force, with an experimental cannon that can destroy the Earth's Life energy. For most of the movie it seem both try to do what they feel is right. However the General goes crazy with his lust for power. In the end you want to root for the spirit hunters, but will they find all in time?