Directed by Mamoru Oshii
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
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Netherlands12 Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 
South Korea Pusan International Film Festival 
Portugal Fantasporto Film Festival 
PhilippinesR-16 Eigasai (Japanese Film Festival) 2000 
Czechia Filmasia Film Festival 
Indonesia Japanese Film Festival 
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Brazil14 
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Spain12 USAR UK15 UK15 UK15 South Korea12 
Russia18+ Japan 
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Poland12 Poland12 Poland Poland12 Poland18 
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What if we merged cybernetic brains in our militarized, techno-capitalist hellscape? 😳
This cyberpunk classic was a huge influence on both The Matrix (1999) and The Fifth Element (1997), whilst in itself owing no small debt to Blade Runner (1982). Ghost in the Shell is an ode to technology, identity, collective vs. individual consciousness and boobs. Hardly surprising that it blew my mind when I was sixteen.
I shamefully admit that I don’t fully understand what was going on in this, it’s philosophy concerning the relationship between our soul, or ghost if you will, and our bodies (the shell of course), being conveyed through imagery and monologue, were a bit too mind-numbing for me.
On surface level though, this film is gorgeous, and proud of itself too. Halfway through the story the film even took a five minute detour to show us its Blade Runner-esque cityscape. I find it interesting that the film seems to be extremely fascinated with the human body and keeps forcing us to study it. Also noticable is the way Major Kusanagi, to be played by Scarlett Johansson in the American remake,…
Really glad they never made a live action american adaptation of this that would be such a bad idea
making the female lead character get naked every ten minutes is a certified male director moment
I feel so fucking smart when I watch anime
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"But now we must slip our bonds and shift to the higher structure."
On the surface of Ghost in the Shell, it appears that the "ghost" is the soul in the "shell" of the human body, but there's another distinction to be made in this reading of the film. As much as the story is about Major Kusanagi transcending her physical form, it's also about her transcending the limits of a physical form which is specifically and explicitly defined as female.
Ghost in the Shell opens with a scene of Major Kusanagi infiltrating a political target and then escaping by using her thermoptic camouflage—a method of invisibility which, among other things, requires her to be mostly naked. Stripped down to…
a prison escape movie but the prison is the body
it’s called perfect music, ever heard of it???????
midnight screening and was already sleepy so when the story started losing me it was game over. lovely animation and music :) excited to watch this a second time in like 8 months and pretend this review never happened
this is like half of a really good movie. sorry
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what seems more and more important to me here is the scene where batou and the major talk about how despite all the cybernetic advantages they have, their bodies don't belong to them, but to the corporate-police force of section 9 and the robotics manufacturers, and that if they ever decided to quit, they'd have to give back almost everything except for their brains -- this really is an insane reinvention of slavery, one that i can see happening someday. you have to 'upgrade' yourself to compete in this hyper-tech world, you make yourself more and more into a product, your body constructed and copyrighted, and so you no longer have a sense of sovereignty over yourself -- the choice…
