Ghost in the Shell I & II - A nice Cyberpunk
Manga, Anime movie (must seecyberpunk)
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I've heard about
Ghost in a Shell a couple of days ago from
a website which reviewed some cyberpunk movies, I found it as a
recommended one for people who are interested into a
Cyberpunk
movie genre.
As an IT guy for quite some time I have this interest into
electronics and therefore my interest into futuristic ideas of a
merge between Technology and Bio-organisms.
I just watched the second part of the Ghost in the Shell so I
thought it will be nice to blog about it and try to make like a
short review on the movie:)
Ghost in the Shell is a Japan movie and as such, always a bit hard
to grind by an Europeans.
Thanksfully the movie plot and the acts in were a bit more sane
than
Serial Experiments Lain
I should say that
Ghost in the Shell had a good Futuristic
charge, the only thing I disliked about it that there were too many
killings and sometimes it was a bit hard to grasp what is happening
in the movie.
The movie is actually a composition of Anime. The exact genre of
the animation is actually a
cybepunk thriller
The movie has some quite a good fighting scenes, but sometimes is a
bit too slow and too much strained but if you have watched another
Japanese movies, you will already know that this also part of the
charm of the Japanese animation cinema :)
Something I didn't completely liked about the movie was some of the
movie characters (Cyborgs and robots etc.) were a bit too rigid,
but I guess since they're an AI, I can assume this is Okay.
The
Ghost in a Shell movie tells a story about a futuristic
police dealing with electronic security breaches. The main actors
in the movie are
The Major / Kusanagi,A bio-Cyborg and a pure
human, who are equipped and trained to fight technology-related
crimes (murders etc.). and consntantly battle in a real world and
simulated neural networks, servers, Operating systems, hack into
etc.
The referrence for "The Major" consntatly commented in the movie
comes due to the movie actor Kusinagi's past rank in Japanese
Self-Defense Forces.
Kusinagi is capable of superhuman feats, and bionically specialized
for her job — her body is almost completely mechanized, only her
brain and a segment of her spinal cord remain organic.
There are influence of
William Gibson probably to the movie
especially from Gibson's
Sprawl trilogy
The cyberpunk mangas under the name
Ghost in the Shell were
adapter after the movie from the 1995 again named
Ghost in the
Shell
There are two parts of the Manga films:
1. Ghost in the Shell (also known as Ghost in the Shell I) directed
by Mamoru Oshii
and 2. Ghost in the Shell II: Innocense (came out in 2004).
In Ghost of the Shell II includes the character Batou which is
actually a bio-cyborg or something and is quite a major actor and a
guy that enpowers the movie.
Further on I've read that there are also Anime Series of
Ghost
in the Shell but I still haven't checked them so I can't say
much about it.
The Japanese movie probably has turned quite a lot of interest in
the realm of Cyberpunk fans, since even a novel and video games
sprawned inspired by the film.
Even a notable best sellers and top modern movies as the
Matrix
- by the Wachowski brothers have shared about the influence of
Ghost in the Shell I in making the Matrix movie.
I believe this info will be enough for you to get interested into
Ghost in the Shell and either buy it or download it from
thepiratebay :)
The notion of the Cyberpunk presented in the movie is really,
really high! So I warmly recommend you the movie if you're into
Cyberpunk!