The artwork and design is sleek and clean, full of fascinating detail and extreme motion, and the slightly choppy movement is nicely incorporated into the style of the film. In the HD presentation of the film, these digital images reveal their pre-HD origins. It’s more of a hybrid, enhancing the hand drawn images with digital effects and using actual computer animation to imagine the visual displays of view screens and virtual surveillance. The hand drawn tradition of anime gets computerized boost in this production from Studio I.G., though not in the way the CGI would revolutionize the animation industry. Some of the source material must have been lost in his condensation of the complicated story-it runs a swift 83 minutes-and the existential leaps become a bit heady, but what remains makes for a dynamic science fiction mystery. He dives headlong into the collision of material world and virtual world.
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Oshii had previously directed episodes of the Patlabor series and the two feature film spin-offs, both about the cops who take on the threats to and from technology in the near future. It belongs, in its own way, to the same conceptual universe as Blade Runner with its questions of what defines being human in a world of great technological potential, and it anticipates ideas explored in The Matrix films, which was in part inspired and informed by anime.
More than twenty years after it debuted, Ghost in the Shell is still prescient in its own way. Infamous for breaking through the most impregnable firewalls and hacking sophisticated government and private databases, he’s now hacking people, rewriting memories and planting desires and motivations like they were programs. Her body is almost entirely artificial, a weapon in and of itself with optical camouflage technology, and her team includes the enhanced Batou, a loyal partner with a long history, and Togusa, who eschews most technology-the very reason she wants him on the team, especially as they take on a mysterious hacker known as The Puppetmaster. Major Motoko Kusanagi, simply called Major for most of the film, is the leader of an elite strike team in Section 9, a security division in the Japanese government of “the not too distant future” that monitors cyberthreats, treason, and other government agencies. Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow and recalling Blade Runner and the earlier anime hit Akira, Oshii’s dazzling science fiction work mixes adventure, mystery, and metaphysics in a future where humans are routinely augmented with bionics and electronic implants, and then follows it into the next evolutionary step. Ghost in the Shell (Japan, 1995) (Anchor Bay, Blu-ray Steelbook) – Mamoru Oshii’s cyberpunk thriller was the first Japanese anime created for the international market and it became the biggest animated import in the US in years.
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