Ghost in the Shell

 When I first heard about Ghost in the Shell, I heard about the live-action movie. The trailer was just released and all I saw was backlash for it. I had not seen the trailer and didn't understand why. I then watched it and I was like, "yep, it makes sense why everyone is hating on it". They casted a white actress to play a Japanese character and the actress didn't make things better by defending her role in the movie. I lost interest in it, so I forgot about it. Then, I watched the original. 

It was great. There were so many things that made it seem like it could be made now, not in the 1990s. You can also see the influence it has on well-known and newer sci-fi movies that we have seen. One of the being the Matrix, which was inspired by Ghost in the Shell. The directors, the Wachowskis, were inspired to make their famous franchise because of the anime movie. The story about cyborgs protecting their city seems a little basic for a sci-fi movie, but the deeper meaning behind it made it better. The idea of what makes us human and how we define it is stands center stage in the movie. That was all of thought about when watching the movie. In my essay, it mostly talked about the idea of choice making us human. By talking it away, we lose our trait of what makes us human. Throughout the movie, the characters are given the choice to many things, but the robot part of them interferes with that. 

I talk about it more in my essay about the movie, but for know that is all I have. 

Down below are my notes from watching the movie:

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Introduction

Thesis

Antithesis

Synthesis

Conclusion

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Motoko

  • Cyborg

  • Mix of muscles and robotic features


Liquid to make the skin of the cyborg

  • Like Westworld


Divided in sections 


A revolution took place before the movie


Puppet Master

  • Starting to hack the brain in order to get to their ghost

  • Maybe American

  • On the Most Wanted list

  • Outdated virus 


Conscious = Ghost


The Puppet Master is teaching people to hack into cyborgs’ mind


Wearing the therm-optics that cyborgs have


The dude was hacked by the Puppet Master and is “hacked really badly”

  • Dude was programmed to think he was part of a milita, but he waas just a thug


Garbage dude

  • Was hacked by the Puppet Master

  • Simulated experience 

  • Thought he was married and had a daughter 

  • All of it was a lie

  • In order to hack the ghost of someone

  • Someone’s life memories can just be a “drop in the bucket”


Thoughts and memories are all uniquely her


She feels like she is confined 


Her thoughts had a different tone to it


Almost every sci-fi movie is very rainy 


The cyborg-woman from Megatech turned on by herself

  • Megatech is run by the government

  • No ghost found, but something else


Motoko was created by Megatech and the other cyborgs had their other parts from there


Motoko wanted to put herself in the situation before anyone dies 


She is now questioning her existence 

  • The only thing that makes her feel human is knowing that there are brain cells in her head


There are no cyborgs in Section 6


They usually communicate with their minds and thoughts


The woman found by the police is a product of the Puppet Master


The cyborg is using its own energy to activate


A memory cannot be defined, but it can defined mankind


“Modern science or philosophy cannot tell us what life is”


Project 2501

  • Living, thinking thing created in the sea of information


Destroy the cyborg for instruction


I feel like Motoko is the first of her kind

  • First of a really advanced cyborg


Dr. Willis

  • American

  • Worked with Datia


The project was created before the puppet master began its hacking


They were trying to get Project 2501 aka Puppet Master out of the possession of the police


Batou doesn’t care about killing people even if they are not the person


Notes 

  • Inspired the Wachowskis (creator of the Matrix) 

  • Set in 2029 

  • The entity in her body is both her and the Pupper Master

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