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Ghost in the Shell’s Weirder, Unloved Sequel Is Actually Great
Innocence and its dreamlike CGI have returned in 4K.
In the first film, protagonist Motoko Kusanagi, field commander of a specialized police unit, struggles with alienation borne of having a robotic body, her brain being the only organic part of her. Ghost in the Shell opens with a frantic firefight in a sleek high-rise that climaxes with a dude’s head exploding, followed by an opening-credit sequence depicting the construction of a robotic body. “In anime,” he says, “there is no actual flesh and blood human being involved, characters are all puppets.” The gynoids, which look like ball-jointed maquettes, are revealed to be reacting to trauma that’s been imprinted in their programming — they were designed as surrogates for a male-coded user fantasy but are embodying female-coded emotional responses to being used.
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