The Ghost in the Shell Review

Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell is a fictional American action film. It is on the trail of the Major, a kind full body who takes the lead in the task of elite force section nine. An adversary confronts Section 9 with the purpose of eradicating Hanka Robots’ advances in cyber intelligence, with the dedication to combat the most violent radicals and offenders. This is one of the most recent acts in the anime franchise’s theaters (“Ghost in the Shell”). This action is technically sound, with less homage to the film and more inspiration from various TV shows. It addresses mainly the questions of individuality and post-humanity is a visually sumptuous story of origin that leaves a plenty room for follow ups. However, the heart of the film is full of controversy.

The Story

The story addresses the people who tend to abuse this brave world of technology, and seeks to accomplish the whole idea of future. When you think about everybody’s biggest fear in the context of technology, it brings about the matter of stolen identity, or hacking someone’s brain. The more technology gets into someone, the more it is woven into their lives and the more people can abuse it. These shows there are characters at both the governmental level and at the criminal level doing scary things, thereby abusing the technology. This film tends to put style before substance. Its main concern is action, but in terms of the film’s adaptation, it spends more time meditating the way to locate the soul when the technology merges with biology. The movie shows Mira’s transformation into human with a resonant and complicated inner life, and the flat performance of Johansson’s does not sell that arc.

The Endeavor

The endeavor of this movie fails in that the transformation idea and its affiliation with memories of culture and life tends to break the movie. It runs deeper failing to focus more on representation and casting. It goes to some lengths turning its setting into an inhabited culture of metropolis by bodies enhanced technologically (Swallow 2). The principal cast is white which is so predominant, but some opportunities of color are afforded to the actors to shine. There is an effortless presence brought by Zatoichi star to every scene he appears. The big issue is the form in which the film takes during the shift from human to post-human. By the climax of the film, it is shown how a young Japanese woman, Motoko Kasanagi, was abducted by Hanka Robotics, with her brain linked to the synthetic body creating a hybrid Mira which a human-machine.

Ghost in the Shell’s Vision

The Ghost in the Shell’s creates more problems in the future of humanity’s vision, where absence of race fails to align comfortably with the whiteness. And since to entangle from that fundamental problem is difficult, it is not enough when it is said that Scarlet Johanson was a miscast. There is need to question whether a live-action adaptation of the property could exist in any form by not addressing that issue.

In Conclusion

In conclusion, the original Major had major setbacks since it lacked blankness and also had the absence of personality. This means, all her physical presence is not very engaging. The heavy derivative in the film does not make it look new, and beneath that sleek surface there is little depth. But it is attractive and solid, with at least appeal of retro considering its cyberpunk styling.

Works Cited

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Swallow, James. Ghost in the Shell: The Official Movie Novelization. , 2017. Internet

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Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VmJcZR0Yg [Accessed 19 Nov. 2017]. 2017