Monday, October 17, 2005

"Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."

Quote from the Puppet Master in Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, a sci-fi anime... for the record sometimes I find it hard to go on with sci-fi movies or genres and surprisingly I actually love this movie! The cinematic experience is just amazing... I don't quite know whether this is just some sort of 3-D animation or not but am sure not complaining...

Alrighty... enough of me babbling and if you think that there's any kind of story behind the seeing of the movie then I guess you might be disappointed because I bought the DVD and have no problem in transport etc ^--^ so now back to the story...

In the future there is no line between machine and humans... many humans are partly machine or a total cyborg... That is the case for Major Motoko Kusanagi... a special op leader whose body is completely made of machine... but a human brain... But I guess the real thing about the movie is really not the whole story behind the anime... it is indeed the philosophy behind it...

I have to say that it is as complex as the Matrix but I guess the whole story really deals with life and death... as they want to say it... but I love the whole philosophy and how life and everything created behind it is sometimes deprived of its meaning... *sigh...

It was beautiful... especially with Major as the main character in the movie... it was a complex yet satisfying answer to the sometimes mundane questions in life...

All in all a great GREAT movie... it is one of the few sci-fi movies that I love ^--^ There is not much to tell I guess because I haven't really watch it when I was clear headed... but one more thing that is worth mentioning is the attention to the movement and the direction is jsut smashing!! THEY ARE!!

It's amazing that an anime could be so life-like... and it doesn't just randomly edited but it was beautifully crafted... and each scene really feels like a whole real-story...

Enough of me babbling again... rent it or buy it! Whatever you want just see it if you are into Matrix or Blade Runner type of movies...

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