1995 · animation · sci-fi
Ghost in the Shell
Directed by Mamoru Oshii1h 23m1995
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
Our read: Ghost in the Shell (1995) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive animation · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured animation / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- cold
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