2004 ‘イノセンス’ Directed by Mamoru Oshii
Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."
Akio Otsuka Koichi Yamadera Atsuko Tanaka Tamio Ohki Yutaka Nakano Hiroaki Hirata Masaki Terasoma Sumi Mutoh Yuzuru Fujimoto Sukekiyo Kameyama Ryuji Nakagi Fumihiko Tachiki Minoru Hirano Katsunosuke Hori Naoto Takenaka Hiroyuki Kinoshita Yoshiko Sakakibara Nanami Hinata Gou Aoba Eisuke Asakura Emiko Fuku Masao Harada Eriko Kigawa Shuji Kishida Kenichi Mochizuki Yasushi Niko Yuu Sugimoto Akeno Watanabe Makoto Yasumura
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Cannes Film Festival
Sweden
Stockholm International Film Festival
Germany
Fantasy Filmfest München
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Brazil
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UK15
PortugalM/12
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Germany16
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It's a "sequel is actually a masterpieces and better than the original contrary to the general consensus" episode again.
if everything that man creates is information, then tools, cities, children and society are extensions of the human genome and its intentions.
if man can create his world with intention, that means that for those creations, nothing is mechanistic, nothing is meaningless, that they have a god who made them for a specific purpose.
if man creates everything for a purpose, and children, which become man, are created by man, then man is his own god, and creates himself with a meaningful destiny and soul.
but man doesn't just create children. he also creates dolls in the mirror image of his own divinity. man gives birth to a world of divine meaning; god cannot help but create more gods.
“Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence” hones the structural minimalism of its predecessor to become one of the most remarkably sharp and visually-assured animes of its era.
It also has such a Spartan frame — that it seems to creak at times under the weight of its own ideology.
Using a sumptuous blend of hand drawn and computer generated animation, Mamoru Oshii meshes the work of man and machine into a singular artistic testament to the value of life. To this date, “Innocence” is still the only anime to be selected to compete for the top Palm d’Or prize at Cannes.
Oshii’s obsessive attention to detail (a seemingly necessary trait in the best anime directors) and visual acuity allow “Innocence”…
Innocence is an astounding and masterful animated film full of beauty, complexity, unparalleled action sequences and some of the same lovable characters we saw in the first entry. Innocence relies on the most outstanding animated special effects you will ever have the pleasure of seeing, but do not let the visual style distract you from its deep philosophy: alternate possibilities and epiphanies colliding in a parade of terrors and wonders.
95/100
every single sequence in this film is self-interrogating, constantly contrasting; superficially between the 2D and 3DCGI animation, but also in the fact that it makes no attempt to immerse its narrative in its artificiality, like a kon or miyazaki film would do. spaces in this film are atemporal, ahistorical. every location encompassing such a vibrant spectrum of colors, and design unmatched by any other visual work. there is no illusion, at least not in the relationship between the viewer and the art. this film is clear and upfront: there is no room here for those unwilling to participate. this quality is exactly why i was so conflicted the first time i viewed it: i had preconceived notions of what things…
nightmare kino for robots who read theory
me anytime batou’s basset hound is on screen: 🥰🥺
me anytime she is not on screen: 🤔🤓🤯
I'm a bit surprised that it seems most people really enjoyed this film. I found it to be hugely lacking and a massive step-down from its predecessor in pretty much every way.
I guess it's not all bad, since I enjoy the swiftly animated action sequences and new ideas on show to further develop the futuristic setting introduced in the original film. The animation is mostly good as well and I thought the CGI enhancements were stylistic enough as to not clash too much. Also the CGI mixing with traditional animation ties into the film's exploration of androids, cyborgs and the like.
But the plot is boring, really boring in fact. I tried my hardest to get invested, but it's…
"who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? the mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it"
metal gear solid 2/blade runner/Final Fantasy VII FMV/Limp Bizkit "Boiler" video/Tool video/Mudvayne video/ Resident Evil 2 cutscene hivebrain force-fed by an "inspired by "inspired The Matrix"" hand
"the eeriness of dolls comes solely from the fact that they are modeled on human beings. infact, they are nothing but human really. they make us face the fear of being reduced to simple mechanisms and matter. In other words, they make us face the fear that fundamentally all humans belong to the void."
robots quoting human philosophers. a nature they were, sadly, born from.
Refinements of history. abonimations of the soul.
"little girls use…
The plot makes sense, but you probably wouldn't know it just by watching it. I had to read the Wikipedia plot summary just to confirm that I got at least half of it right. I'll probably have watch this multiple times in order to cut through all the convoluted layers that sorround this plot.
The original isn't the easiest movie to follow, but with this one it feels more of a failure in its writing than a byproduct of an ambitious story.
Still, it's nice to be back in this world. The animation is beautiful, even if the cgi is a bit distracting. Visually, musically and thematically, it has all the right ingridients to be a satisfying follow-up. It just…
* My ghost is whispering to me *
Ascending into the digitally CGI world, traverse between reality and the future.
PS2 Graphics never looked so damn clean than this
People don't like this as much because it's largely a cyberpunk noir that stars Batou instead of the Major, but what people don't get is that Batou rules and is by far the most charming fucker in any iteration of Ghost in the Shell. Batou is my dude. Batou is the dude.
