Extended Reading
  • Ellen 2021-11-15 08:01:26

    This is not just a movie-and on the standards of a good movie

    Regarding the evaluation of film quality, there seem to be several accepted standards:

    1. A good film should transcend time, space and place.

    On this point, you can understand by looking at IMDBTOP250. If Shawshank’s salvation is played on the Centaur alpha one hundred years later, I...

  • Anderson 2022-03-21 09:01:42

    【CIMS304 Japanese Cinema】Discussion Post Week.12

    “Ghost in the Shell” is a wonderful film which provides multiple possibilities of interpretations from all kinds of perspectives. It recalls my feelings when watching Paprika and Akira. However, Oshii's work shows more monumentality through the pace and scores of this film. The reading “A Cyborg...

  • Nathan 2021-11-15 08:01:26

    The most serious cartoon

  • Evie 2022-04-22 07:01:10

    Is it also possible that ghost is just a program? Can a program exist in place of ghost? Can memory be tampered with? After all, individuals rely on their survival and distinguish them from other characteristics as memory. If memory is just an implanted program, then what is the meaning of existence?

Ghost in the Shell quotes

  • Puppet Master: It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So, man is an individual only because of his intangible memory... and memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind. The advent of computers, and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization.

  • Major Motoko KusanagiPuppet Master: When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child. Now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways.