After nearly ten years, Oshii Mamoru renewed his continuation of his classic animation "Ghost in the Shell" and brought Innocence, coupled with the recent TV Series Stand Alone Complex, Shell 1.5, video game and other offensives, Innocence has become the continuation of this "offensive".
The attack on the shell that year became famous internationally. Its profound technological characterization has impacted western science fiction movies and brought another level of cyberpunk expression. Under the new impact of this new era, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi seeks the truth of himself and his life, and evolves in conjunction with the new life puppet master of the Internet.
Innocence's story takes on Kusanaru's "disappearance" and the Jiu Class investigates a series of cases of robot killing and suicide, centering on Bart to pursue the truth of the incident. Originally, because the focus of the promotion was in the word "love", I thought the story was new. In fact, Innocence was adapted from the sixth chapter of the comic, "Robot Rondo", which is a story about copying the soul. Of course, the movie version has many different changes.
When I watch Innocence, I feel like SAC, maybe because the quality of SAC itself is quite high. Of course, the 3D technique used this time is better, and the resulting picture is very careful and beautiful, and the 3D and 2D are also blended just right, and the picture processing is even better.
This time, the background is still very similar to the streets of Hong Kong, full of signature oppression, but this time there is not much "water". The tall buildings stand in a cloud of fog, which looks like a Blade Runner. The color has also changed from the blue and black tones that highlight the coldness of the technology in the first episode to the warmer red-brown-yellow, perhaps because of the change in the theme.
At the beginning of the story, it also showed a sentence like the first episode:
"If the God we believe in and the hope we chase are only scientific quantification, then will our love also be scientific?"-
People discussed in the book "Future Eve" by Lil Adam , Is to use artificial people to become ideal women, the theme that I want to bring out in the film: the distinction between people and dolls is getting more and more blurred, people are humans because of ghosts, and who can know the essence of ghosts ? Compared with the emotion of "love" between people, is it also related to ghost? Can there be love without ghost?
The story begins with Bart chasing down the runaway robot to kill its owner and attacking humans. The robot keeps asking for help, and finally ends in suicide. Jiu Ke intervened in the investigation because all the victims in the incident had privately reconciled with Locus Solus, and among the victims involved politicians, which may be related to terrorist activities. This time, Bart partnered with Degusa to gradually find out the truth of the incident.
The opening credit in the opening is the process of making gainoid in the story, and of course it is relative to the production of cyborg in the first episode. The music is similar, adding a little more change to the original music mode, adding more emotional uplift.
The story is the same, from a series of cases, it brings out philosophical questions. In addition to the case, the development of the story records the lives of Bart and his dog. In the nine lessons, we can actually often hear them mention Shao Zuo. This time, the problem is not the crisis of personal consciousness, but the society related to many other people's connections. The introduction of the story has shown that in this future generation, the boundary between humans and machines is becoming more and more blurred. In the previous episode, we discussed what the so-called ghost is, but in this episode, we will look at the flesh.
The dialogue in the film also has many philosophical questions, such as why we have to make human-like robots, fertility and artificial life, external memory and so on. However, when these are mentioned, they are relatively "obtrusive", so it sounds like a preaching taste, and there are too many citations, and there are often some things that I don't understand, so it is still boring at first glance.
In the film, like the first episode, there is also a complete scene display. This time it is a traditional tour of Etorofu. It is said that it was conducted in many different places, including the mainland and Taiwan.
In terms of the sense of technology in the whole film, there are also situations of "black coming and going". The most impressive part is that De Gufa fell into the virtual reality maze and was very nervous. The Cantonese central computer, the dubbing is a bit funny. However, the sense of technology of the whole film is not strong, and there is a retro flavor in it.
Innocence, in fact, refers to dolls and dogs. They are unaware, that is, there is no ghost, so it also avoids the consciousness possessed by human beings, which is innocence. In the future, human beings have stepped into mechanization, both in body and mind, so they will make puppets to bring comfort to their souls, from creating fake lives to proving that they are the supreme species with ghosts. Deification of oneself. This excess of self-awareness has led to contempt for other things in reality and loses its innocence. The body and the ghost are equally important. We rely on the body to contact the world, which is our interface to things in the world. Therefore, we cannot allow ourselves to rise, seeking common ground while reserving differences is the way.
All in all, the story itself is very simple, but the reason behind it is still difficult to understand. There are also a large number of quotations, the meaning is even more difficult to understand, and it is not enough to read it once.
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