{"id":16628,"date":"2024-07-18T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16628"},"modified":"2024-07-15T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:35:40","slug":"ghost-in-the-shell-1995-mamoru-oshii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16628","title":{"rendered":"Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, boobs, I get it, we all love boobs.  The most 1995 thing I&#8217;ve ever seen.  The only thing I remembered from the VHS is that shot where the cyborg supersoldier pulls something so hard her arms come off, and it&#8217;s still the coolest thing here by far (the invisibility-suit effects also nice).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ghoshell1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Android moral quandaries ripped from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15232\">Robocop<\/a><\/em>.  It&#8217;s so talky in a self-important sci-fi cop-show way, but all this chatter is background noise to the actual plot (reminisce: <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16512\">Nemesis<\/a><\/em>), which leads to a <em>Lawnmower Man<\/em> ending.  The writer worked on <em>Pistol Opera<\/em>, which needs to come out on blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is who comes for you if you haven&#8217;t turned on multifactor authentication:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ghoshell2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Jake Cole:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This really isn&#8217;t a thriller because the sporadic action merely punctuates a story that uses nearly every plot element as a macguffin to ruminate on the nature of identity and how technology alters our perception of self. The finale, in which a cyborg evolves to propagate itself, recasts the internet and global networking as the next stage of reproduction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Adding this line to my resume:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ghoshell3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, boobs, I get it, we all love boobs. The most 1995 thing I&#8217;ve ever seen. The only thing I remembered from the VHS is that shot where the cyborg supersoldier pulls something so hard her arms come off, and it&#8217;s still the coolest thing here by far (the invisibility-suit effects also nice). Android moral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,96,2760,3277,30,1190,36,1489],"class_list":["post-16628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-animation","tag-cyber","tag-cyborg","tag-identity","tag-invisibility","tag-japan","tag-mamoru-oshii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16649,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions\/16649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}