Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 01:23:00 | 5,16 Gb
Audio: English, Japanese - AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps (each track) | Subs: English
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-fi
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 01:23:00 | 5,16 Gb
Audio: English, Japanese - AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps (each track) | Subs: English
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-fi
In the year 2029, the world is made borderless by the net; augmented humans live in virtual environments, watched over by law enforcement that is able to download themselves into super-powered, crime busting mecha. The ultimate secret agent of the future is not human, has no physical body, and can freely travel the information highways of the world, hacking and manipulating whatever and whenever required.
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a renewed version of the Ghost in the Shell 1995 film produced as part of celebration for the release of The Sky Crawlers in 2008. For the Version 2.0, all the animation was re-produced using latest technology such as 3D-CGI, and the soundtrack was also remastered. All the voices were re-recorded. Notably, the voice actor of the "Puppet Master" was changed from Kayumi Iemasa to that of Sakakibara Yoshiko, and some dialogues were changed from the original.
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In the western world, anime is now an important part of out cinematic lives. From the amazing Akira to some of the family films released by Studio Ghibli, a lot of us are hooked into the wonders of Japanimation. Of course, as with any genre, there are unmissables, films that define what the genre is all about. In the case of anime, some of those title would be the aforementioned Akira, Ninja Scroll, the amazing soap opera Macross (or Robotech for the 80s Saturday morning TV kids), Voltron, Spirited Away and of course, the influential Ghost in the Shell.
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Here we have a new release of Ghost in the Shell, updated so that it looks the best it ever has, but here we also have something different. The original GitS suffered from individuality issues after The Matrix borrowed heavily from its look and feel. The producers have tweaked… actually more than tweaked, they have pulled out the old engine and souped it up with some Hot Rod styled super charger, to give it back what it had earned in its own right: an amazing voice in the world not just of anime, but of sci-fi as an entire genre.
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Ghost in the Shell is set in 2029, and the world has become a gigantic electronic hub, where moreso than ever before, information is power, and the most prized possessions in the world are the best hackers. We are introduced to Major Motoko Kusanagi, an artificial human being who works for a police division known as Section 9. Most of the members of this elite security force are cybernetic in some way, but Kusanagi's completely artificial body gives her the edge over the others who still retain mostly human parts.
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The Section's current job is to track down a hacker known as the Puppet Master, who is able to reprogram living humans to do his bidding as if they were machines, leaving them as confused husks with no real memories when he has finished with them. Kusanagi has a personal reason for tracking down the Puppet Master: if he can hack a human brain, does this mean he can ascertain what is real and artificial? Would he be able to determine whether or not a completely built human being has a 'ghost' and therefore help her to come to terms her existence? She actively pursues him but doesn't realize one thing: he is just as interested in her as she is in him… but why?
Watch and find out.
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While I am not always in support of a film getting updated for new audiences, I have to say I am extraordinarily glad that this film has been altered to give it back its own identity. The Matrix stole so much from it, not just in its cinematic design, but ideas, and even costuming choices.
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Obviously, obsessive fanboys are going to hate any souping up of their beloved GitS, and I fully appreciate that. At times the differences are quite jarring, especially when the updated Kusanagi is still present amongst some of the older animation, but I have to say that visually I actually prefer this version, and at the end of the say, the amazing cyberpunk story has not been altered.
It would also be remiss of me not to mention that this anime is based on the spectacular manga by Masamune Shirow, who is also responsible for many other great works such as Appleseed and Dominion that are well worth tracking down.
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
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