Review of Ghost in the Shell (1995) by Tristan P — 01 Apr 2017

Strangely beautiful urban scenery at a calculated slow pace, with a superb and surprising music score, and lots of suggestive ideas for a post-human future, this is a truly engaging and forward looking anime film that speaks to us 20 years later, and which will probably still speak to our children twenty years from now.

The plot is hard to follow, and is probably meant to be. Who cares? Visualising the fragmented identity of a cyborg more robot than human - perhaps - is what matters. The other conventions - naked female but not human body, glorified violence - are what one should expect from the genre.