Review of Ghost in the Shell (2017) by Eupackardia — 04 Apr 2017

Coming from a fan of GitS since the original movie, and having watched the 3 films and 3 series.

This movie was awesome. I went with a homie with whom we used to watch the series together in our pre-college years. He loved it, I loved it.

Here goes:

1: Many references to the whole of GitS. If you know your stuff, this movie offers many deep and subtle references to various series of the whole franchise. Not only the blatant scenes from the first movie. I won't go any further because it will contain spoilers but. *Note the crane episode from GitS Sac2*.

Story: it's an overlay of the original movie, delving into a story arc that was not presented in detail in either of the GitS franchise. SO it's not meant to be a repetition of the original, rather exploring more deeply into the past of Majour.

And in itself a very original and well deserved GitS artwork.

It is not dumbed down like most say, it is a clever reassembling and introduction of the series and I can see that the Director knew his stuff pretty darn well.

Thing is: the Director IS NOT trying to resauce and remake a masterpiece of the first movie. Instead he's taking from all of that and telling people: look if you want to know more of Gits, watch the rest of the stuff. Here I'm trying to tell a standalone story that delves deeper into the origin story and psychology of a young Majour. And it is well done.

Pls consider this: The movie 1 and 2 are in chronology. the series Sac1 and Sac2 have their own stories and chronology that are different and cannot be situated in the same timeline as the movies. Solid State Society can be argued to take place after SaC2.

Arise is another spinoff in another parallel universe from the other two sources.

In this logic, this movie is in itself a parallel universe and standalone on its own. but its story is very well that of the psychology and character development consistent with the others.

Remarkable, clever, well acted. (Scarlett acting a emotionally awkward robot human cyborg is quite legit) And for all those who are whining about why Scarlett, the movie kinda justifies it itself. So here goes.