Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Short description
In a future where the line between people and machines has grown faint, Batou is a detective whose body is almost entirely artificial, with only fragments of his original brain and the memory of a woman named Motoko Kusanagi left to him. He and his partner Togusa investigate a string of killings in which gynoids, female-shaped androids built for sexual use, murder their owners and then destroy themselves. The manufacturer would rather settle quietly with the victims' families and pull the units from the market, but Batou and Togusa continue to press the case, drawing them toward the truth behind the deaths.
Mamoru Oshii directed and wrote the screenplay, his eighth film in a directorial career that includes Patlabor 2: The Movie and the earlier Ghost in the Shell. Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka and Koichi Yamadera lead the voice cast, with Tamio Ohki, Yutaka Nakano and Hiroaki Hirata in supporting roles. The production, a Japanese animation made with Studio Ghibli among its backers, is a sequel to Oshii's 1995 film, and it earned about 10 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.4 from roughly 43,000 votes, with 7.4 on TMDB from about a thousand. A critics' rating of 6.4 from 98 reviews places it below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the beginning, during the credits, the legs of two cyborgs appear on the screen, shown in a way that suggests they belong to a single being. This is a reference to the works of German graphic artist, sculptor, painter, and writer Hans Bellmer (1902-1975). Later, one of his books will also be shown on screen.
- The music playing in the Dollhouse was produced by a genuine music box made by the Japanese company Sankyo Seiki. First, the sound was recorded in a studio. Then, the recording was played in 5.1 surround sound in a former quarry and re-recorded to give the sound additional volume.
- The minor character, forensic scientist Mrs. Haraway, is a reference to Donna Haraway, a distinguished professor in the Feminist Studies Department and the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Haraway is considered one of the founders of cyberfeminism and a central figure in posthumanism (a worldview based on the idea that human evolution is not complete and can be continued in the future).
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