Bodily Wonders: Reverie Meditations in Future Spaces

Fred 2022-04-20 09:01:29

Movies and cities interact and are inextricably linked. As Canadian film studies professor George Melnyk said, "movies actually have an 'urbanity' attribute". Science fiction films establish the connection between space, scenes, characters and film stories through the multiple presentation of city symbols. In the future society where everything is a medium, the human body is also embodied as a media platform, increasingly manifesting as a kind of "body spectacle". In "Ghost in the Shell", highly developed technology outlines the urban situation at both ends of the world and data-controlled, "Cyborg" loaded with electronic prostheses or biochemical people with "organless" bodies It can travel freely between real and virtual spaces at any time, and body parts can be dismembered, assembled, reproduced or preserved like machine parts, and can also be sold and consumed like commodities.

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Extended Reading

Ghost in the Shell quotes

  • Batou: [Batou just got new eyes] Say something nice.

    Major: You chose those?

    Batou: They're tactical.

  • Major: Tell me who you are.

    Kuze: I am that which you seek to destroy. In this life, my name is Kuze.

    Major: What are you doing to me?

    Kuze: I have connected you to a network of my own creation. When I am finished in this world, my ghost can survive there and regenerate.

    Major: What do you want from me?

    Kuze: I became fascinated with you, reading your code while you were inside that geisha. Like nothing I had felt before and yet so... familiar. We are the same.

    Major: We are not the same. You kill innocent people.

    Kuze: "Innocent", is that what you call them? I am as they made me.

    Major: Who made you?

    Kuze: What have they told you? That you were the first? The first cerebral salvage? You were born of lessons took from my failure.

    Major: What are you talking about?

    Kuze: I was conscious while they dismembered my body and discarded me like garbage. I was lying on a table, listening to doctors talk about how my mind had not meshed with the shell that they had built, how Project 2571 had failed, and they had to move on to you.

    [removes a piece of Major's face]

    Kuze: What a beauty you are. They have improved us so much since they made me. They thought we would be a part of their evolution, but they have created us to evolve alone... beyond them.

    Major: "Evolution", that's what you call killing everyone who made you?

    Kuze: You're not listening to me.

    Major: You're a murderer.

    Kuze: They tried to kill me first. It is self-defense; defense of self! More will die until they tell me what they took!