An ornate maze of people and artifacts

Jerrod 2022-04-22 07:01:42

The whole film is like a sleepwalker's mythical ravings. He explores the exit in a maze. Mysterious sacrificial songs reverberate in the maze. The maze is complicated and gorgeous. The dream has long been chaotic.

The story is reduced to a foil, and the thoughts and thoughts of the sleepwalker walking in the maze become the most conspicuous and eye-catching characters in the film.

After the major disappeared, Bart and Togusa formed a partner to continue serving in the 9th Section of the Public Security.

The occurrence of multiple killings and suicides of girl doll robots attracted the attention of Section 9 of the Public Security, and Section 9 dispatched Bart and Togusa to investigate the details behind it. During the investigation, a person in charge of the doll company Locus Solus was maliciously dismembered and killed. Class Nine found the gangster who carried out the revenge plan based on the clues near the scene, but the mystery of the murder of the girl doll has not been solved yet.

On the way home, Bart was hacked into the electronic brain and nearly died in a convenience store. The other party bought a murderer and murdered just to prove that the murder of the doll was extraordinary. After being rescued, Bart decided to go to the northern city with Togusa to visit the general manager of the company that made the doll. At the base, Bart found Jin in the northern city to understand the situation, but Jin set a trap to try to murder the two. Fortunately, Bart escaped successfully with the help of the guardian angel.

Jin is related to the conspiracy of the doll manufacturing company. Bart sneaked into the general manufacturing ship of the doll company using the electronic brain left over after Kim's death. The system of the manufacturing ship detected the invasion and carried out a defensive attack. The two reunited and won a great victory, the mystery was solved, and the evil conspiracy of the doll company was terminated.

If the first part is a question about self-existence from the standpoint of idealism, the second part is a reflection on the relationship between man and man-made objects from the standpoint of materialism.

In the world of material absolutism, human beings are nothing but organic matter composed of a bunch of cells, and artificial humans such as robots and dolls are also composed of matter. Would the comparison of the higher and lower of the two be just human arrogance?

Kim fully mechanized his body and stated that "the perfection of a doll is comparable to that of a god". In his opinion, the existence of human beings is a flawed existence. The human body is not as strong as the body of the robot, the appearance of the human being is not as beautiful as that of the doll, and the human being is easily affected by uncontrolled emotions. It's mechanized and dolled.

For artificial objects such as robots, dolls, and technological tools, are humans the identity of the user or the identity of the vassal? If it is the identity of the user, why should we be so obsessed with making these tools into human form? The performance of most robots, dolls and other artificial humans is superior to that of humans. Humans’ fragile bodies are often vulnerable to these technological tools, and humans cannot escape from these tools. So, is it not humans controlling machines, but machines controlling humans?

Major becomes part of the network, Bart is a person who is almost completely cyborg, and they and Kim are actually in the same way, they are almost robotic people. The major said that he "walks alone in the world, my heart is pure, I have no desires and no desires, like an elephant in the forest", Jin is addicted to the plan of human dolling and can't extricate himself, only Bart has something in his heart but doesn't know where to go. As a complete human being, Togusa has a family to worry about, and when Bart comes home from get off work, in addition to accompanying a dog, he can only think of the major who has long traveled. To live or to die doesn't seem to matter.

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence quotes

  • [first title cards]: In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix, Batou, an agent of the elite Section 9 Security Force and a being so artificially modified as to be essentially cyborg, is assigned, along with his mostly human partner, Togusa, to investigate a series of gruesome murders.

  • Togusa: How great is the sum of thy thoughts? If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.

    Bateau: Psalms 139, Old Testament. The way you spout these spontaneous exotic references, I'd say your own external memory's pretty twisted.