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The future of society, cyber and crime
Hilton 2022-03-24 09:01:32
Ghost in the Shell, created by Japanese manga artist Masamune Shirow, is set in a future Japan. In the future society, the whole world will be connected by a huge information network, and all kinds of human tissues and organs can be artificially created. Biochemical people, bionic people, and humans coexist on the earth, and cannot be identified with the naked eye alone. Many people's bodies have ports to connect to the Internet (at the back of the neck), and the body becomes purely a container for the human soul. Against this background, criminal activities have also taken new trends. The secret action group "Ghost in the Shell" under the National Public Safety Commission of Japan was specially established to deal with such crimes. The protagonist played by Scarlett Johansson Suzi is one of them
Extended Reading
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Batou: [Batou just got new eyes] Say something nice.
Major: You chose those?
Batou: They're tactical.
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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!