One star for Scarlett, one star for Kuze, one star for visual effects

Kolby 2022-03-25 09:01:06

I haven't read the original book, it turned out to be an adaptation of a Japanese anime, and the whole process is set in Japan. I was familiar with the black widow's medium and long curly hair, changed it to a very Japanese girl's hairstyle, and was called a major (in an instant when I crossed into the anti-Japanese drama), I was a little uncomfortable at first, but it's good to watch more. Scarlett is too expressive in the action scene, but a few clothes are average, and they look better when they are not worn. Every time she appears after stealth, there is a sense of surprise. . .

Scarlett is really a rare actress in a commercial action blockbuster who can hold the audience. Her actions are sexy and energetic, her aura is cold and powerful, and her warmth after the gradual awakening of her body is also displayed just right.

The little brother who played Kuze also made my eyes shine. He was sick, decadent, delicate, pale, dark, and very sincere. In an instant, I was convinced that what he said was the truth. Before he died, he was lying with Scarlett, two broken bodies, the picture was a beautiful match. I once thought that they would have a kiss after recalling the past, but unfortunately the villain didn't give them time to get along well.

The visuals are gorgeous. Human organs can be transplanted and transformed, but there are not a few normal people and all kinds of robots in the film. The phenomenon of suddenly taking off their eyes like glasses really shocked me. Every frame of the exterior scene has taken great care. Against the urban background dominated by gray and blue, interspersed with strong colors with high saturation, the perfect fusion of cold and warm tones is both realistic and colorful. Imagine if one day With the development of technology, cities have really become like this, um, it's pretty cool.

Sadly, the storyline is a bit clichéd. The evil technology company kills innocent humans indiscriminately and transforms it into a tool that completely obeys itself, and then the tool discovers the secret about its own background when it performs its task, which awakens its previous memory. I guessed the main storyline from the beginning, and the progress was not unexpected, and it was simple and straightforward. The nine departments of the public security, the direct leader of the major, and his companion Bart and others were completely just. Knowing the truth, they broke off cooperation with the black company. It is quite acceptable to finish it hastily without digging a complicated big pit.

If you look at it purely as a science fiction movie, it is still qualified.

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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!