watched the second episode of Ghost in the Shell last night, and the name was also called Innocent. At the beginning of the film, "Future Eve" is quoted to express doubts about the existence of human beings. And in the back, the quantification of human technology is repeatedly mentioned. That is to say, in the future, every organ and all life experiences of human beings can be realized and measured by scientific methods, and human beings can recognize and transform themselves in the same way they know and transform machines now. However, in this case, should people's theory of life change? From a certain point of view, human beings are no longer an inherently independent species, and in the face of robots with different life forms, human beings' knowledge of their own existence will inevitably fall into nothingness. Barth and his partner, however, represent very different perspectives on how technology can transform the body. Bart accepts the transformation of the body by technology, so that he can go beyond the limits of the human body. His partner, on the other hand, has a deep fear of the alienation of the body, and he tries to deceive himself to keep his memories of his wife and children so that he can complete his identification with the real world. And Motoko, who abandoned the body in the first episode and entered the infinite cyberspace with the self-conscious puppet master, is a complete mockery of the body. Here, I would like to express my views on Ghost. Ghost can be understood as a copy of the human brain by the computer. In order to surpass the limit of the physical brain, they always copy their memory and all life experience into the computer, and in the brain There are also foreign computers in the computer, which can be connected to the network at any time. So Motoko can download his combat experience into a doll at the last critical moment and help Bart destroy the factory.
In addition to the understanding of life forms, this esoteric cartoon also has a deep exploration of the relationship between humans and robots. He objected to a clear distinction between humans and robots. "If an individual with independent self-awareness can be called human, then, before self-awareness, children whose minds are in a state of chaos are different from human in their hearts, but have a human appearance." For dolls, or artificial humans, they are all humanoid robots. In this film, the director makes a similar comparison between children and dolls, and at the same time affirms that humans are so extreme to divide the boundaries between themselves and machines, but It is because people are afraid that they can be reduced to simple mechanisms like robots, and their own existence is plunged into nothingness.
Virtual reality plays an important role in the film, and this proposition is also involved in the director's other two works "Avalon" and "Red Eyes". Since the human electronic brain is always connected to the network, there is a danger of being attacked by viruses. After Bart's partner was attacked in the movie, he fell into a series of illusions - "virtual reality", and was finally rescued by Bart. The so-called reality, or the relationship between the physical real world and fantasy, is explained in the film by themes in the Wachowski Brothers' "The Matrix: Episode 1" and Kronenberg's "X Contact". Therefore, this sense of unreality is also caused by the rapid development of network technology and virtual environment, which expresses the alienation effect of technology on human beings.
"Ghost in the Shell 2 Innocent" is more imposing and more sophisticated than "Ghost in the Shell 1", especially in the middle of the movie, the gorgeous and gorgeous temple fair scene makes people feel empty and beautiful. I don't want to explore whether there are anti-China ideas in this film, I don't want to involve too much politics in my review unless the film itself is from a political point of view
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