"The body is an appearance, an unreliable, non-essential thing."
If I summarize the theme of this film, I think it should be "the definition of life", "the relationship between the soul (ghost) and the body (shell)".
------After the sea cucumber is cut in half from the middle, it will regenerate into two separate sea cucumbers, because regenerative cells exist in the head and anus. Although sea cucumbers do not have brains, what is this? What should the life regenerated from the anus half be? Can I say that the sea cucumber has no consciousness (soul) and only has a body? And sea cucumbers must be life, which means that the decisive factor of life is to have a living body, is it okay to have no soul and consciousness? What is the legal definition of brain death as death? The body is still alive, and there is metabolism... It is said that life is sacred, but isn't the behavior of sea cucumbers showing the meaning of life, survival and reproduction? A puppet master is a life form evolved by a program. It can be said that the existence of ta has only consciousness and no body (and no gender) from the beginning. What is such a life...
------About Soul and Body, Teresa and Sabina in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Among them, Teresa once wondered, "If my nose grows by one millimeter every day from now on, and all parts of my body continue to change until I can't see the original appearance at all, then am I still me?" She gave the answer Yes for sure. In other words, the spirit and the flesh are separated and separable, and the soul is the "self". In this film, Kusanagi, after possessing an electronic brain and a prosthetic body with excellent performance, doubts whether he is still himself, even though his soul has not changed. This should be consistent with Sabina.
She asked Bart "how much of your original body do you have?" She confirmed her existence by diving to the bottom of the dark and hopeless sea, and she said she felt hope when she was about to surface.
As for myself, I also think that the soul and the body together constitute the self and are inseparable. Others recognize "I" through the appearance of the body, and I know the world through the senses of the body. It is the various senses of the body that create memories, and different memories form vastly different individuals.
"How can I guarantee that I'm still me?"
"There's no guarantee. Life is changing. The 'ego' that wants to keep yourself is always binding you."
After that, Kusanagi agreed to the fusion, does that mean she finally gave up The "ego" that has always been adhered to...
"In front of you is neither a puppet master, nor a woman called a major"
At the end of the film, the overhead scene at the beginning of the film is reproduced. The networked city that extends in all directions is still brilliant and dazzling, in which the voices of millions of people merge into a noisy background sound. It's just that Kusanagi, who has an advanced prosthetic body at the beginning, has become a girl, and Kusanagi is no longer a Kusanagi, but a fusion of Kusanagi and a puppet master. At this time, the ethereal background music <
"The Internet is infinite."
This is mixed with hope and doubt, freedom and anxiety.
The film ends here, leaving viewers with a thousand thoughts.
(Actually, I think this thing can also be viewed as an "air killer"...)
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