![]() ![]() The circumstances that allowed society to reach this point? Utterly captivating in the forward-thinking 1995 original. Major’s existence is within a world of rundown progress, fixated on bettering life while simultaneously crushing much of the Earth in poverty. The recreation in Ghost in the Shell is less impressive considering a swatch of visuals are digitally animated anyway. A slew of shots come directly from the anime, stuck in the rut of Gus Van Sant’s Psycho do-over. Ghost in the Shell is mighty proud of its digitally tweaked Hong Kong, letting it soak in the camera lens, and eventually into visual redundancy. This is less a movie of narrative than it is of production design. With languid pacing, Johansson’s derivative struggle doesn’t connect as much as the world around her does. People turn even their basic senses over to the corporations replacing them, leaving the interesting saga of Ghost in the Shell wavering in the background. The rest tells a story built around capitalist hysteria, and a perfunctory leering at human nature. Ghost in the Shell is mighty proud of its digitally tweaked Hong Kong…
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