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The animated companion to Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell seeks to delve even deeper into the nature of identity than its predecessor, distinguishing itself with a more political story and its backdrop as the advent of the information age. An animated art film is a nigh-singular achievement. It’s a cross-section of two genres you almost never get, and a great one to boot.

Motoko the cyborg ponders the nature of self. When a completely artificial body gains a ghost, or soul/identity, she drifts into solipsism and begins to doubt the notion that her identity even exists. She feels that maybe her actual brain tissue has died or was taken over by the electronic portion. This is important because another theme of this movie is “from many come one (E Pluribus Unum),” or the singular life created by all of us. Is individuality inherent or is it created by your environment, defeating its purported usefulness? Has the internet (or this film’s vision of it, the film’s also quite prescient) that her brain can access taken over her personality completely? This is a metaphor for having one’s individuality disappearing into an interconnected world.

It then turns out that the Puppet Master wants to essentially mate with her because she is who she is. The film ends with their “offspring” (Motoko’s head mounted on a child-cyborg body, in a bit of obvious symbolism) looking into the future. This is a callback to the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the new stage in evolution looks upon the world, ready for everyone to progress. The separation of body and soul in identity has been another major theme, but that the puppet master seems to embrace both aspects of her identity. This very cold movie therefore makes a fairly heartfelt statement about love: your individuality is what attracts people to you, and that’s its purpose on a primal level.

Mamoru Oshii - (1995) Ghost in the Shell.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese, English
Subtitles:English, Romanian, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Estonian

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As the world decayed into chaos, the Metropolitan Police had no choice but to fight back, creating an elite unit of police. They became known as Kerberos, the Watchdogs of Hell. Over time, though, the zeal of the police force was transformed into cruelty and corruption. Three of the elite rebelled against the system. But only one, senior detective Koichi Todome, escaped to freedom. Several years later, he returns home. But why? What is left for him in this city that continues to decay? Koichi must now determine who is friend and who is foe as he attempts to unravel what happened after he left.

945MB | 1h 56m | 672×352 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/E4E6912AD1D05ED/The_Red_Spectacles.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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In the abandoned streets of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a young girl protects a mysterious egg with her life. She meets a mysterious drifter who is interested in what may be inside the egg.
A masterpiece of allegory and surrealism. Exploring art history and dream logic, Oshii’s early film is perhaps the most purely visual in his oeuvre.

1.09GB | 1h 11mn | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B7FC1050C6BF0BD/Angel%27s_Egg_SD.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/7EA434ADE0B0323/Angel%27s_Egg_SD.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (soft subs)

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