Ghost In The Shell is a wonder, the first thing I thought when I saw it was "as I did not see it before" without a doubt it deserves the position it has as a cult work, its animation is impeccable despite being 1995 it has an animation and drawn beautiful combined with a sublime OST, it is obvious that much has been said about that intro or music that accompanies the beginning of the creation of Motoko Kusanagi and that even the name of the song is perfect "I Making the Cyborg" describes perfectly well the moment and the film in question.
The film presents a dystopian future with a cyberpunk environment (as I love it) in this reality, the virtual and the technology is the daily bread, humans are not only made of flesh and blood and it has become common and ordinary see people with various robotic parts and robots themselves, we have a reality where companies and science has already made one of man's great dreams "create life in his likeness" and the first step is robotics, you know, that dream that man or humanity has and longs "for creation".
From here we are presented Motoko Kusanagi a woman cyborg in this world, as it is presented to us. Major Kusanagi embodies these fundamental questions of humanity. In the film, humans are recognized as "unmodified". In this way, Kusanagi is a cyborg because only his brain is human if one could say, a cybernetic brain, while his entire body corresponds to a structure of titanium or metal. Our protagonist and the movie eventually begin to question their existence and give us different points of view. What makes a person a person? Can you stop being a person? Can you become a person? Is there a spirit? And if it exists, what is its relation to the body? That I am? And it leads us to ask ourselves: What is the difference between man and machine?
I highlight the good scenes and animation in which the protagonist despite not having or making facial expressions (obviously she is a android) we manage to reflect their feelings and ideas, in perfect shots that without need to tell us something we can feel what she feels , is incredible.
Speaking of the characters, the protagonist and Batou his partner are the most prominent with the villain of this movie, there really is not much background in most characters but it is normal to talk about a movie of 1 hour and 22 minutes ... apart from those two I emphasize much to the character Togusa and is that without a doubt is the most human in such a cybernetic world and this is reflected even more in the sequel to this film "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence."
The villain is complex and interesting, at first we were presented as a hacker nicknamed "The Puppet Master" hes hacked persons,robots (we remember that we now live in a cybernetic world where brain implants are normal) and forced them to do things, either steal, investigate, simply controlled, as well as hacked or entered classified government places, but we have an incredible turn and is that the "villain" is not a person, is an entity, an artificial being or intelligence artificial, initially known as project 2501 .. although he also denied that,since it feels and wants to seek to feel human, it reaches the point of asking for political asylum and being recognized as a person. It is considered an intelligent way of life because it is sensitive and can recognize its own existence, but it does not have the basic processes of the human being, such as reproducing and dying, here you can apply the philosophy "I think, therefore I am" or rather "I think, so which I exist" to summarize it is simple, if I am able to think for myself, then I exist. (Cogito ergo sum)
The goal of the 2501 project was to merge with the Major and become a new being able to be able to enter the network and obtain a higher existence and life and be one with the whole, obviously she has doubts and requires she to know if In the end she will continue being herself, the proyect 2501 tells Makoto that the desire to remain what she is, is what limits her. It offers to become part of all things.
It is interesting the turn that occurs of having shown us that she was looking for it, when in reality it was the 2501 project that I always look for her, another interesting point of the antagonist is how they showed it to us in an appearance or in a "female body" when her voice they were masculine, showing us clearly that this entity did not have defined sex or could not be defined as such, all these things make the antagonist one of the things that make this work what it is.
Overall -Finally, it is a great work with a deep philosophy, a great animation with great scenarios that perfectly represents that world in which we live, with a very good musical atmosphere and the best, the development of the story, I give it 9 / 10 simply because nothing is perfect.
