in the shell

Whilst they have spiritual/religious elements to them I think Oshii's films are more philosophically inclined personally as with Scotts and the "ghost" is more a self aware consciousness that machines lack more due to limit in tech pre puppetmaster. In both cases as well I tend to think th...

I have always rather felt that there was a good deal of Blade Runner influence here. Scots film and GiTs would I feel be less about claiming theres "no soul" and more what exactly "soul" is. In Blade Runner especially I'd say that the replicants are intended as a stand in for mod...

7 years late but I tend to think of anime during the late 80's to mid 90's to cinema(well more especially sci fi/fantasy genre films) as rather like Krautrock in the 70's to music. In a period where you could argue the western mainstream had become quite conservative an outside culture was arguably ...

I actually ended up seeing it for a second time today with another friend who wanted to watch it on the big screen before its gone and I did find it easier to digest on its own terms second time around rather than just looking out for bits of the various versions being reused. Knowing which elements...

First I'd like to say hi, the film got tme to dig out my DVD's of Oshii's two films for the first time in years and I might finally get around to watching more than a small amount of SOC(and perhaps the new anime as well) so I thought signing up for this place might be fun. As far as the film itself...