I find anything to do with the Legendary
Manga / Anime of Shirow Masamune, especially The Ghost In The
Shell series a must see.
A movie that questions our own human existence in the fast
paced world of the information age
IT FOUND A VOICE... NOW IT NEEDS A BODY
In a world caught in the grip of information overload, where
artificial intelligence is more than the real thing and cyborg
cops spend their lives surfing on an electronic sea of living
data, only the Ghost - the indefinable element of human consciousness
- exists to determine who is alive and who is purely a creation
of the net.
Major Motoko Kusanagi is an elite officer in the Section
9 security force: a cybernetic agent so heavily modified
that little more than her Ghost remains. Along with fellow
cyborg Bateau and the mostly human Togusa, Kusanagi is set
on the trail of a computer-criminal known as the Puppet Master,
a data thief skilled enough to hack into the very minds of
his victims. His human marionettes live out existences that
are nothing more than computer generated fantasy, unwittingly
committing their master's crimes while the Ghost-hacker hides
in the darkness.
But as Kusanagi digs deeper into the walls of secrecy surrounding
the case, it appears that the Puppet Master has a special
interest in her alone. And when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
shadowy Section 6, enter the scene, Kusanagi becomes tangled
in a web of plot and counterplot, and realizes the true identity
of her invisible assailant lies at the center of a vast and
lethal political conspiracy...
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