Mamuro Oshii
The animation tends to create intricate universes and usually notable for its innovative and strange ideas. However, the novice tends to prejudge and categorize the fiction genre par excellence. Western eyes are unaccustomed to the complexity of the characters, plots or concepts and are easily disturbed by violence and crudeness of the images.
When one thinks of Japan's manufacturing immediately comes to mind is the word quality and animation is no exception. Tends to project all the care and thoroughness of the people is capable of rising sun: the level of detail and refinement is reflected in the environment, scenarios, or in any secondary device is placed in the plane.
However, staying in that level would be absurd because it is the constant in any animated series East. What these paragraphs could be written to Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Ninja Scroll, Jin Roh, Battle Angel Alita ...
Discuss Ghost in the Shell is inevitable because it represents a major milestone in the history of animation. Data from the nineties and belongs to the current called cyberpunk that, although it has been exploited enough, is one of the most serious attempts of science fiction.
works influenced by ciperpunk exhibit a bleak future dominated by mega-corporations and tech to the extreme. Excesses of technology that allow you to perform genetic modifications, physiological and unify man and machine, so to speak.
However, the most interesting approaches are those that prioritize social change caused by technological advances and they do not per se. The cited work reflects the profound changes in everyday life of people in their professions and institutions, to further uplift making use of some archaisms contrast two realities that inevitably coexist.
In Ghost in the shell, we must note first the impeccable quality in the performance, then history and finally implementation. The main argument revolves around the search a hacker known as "Puppet Master", by two policemen, Batou and Kusanagui, sui generis since the current form. The Puppeteer roams the network by implanting false memories injuries and in subjects who in the end are nothing but a smokescreen.
ciperpunk ideas are coming from the atmosphere depressing as built, but from a purely literary point of view are amazing, hard to assimilate because of its originality and giddy futurism. To the profane eyes the imaginative inconceivable that some artists have developed skills that lacks not only the majority of people, but most of the writers. To feel alive we must never lose the wonder and the genre, in particular, challenges the belief that everything has already been written (or planned). In the genus
no other figure that William Gibson, father, founder, pioneer and visionary. For simplistic is the first to coin the term "cyberspace" referring to the digital reality that exists but is impalpable. For others it is a geek with too revolutionized thinking for most mortals. Regardless of the scale from which you want to be seen, one can discover that there is more, is the spearhead and all roads lead from it.
One of the most useful gadgets is the ability to digitally store emotions and, similarly, online transmit sensory perceptions (thus a connected person to another, feel, see, hear or taste the same as the primary receiver). The film adaptation of manga created by Masamune Shirou, is littered with tools similar to this: the Puppeteer infiltrates, via the network, in people and creating a fictitious past. In one chapter of Neuromancer (1984) reads: "The abrupt jolt into other flesh ... he found himself thinking in the mind to share those feelings ..." Molly carrying a passenger, he said, and Larry does not like ... Someone using your eyes. "
This is a strange universe. There is also talk of artificial intelligences living on the net and guys who do not die at all because his consciousness is stored in a kind of hard. These entities (not know how else to call them) wander in a world heritage and manipulate the subject of flesh and bone as if it were grave units.
So the Wachowski brothers are not enlightened beings that everyone thinks. Are the mass of an incredibly powerful concept, but many years ago.
Reality is nothing more than electrical messages that crowd the brain and, therefore, could be modified or imitated. Let's wait.
