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+ Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex — Solid State Society
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+:CreationDate: 2012-09-23 15:54:16
+:Id: anime/review/gits-sac
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3.5
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/ghost-in-the-shell-stand-alone-complex-solid-state-society
+
+In the beginning, there was Koukaku Kidoutai (攻殻 機動隊), the
+Armored Riot Police, written between 1989 and 1990 by SHIROU Masamune
+(士郎 正宗). It depicted a cyberpunk future of cyborgs, body
+augmentations, brain-computer links; it extrapolated the political,
+military, judiciary, and diplomatic situation from present Japan to a
+not-so-far future. It touched upon issues of personal identity and
+boundaries, social integration, the nature of self-awareness, and the
+implication of technology in the social and legal definition of
+personhood. It did all this while following the policemen of Public
+Security Section 9 on their investigation of a criminal only known as
+The Puppeteer, in particular through the eyes of Major Motoko
+Kusanagi.
+
+In 1995, OSHII Mamoru (押井 守, Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer,
+both Patlabor movies, Jin Roh, Avalon) directed the film
+adaptation. Most of the world-building was removed from the story to
+make it fit into a movie, and the tone changed from often zany typical
+of Shirou to the more serious and introspective that was already a
+trademark of Oshii. Although mostly useless plot-wise, the best
+remembered scenes are near the beginning (Motoko throwing herself off
+a building and turning on her thermo-optical camouflage), and near the
+end (Motoko trying to force open the locked hatch of a tank). Oshii
+also directed a second movie, Innocence, in 2004.
+
+Between 2002 and 2005, two TV series were produced and broadcast,
+called "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex", with KAMIYAMA Kenji
+(神山健治) as director (he'd go on to direct Eden of the East). These
+take place in a different timeline than the movies, although the
+setting is almost identical. The title of the series refers to the
+fact that some episodes are "stand alone", while others form a
+season-long story arc (a "complex" of episodes).
+
+Finally, in 2006, the TV movie Solid State Society was released, set
+after the two TV series, in the same continuity, still with Kamiyama
+at the helm. Major Kusanagi left Section 9 at the end of the second
+series, but she's back on the scene, hunting a criminal only known as
+The Puppeteer. Sounds familiar? Probably because it is. The first
+movie, the first TV series, and Solid State Society all take the
+(rather obvious) idea of software-level manipulation of
+computer-connected minds; the attacker / manipulator may be a human,
+or an emergent sentience (I'm not telling you which, if any, applies
+to this movie!). This plot device does feel a bit overused the third
+time through, and the inclusion of scenes almost identical to the
+"best remembered" ones mentioned above does not really help this movie
+stand on its own merits.
+
+Which is a bit of a shame, because the story is different enough to be
+interesting regardless of what you thought of the previous works in
+the franchise, and reflects on different themes: the role of a welfare
+state, the fate of old childless people, the economic and social
+changes imposed by an aging population, in addition to the usual
+(identity and on the impact of mind-machine links).
+
+Although I haven't tested this, I suspect that this movie would work
+better if the viewer did not know the 15 years' history of the
+franchise (good luck, though, finding someone interested in anime and
+cyberpunk who hasn't seen GITS). As it is, some of the "homages" to
+past works feel almost lazy, and the original aspects are not as
+prominent as they deserve.
+
+Despite all this, the movie is a solid piece of work that can't be
+missed by any fan of the GITS franchise: Production IG's animation is
+at its usual very high standards, and is perfectly complemented by the
+music by KANNO Youko (菅野 よう子, Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Cowboy
+Bebop).
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