Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society

Newsflash Everyone ! this post is on a limited time only thanks to the courtesy of Youtube. Apparently some guy in Japan is nice enough to post the entire new Ghost in the Shell movie , Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society. The anime film based on Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series. It premiered in September on Japanese satellite TV and won't be showing in the US anytime soon until 2007. For those of you who got no clue what the hell I'm referring to, this flick is a progenitor of the Matrix. The Matrix contains imagery strongly influenced by Ghost in the Shell (as well as other anime). For example, the opening scene with green digits resembles the opening of the first 1995 Ghost in the Shell film. During the opening scene in which Trinity flees the Agents, the shot of the Agent landing on the roof is almost identical to a shot of Kusanagi during the pursuit of the first 'puppet' in the first film. Also, the shot in which the first puppet is fleeing Batou in the market in the first Ghost in the Shell film and a similar scene where Neo is fleeing a trio of the Agents in a real life market are linked by exploding watermelons and terrified civilians amongst crossfire (although Neo is not armed).
Here is a quick run down of the story.

Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of Motoko Kusanagi, a member of the covert operations section of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission, Section 9, which specializes in fighting technology-related crime. Although supposedly equal to all other members, Kusanagi fills the leadership role in the team, and is usually referred to as "Major" due to her past rank in the armed forces. She is capable of superhuman feats, and cybernetically specialized for her job; her body is almost completely mechanized, only her brain and a single spinal cord segment are human.

The setting of Ghost in the Shell is cyberpunk or postcyberpunk, similar to that of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy and other post/cyberpunk works.

Though many people might find the Youtube 12 segment clips to be cumbersome, So I took the liberty of putting a mash up of all segments into one page for an easy access. So please enjoy before "the Man" will yank it out off the Net !


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