These ideas are what help Ghost in the Shell retain its impact all these years later. After a failed attempt to capture him, a shell, claiming to be the Puppet Master, goes into the headquarters of Section 9, bringing in issues of the nature of humanity and the whole notion of whether or not machines can have souls. She is assigned to find an elusive hacker known as the Puppet Master, who has been hacking into the shells, a process known as ghost-hacking, which allows him to take control of a persons body without their knowledge and implant memories to convince others to follow his actions. The film focuses on Major Motoko Kusanagi, an assault team leader for Section 9, a military organisation in a near future version of Japan where a vast electronic network connects the planet, and where people can access these networks through cybernetic bodies, or shells, which possess their consciousness. Thankfully, this wasn’t the case with Ghost in the Shell.
Now the influence of this film can be seen all over modern sci-fi, mainly with The Matrix, however, when a film is incredibly influential, there’s always a niggling feeling at the back of my mind that the film won’t be as good as I think it will be. With the release of the American remake next week, and with the Cult Chops feature over on the LAMB focusing on anime films, I thought it was right to do a review of the original 1995 Ghost in the Shell.
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