Should you watch Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Anime · 2004
Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."
The sides of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
- A cyborg detective and his basset hound
- Dolls that kill and then destroy themselves
- A long parade through a city of canals
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is good for you if…
- you like every frame composed, down to the rain on a canal.
- you like piecing a case together while the characters quote old books.
- you like a choral score that carries a whole sequence.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is bad for you if…
- you don't watch animated films.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese film.
- you need momentum and not long silences between two lines of philosophy.
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