Ghost In The Shell: Identity in Space

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1. Meanwhile in the dumpsters of thought: "But... But... She's Japanese! Whitewashing! Whitewashing!"
2. I love all of Nerdwriter's videos so much... I can't stop rewatching my favorites. And they make some of my favorite movies even more enjoyable to rewatch. I will even watch analyses of movies I haven't seen, and not care about spoilers. You are the best Evan!
3. great video
4. damn.. what's that opening track called? is it out of the movie? i know i've heard it before
5. is this the 1995 version?
6. Not a Cyborg. An Android. big difference.
7. I know many scenes in hollywood movies are related to Ghost in the shell like matrix but I am pretty sure that the scene before the major goes to meet the Puppeteer Master was used in Babel when the women is carreid by the helicopter to the hospital. Can any one relate these two as well?
8. My relationship with the Ghost in the Shell animations is complicated. The very first animation - seen as genre defining - is something I find fascinating but dry, thrilling at times, but dull in between. None of the animations proceeding the original can seem to shake this.
9. Intriguing idea, the sci-fi city as a heterotopia. The thin with Foucault is that this idea applies more to sociology than to fiction, in other words, he uses the term refering to real spaces with a social significance where every day actions take place away from the normal course of social functions. For example, hospitals, asylums, are places where you can not stay for a long period of time, because i f you do you become a liminal enitity. I wouldnt say that in the diegesis or in the fictional sphere this works as a heterotopia, since the characters belong there, but in an extratextual level it becomes an heterotpia through oppositio, the protagonist does not belong to the fictional world and makes us identify with them, this would turn the space heterotopic but only in relation to us. Very nice indeed, I would recommend an approach from narratologie, Gennette and Aurora Pimentel in her analysis of space
10. this is amazing content
11. Nicely done! I liked the nuance of the American/Japanese comic differences.
12. Just stumbled on it. Thank you for this video, OP. The boat/plane/city sequence is one of my favorite non-plot elements I've ever seen in any anime, and I'm glad someone called it out!
13. Does anybody know the name of the melody that starts at 5:27?
14. uwot
15. how come everyone in japan became hongkongese ,
16. I can't tell if he's bull crapping or being serious because it seems pretty legit, but reeeeeeaaaallly far out
17. Man I just watched like 20 of your videos in about 2 sittings.
    You are good.
18. This scene is from the original, old GitS-movie from 1995, right? Is it in the "2.0"-remake too?
    Which one to get?
19. You've read some Lefebrve concerning spaces haven't you....
20. The action-to-action vs aspect-to-aspect thing is one of the big reasons this movie should never have been remade by an American studio. I don't care what kind of measures the studio takes to "be faithful to the original," they're going to fail in that effort because of that one simple thing.
    
    The plot of Ghost In The Shell is relatively secondary to the characters and the idea the film is trying to convey. American movies simply aren't made like that and when they are, they get called confusing and pretentious. American film audiences demand plot above everything else; even if the characters are trite and bland, and there's no message of any kind being conveyed, as long as the plot is passable Americans will think it's a pretty good movie.
    
    If you reverse that and make the message and characters more important than the plot, people bitch abut the film being boring and pointless because Americans, in general, just don't know how to simply exist in a given space. Everything about American culture is constant noise and movement. Silence is viscerally disturbing, lulls in conversation are awkward, two or more people who are in the same space but not talking to each other is "weird." Similarly, everyone always has to be moving, has to be being "productive"; we won't let cashiers working 14 hour shifts sit down because, in America, if you're not standing you're not working; we have debates over whether actual living, breathing human beings deserve to have food and shelter simply because they're unable to work (no really, let me repeat that: we can't decide, as a country, whether people deserve to live regardless of their ability to hold down a job).
    
    We simply don't know, as a culture, how to simply be, how to do nothing but exist and observe. And with Ghost In The Shell basically being based on that, any American interpretation of it is going to be shit.