It was a fun movie....With an interesting philosophy, but....
Ultimately, the philosophy has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the climax of the film! It has some darn pretty images, but really...
If you're going to go on and on about dolls and humans...At least make the pay-off be something that makes them COMPARABLE...
Honestly, it sounded like they were setting up for having the DOLLS doing it...But it turned out that the dolls were nothing but Human Souls entrapped in Dolls...Crying out for help because they were imprisoned...
And the big philosophical ramifications just didn't have anything to do with it...Dolls are dolls because, by nature, they have no "self" whatsoever...Unless he was TRYING to destroy the philosophy he was presenting, but it sure didn't sound like that...
Honestly, most of the cast comes out as so philosophical, they ignore what's really going on...They're more concerned with dolls that are incapable of independent THOUGHT, that they forget about human beings who were suffering...Then again, the film would say that we don't care about the "dolls", because they have no voice...but if they did have a voice, would they have anything to say? (Answer=HELL NO!) DANG IT! Now I want to watch it again...Even If I hate the philosophy, it gets me thinking...The philosophy is nice, the action is nice...
The ending with the ghost-dubbing sucks...The characters come across as philosophically pretentious with a VERY real ending...(That, and Major Kusanagi abandoning a physical body goes against the stated goals of the Puppet Master AI...A physical body is necessary to experience reproduction + death, which the Puppet Master found important...) Aw...HELL...Go see the dang thing at least once...Even if you hate it, it'll hopefully get you thinking...Just make sure to listen to the philosophy scenes...
Now I want to listen to the stinking' director's commentary on the finale...ARGH! Even if I hate it I want to watch it...
Ultimately, the philosophy has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the climax of the film! It has some darn pretty images, but really...
If you're going to go on and on about dolls and humans...At least make the pay-off be something that makes them COMPARABLE...
Honestly, it sounded like they were setting up for having the DOLLS doing it...But it turned out that the dolls were nothing but Human Souls entrapped in Dolls...Crying out for help because they were imprisoned...
And the big philosophical ramifications just didn't have anything to do with it...Dolls are dolls because, by nature, they have no "self" whatsoever...Unless he was TRYING to destroy the philosophy he was presenting, but it sure didn't sound like that...
Honestly, most of the cast comes out as so philosophical, they ignore what's really going on...They're more concerned with dolls that are incapable of independent THOUGHT, that they forget about human beings who were suffering...Then again, the film would say that we don't care about the "dolls", because they have no voice...but if they did have a voice, would they have anything to say? (Answer=HELL NO!) DANG IT! Now I want to watch it again...Even If I hate the philosophy, it gets me thinking...The philosophy is nice, the action is nice...
The ending with the ghost-dubbing sucks...The characters come across as philosophically pretentious with a VERY real ending...(That, and Major Kusanagi abandoning a physical body goes against the stated goals of the Puppet Master AI...A physical body is necessary to experience reproduction + death, which the Puppet Master found important...) Aw...HELL...Go see the dang thing at least once...Even if you hate it, it'll hopefully get you thinking...Just make sure to listen to the philosophy scenes...
Now I want to listen to the stinking' director's commentary on the finale...ARGH! Even if I hate it I want to watch it...