Ghost in the Shell (2017) poster
2017 · sci-fi · drama · action · supernatural

Ghost in the Shell

Directed by Rupert Sanders1h 47m2017
ElsewhereIMDb6.3239kRT43%Metacritic52
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • inventive
  • twisty
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Our read · Ghost in the Shell (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want glossy cyberpunk mood about identity inside a synthetic body.

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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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