Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears
- sombre
- kinetic
- cold
- twisty
Sombre, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation.
Our read · Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · animation · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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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The shape of Ghost in the Shell
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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