Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
Sombre, kinetic, measured cyberpunk / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.
Our read · Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive cyberpunk · thriller · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-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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