The Spoiler Room halfheartedly presents Ghost in the Shell (or homage my bakya!)

was actually contemplating on making a review of GHOST IN THE SHELL, that animé full-length film i recently watched courtesy of len's vcd. also viewed that interesting link about this film's frame by frame analysis vis-a-vis THE MATRIX. verrry, verrry interesting indeed...

o sya, sige na nga, eto na mini-review of sorts.


GHOST IN THE SHELL

i was actually impressed. GITS is good. it deserves the award/s it reaped. yun nga lang, maybe i'm not too much of a techie to appreciate it fully. i get lost sometimes in the technical jargon it is trying to invent. but somehow, when you invent jargon, the audience has to catch on para sakay din sila sa mood ng film. sometimes, GITS's jargon just flies above my head, unlike in BLADERUNNER where somehow, the story's pacing lets you absorb the scenarios it tried to invent, unfolding kumbaga. but maybe that's my shortcoming nga -- i'm not too techie. but that shouldn't be an excuse din.

well anyway, the film indeed had lots and lots and lots of similarities with THE MATRIX. just see the site for comparison, too many to mention siya dito eh. http://www.geocities.com/tacobelll/matrixgits/index.html ewan ko ba sa wachowski brothers na yan. sometimes talaga, when contemporary filmmakers say they are paying homage to their favorites ek, i have the feeling it's really just a hifalutin way of saying kinopya ko yung concept!!!!!!!!!!!! but i'm just bitching. maybe. tingnan mo si jlo. sabi niya paying homage siya sa FLASHDANCE dun sa isang video niya. but if you look at it closely, hello, they really imitated the film frame by frame! grabeh! iba rin kasi pag sinasabi ng artists na all-out borrowing cum influencing chuva talaga yung work nila ng isang work na very influential ek sa kanila, like what paula abdul said of her COLDHEARTED video when it borrowed elements from the bob fosse bioflick ALL THAT JAZZ. syempre lola paula redid all the choreo -- much better than fosse's sometimes, ha. yun. but i digressed too much here na. heniwey.

where were we? homage. oh yeah. parang yung isang aktor sa dos na nasa siyete na ngayon nung nagdirek siya ng commercial at gusto niyang mag-pay homage sa new york daw by imitating the ny look sa tvc. sabi ng kasama niya, ah, like woody allen's new york look? sabi ni aktor -- "who's woody allen?"

naturingan siyang nag-aral ng film sa ny, di nya kilala si woody allen. eheh. but i digressed again...

sarap mag-digress...

ala na kasi akong masabi sa GITS...except that it's also too philosophical, too much contemplation on life ek, but not in the pop-level way that the wachowskis did sa THE MATRIX, na talaga namang naroon din ang of simulation and simulacra chuvaness ni baudellaird ba yun (did i spell that right?) and other philosophical-spiritual meanderings ng magkapatid. pop level is good. the animé wasn\'t that pop. pa-profound, oo, minsan ganun eh. but again, that's just me.


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