#073: (Pt. 2) The Matrix / Ghost in the Shell (2017)

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this half of our discussion of the “weird conceptual sandwich” that is THE MATRIX and GHOST IN THE SHELL, we puzzle over why the latter hyper-stylish, cerebral film fails where the former succeeds. The two films ultimately have different aims, but their approaches are surprisingly similar — though it’s how they differ that’s most telling. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE MATRIX, GHOST IN THE SHELL, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: * Keith: Makoto Shinkai’s YOUR NAME and David Cronenberg’s EXISTENZ * Genevieve: Netflix’s FIVE CAME BACK * Tasha: Jonathan Glazer’s UNDER THE SKIN * Scott: Oz Perkins’ I AM THE PRETTY THING THAT LIVES IN THE HOUSE and THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:05.0	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living
0:11.5	we may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:18.2	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:24.7	I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with...
0:26.4	Keithups.
0:27.2	Genevieve Kosky.
0:28.1	Scott Tobias.
0:29.2	On the first half of this episode pairing, we looked at the Wachowski Siblings' groundbreaking 1999 science fiction story of The Matrix.
0:35.8	In this half, we'll talk about the weird conceptual sandwich
0:38.2	that links it with ghost in the shell, the embattled new cyberpunk thriller starring Scarlett
0:42.6	Johansson as Major, an android with a human brain stolen from an unwiddling victim and
0:47.1	reprogrammed to make her the perfect soldier. In the film, Major questions her humanity and
0:52.1	whether she has a soul, and she gets a push from a terrorist named Cousay, played by Michael Pitt, who has a series of connections with her
0:58.0	that she doesn't anticipate. Like The Matrix, Ghost in the Shell is a visually complicated
1:02.2	film that's meant to be groundbreaking, and meant to touch on big, earth-shaking ideas about who
1:06.6	we are and where identity springs from. In practice, we'll see if we can reconcile this movie's ghost with its shell.
1:14.6	You are the first of you kind, but you're not invulnerable.
1:18.9	Maybe next time you can design me better.
1:25.6	Everyone around me, they feel connected to something.
1:30.3	Connected to something I'm not.
1:35.3	Everything they told you was a lie.
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