Major Motoko Kusanagi:
If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always
more than one way to view a situation. What's true for the group is also
true for the individual. It's simple: Overspecialize, and you breed in
weakness. It's slow death.
Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki:
What is it? Artificial intelligence?
Puppet Master:
Incorrect. I am not AI. My codename is project two-five-zero-one. I am a
living, thinking entity that was created in the sea of information.
Subject, title, other incredibly fascinating stuff:
Ghost in the Shell. 1995.
Reference points and links: Animation. Japanese Anime. Manga.
Based on the manga by Shirow Masamune.
Original title: Kōkaku Kidōtai, which literally means 'Mobile Armored Riot Police.'
A police bulletin reports a 208 is in progress in the C13 area of New Port City. A figure studies a night-scope green image of men talking about programming bugs and Project 2501. A voice reports Section 6 is ready to move in. Major Motoko Kusanagi disconnects wires from the back of her neck and stands up, takes off her overcoat. She does a back layout fall from the top of a tall building. A group of armed and helmeted police enter a building. Inside a room four men are surprised that the police have arrived and two draw their weapons and go to the door to start firing. The older man of the group tells the others to stop shooting and as the police storm the room he claims diplomatic immunity. --imdb
For 1995, the animation is truly excellent.
Over several occasions, the director, Mamoru Oshii, and the animation director, Toshihiko Nishikubo, are just showing off, like they do in the long scene in which the visuals constantly shifts to the intricate motions of a city, during night and day, even in a rainstorm. It's so good, it's practically hypnotic. Accompanying soundtrack is also excellent.
The Wachowskis might not admit it, but there are roots in their movie series, the Matrix trilogy, in Ghost in the Shell, right down to the first superjump you see in the movie by an Agent. If you are a fan of the Matrix, this is something you just have to see.