More fuel to the Ghost in the Shell Fire

I completely understand where everyone is coming from. "Of course Japan made a movie about a robot with boobs that has to get naked every other scene". I totally understand that the creators of Ghost in the Shell DEFINATELY wanted to make Kusanagi sexy, and it's really unnecessary other than for sex appeal. However, I'd like to argue that there is a little more to it than that. Though I havn't seen the  film, it's clear that there is a lot of Catholic imagery involved (as I remember she fights the spider tank in a cathedral). The scene where Kusanagi tears her muscles apart is filmed in a way that cleary glorifies her body, but I'd argue it's in an anatomical way rather than a sexual way.  The film is admiring the anatomy of the  human body rather than the anatomy of the female body. The operatic music emphasizes this theory as well, and adds to the divinchi-esque tone and look of the whole scene.

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  1. UnknownNovember 10, 2018 at 4:45 PM

    I agree and to a degree I feel the film does a good job of walking a fine line from being over the top sexual. Especially in this particular scene that we watched, there was nothing sexy about it. It was just brutal and impressive where we see not just her brute strength but also how detached she is from feelings. (since she is a robot and has no feelings) But it could also so easily be seen as unnecessary to show her entire body

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    1. UnknownNovember 11, 2018 at 2:44 PM

      I agree, I think that the film definitely did not need to show her body like that. That being said, they did it in a way that it added to the plot so I think that it is more acceptable. I think this decision could be seen as rooted in sex appeal because strictly speaking it was unnecessary. There is a fine line as you said about showing explicit sexuality like this, but I think that this scene worked because it was not shown in a sexual manner at all.

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