Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
Sombre, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Freed of her responsibilities with the 501 Organization, Motoko Kusanagi must now learn how to take orders from Aramaki. Someone hacks the Logicomas, and Batou enlists the help of former army intelligence officer Ishikawa and former air artillery expert Borma. Kusanagi also seeks to enlist ace sniper Saito and undercover cop Paz into the new Public Security Section 9.
Our read · Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · animation · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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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