Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears
- sombre
- kinetic
- cold
- twisty
Sombre, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation.
Our read · Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · animation · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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