A thoughtful examination of Ghost In The Shell’s artful use of space

Ghost In The Shell, Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 cyperpunk masterpiece, is high on the list of anime that even people who don’t watch anime have seen, and with good reason. It’s a beautiful, challenging film, impeccably drawn and directed, light on dialogue but big on big ideas. In his latest video, The Nerdwriter Evan Puschak examines the way Ghost In The Shell’s presentation of a far-flung Neo-Hong Kong supports the film’s theme of technology and humanity blending to the point of humanity’s irrelevancy (The A.V. Club’s own David Erhlich contends Shell “is about the moment in time when humans become an impediment to progress, rather than its shepherds.”)