Motoko Kusanagi

Description

The major Motoko Kusanagi is the heroin of Ghost in the Shell , a Manga of Masamune Shirow adapted thereafter in a Anime.

Kusanagi is the name of a legendary saber in Japan; Masamune , the pseudonym of the creator of the character, was as for him a famous blacksmith of the 17th century…

In 2030, the limit between the man and the machine are fuzzy: indeed, genetically modified and truffles of implants, the characters whom one calls from now on Cyborg are spread in the whole company. They are not in fact more but one heart (ghost) in an artificial body, in a shell (Shell).

Motoko Kusanagi is it also a cyborg of female sex, fact part of the Section 9, a troop of elite anti-terrorist, specialized in the cybernetic crimes. Its adventures are recalled in two films ( Ghost in the Shell , Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2 ), two televised series ( Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex , 'Ghost in the Shell: Stand alone complex 2nd GIG and a manga. It is the operational chief of section 9, it orders and coordinates section 9 on the ground, it has of account to return only to Aramaki, person in charge of section 9 front the Prime Minister. Although its body appears young, it is a frightening combatant, but can appear sometimes cold and almost inhuman.

Kusanagi has an entirely cybernetic body, and only its brain remained human. Like it makes party of section 9, its robot-like body is consisted of last the cries as regards technology; thermo-optical camouflage, increased force, ability, relaxation. Because she knew her implants very young person, the major has a perfect command of his body and is one fighting frightening. Like the majority of the members of the section9, Kusanagi has as faculties of hacking wider as the average.

Character of film

Psychology of the character

Vis-a-vis this change of era, Motoko, which one attends the birth in the first scene of film 1. A cyborg with a ghost: its alive part, its heart, the infinitesimal one which attaches it to humanity. Undoubtedly that which pushes it to raise questions about its existence, with its heart of woman and its synthetic body. Both are hated however but there too cohabit. Motoko is also a phantom with its way, haunted constantly by these questions: does the conscience determine the name of life? From which do its memories, its personality come? What is it is intrinsic with humanity, beyond the conscience to exist? Motoko seeks its alive part, but side of the human ones does not find it.

How not to forget that Motoko is with half machine, equipped with an human brain. Its human brain makes of it human, its body, a machine. Where is it located itself? … Sensuality emerges from it at the same time as of the coldness and the distance. Film 1 returns its inhuman side to the face of way almost sadistic in the scene of the self-mutilation.

Of share its functions, it often has to make decisions difficult and fast, with the result that it often seems hard and almost inhuman. However, all the members of its team dedicate a honesty to him and a confidence without fault because it is somebody of sure and determined.

It has known very young person its transformation cybernetic, which undoubtedly explains its permanent research of the humanity which remains in it, having its body primarily artificial, alone its brain remaining human. During its adventures, it " côtoit" also all kinds of intelligences, human or artificial, which increases its " further; conscience"

Impression

Beyond the purely psychological aspect of the character, Motoko Kusanagi instinctively touches us by his impossible search of a humanity, or an answer to its condition. Its glance itself is confusing: beautiful, disconcerting and yet curiously empties and inexpressive, one feels lost in a swirl of contradictory emotions, such pity, the desire for protecting, sadness but also a certain admiration.

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