Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor 1 and 2 - The Coup Trilogy - Anime Analysis
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What is more dehibiltating: combatting the annual flu or troubleshooting the daily computer virus? The level of empathy we hold for the all important machines in our lives is unparalleled. Noa loves her Pat-chan, Alphonse. When she overhears a conversation about the new HOS virus she totally panics and cannot contain her fear for the giant robot that she has cared for for so long. It is ironic that in the end she must destroy the world’s most advanced labor, the berserking Zero. Straddling the Zero’s bunny ear she unloads her shotgun into its central OS, screaming, “Quit it!” with every buck. Through the audience’s own empathy for machines Noa evokes a great sense of loss and self-inflicted defeat. “Tomorrow we are either the scapegoats or heroes.”
The most interesting element of Patlabor 1: Mobile Police is the post-mortem investigation of Ehoba by Matsui, Goto’s detective friend. Following a bread crumb trail of erased files and incomplete information, the detective and his partner end up in the most old and rundown slums of Tokyo. The peculiarity of these places is that Ehoba could have left no trace at all, but like any master villain he really wants to be caught, but only after his suicide. He leaves a riddle in his death for any to find in a disintegrating amount of time. Matsui ends up at Ehoba’s family home, this is where the trail ends and where they find a pivotal clue under an abandoned calendar.
Ehoba felt that man had advanced too close to God, so he took away their language, the labor’s HOS. His BABEL computer virus had high hopes of destroying all of Tokyo and all of the labors infected, but the plan was thwarted by the barely capable SV2.
Society hopes it can handle the monsters it creates, both technological and psychological. The mistakes we make are often fatal and sometimes genocidal, but never unrecoverable. Our hope lies in the hands of a few capable heroes that are part of the solution and not part of the mysterious problem.
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