She struggles between different identities between humans, controlled machines and pure will. I think she would not ask for an experiment like this. Everyone keeps convincing her about her human self. But there are a lot more going on under the hood that the anime did not really exposed. Shes also a super computer, basically can surf through the whole network without peripheries like no one else while still command with human will. She isn’t just a female self with an artificial body but also a transcendental being without any form a “super wizard level hacker” as it was told in some of the series.
A ghost in a shell. Thats why she struggles with her own existential status and on the top of everything she is totally unique, no other in the same shoe.
A very interesting and sense making interpretation! By reading you I realized that it's difficult for me to take every little detail/context/nuance into account to describe something as complex as Motoko Kusanagi's dilemma, I think the movie is and going to remain timeless when it's about deciphering it's contents, rewatching will keep changing the overall interpretation each time, and looking at other's interpretation will too tell you a few new things about it, the verdict is that it's truly a less than 90 minute wonder that'll forever remain a classic. Thanks for sharing your interpretation.
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A ghost in a shell. Thats why she struggles with her own existential status and on the top of everything she is totally unique, no other in the same shoe.
A very interesting and sense making interpretation! By reading you I realized that it's difficult for me to take every little detail/context/nuance into account to describe something as complex as Motoko Kusanagi's dilemma, I think the movie is and going to remain timeless when it's about deciphering it's contents, rewatching will keep changing the overall interpretation each time, and looking at other's interpretation will too tell you a few new things about it, the verdict is that it's truly a less than 90 minute wonder that'll forever remain a classic. Thanks for sharing your interpretation.