Ghost in the Shell
Easily my favorite animated film, the Ghost in the Shell franchise is an unparalleled dive into techno-capitalism, evolution, the nature of consciousness, the nature of information & intelligence, cyber-security, telecommunications politics, cyberization, techno-poverty, globalism & digital economics, the evolution of food and drugs, and nearly any other subject regarding the evolution of a technological civilization that you can possibly imagine. The original film is fantastic in both English and Japanese, the sequels are almost equally as enjoyable, and the episodic series is massively ambitious and thoroughly enjoyable start to finish. Absolutely essential viewing for anyone fascinated by the evolution of our species & technology.
And I'm a real sucker for Japanese cyberpunk films.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Legendary exercise in style and atmosphere. Extremely abrasive, dark, loud, obnoxious, cold, alienating, and relentlessly absurd. A soundtrack designed to get under your skin and shift around like a terrible itch, unsettling stop motion animation, and countless scenes of unsettling metal fetishism.
Rubber's Lover
Psychologically jarring, confusing, and surreal. An oftentimes repulsive mixture of cyberpunk, science fiction, technophilia, and primal claustrophobic horror.
964 Pinocchio
Sickening love story between an escaped lobotomized cyborg sex slave and a psychopathic homeless girl with no memory. Relentlessly disgusting, dark, unsettling, and uncomfortably comedic.
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