Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 6: Batou's Safe House

• August 8, 2006
• James Skemp

[6 Batou’s Safe House]

(Living room. A car drives by and a dog gets out of a chair, heading to the door. Batou walks in and steps in something. The dog hides.)

(Batou cleans off his shoe in a tub while the dog tries to watch.)

('Gabriel', a gear-driven dog. Batou prepares the dog's food, tenderly moves it's ears out of the dish when it begins to eat. Grabs a drink, sits on a chair, pulls out the photo of the girl. After moving a ball, containing a fish, slightly. The dog jumps onto his lap and falls asleep.)

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 5: Boat House

• August 8, 2006
• James Skemp

[5 Boat House]

(A nice house, on the water.)

"You're all alone here?"

"Koga got reacquainted with his dinner and went back with the corpse."

"What a wimp."

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 4: Coroner Haraway

• August 8, 2006
• James Skemp

[4 Coroner Haraway]

(A lab.)

The technician: "You can come here all you want, I'm not sharing this investigation. And if you're too persistent, I'll have you detained."

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 3: Jurisdiction

• August 8, 2006
• James Skemp

[3 Jurisdiction]

(A room with a window looking into a forest.)

"Already this week, we've had eight cases of gynoids murdering their masters. After each killing, they self-destruct, electronic brains reformatted. In each case, the model in question is Locus Solus #2052, "Hadaly" type. A prototype developed for testing, they were provided free of charge to contractors. Now, they've recalled all the prototypes. According to their most recent report, they've identified no defects in either software or hardware."

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 2: Main Title and Credits

• August 8, 2006
• James Skemp

[2 Main Title and Credits]

(Opening. We see the creation of one of the female machines seen in the first scene.

Along with the fantastic images, we hear the beautiful music you'll hear later.)

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 1: New City

• August 8, 2006
• James Skemp

[1 New City]

(Text displays onscreen.)

In a future time, when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix, Batou, an agent of the elite Section 9 Security Force and a begin so artificially modified as to be essentially cyborg, is assigned, along with his mostly human partner, Togusa, to investigage a series of gruesome murders.

Time has passed since Batou's original partner, Major Motoko Kusanagi, cybernetically enhanced to such a degree that only her "ghost" remained human, disappeared into the Net. Since then, Batou has wondered where her ghost might be and if the Major will ever return ...

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Scene 20 : End Credits

• August 7, 2006
• James Skemp

[20 End Credits]

(Credits begin rolling, and "Follow Me" begins playing, through to the end of the movie. The song is extremely well sung. This is all there is to the credits, so if you don't care to sit through them, you'll lose nothing by stopping here.)

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Script

• August 7, 2006
• James Skemp

Description: Transcript of the movie Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) based upon a viewing of the English DVD release, using the English subtitles.

I do not speak, nor understand, Japanese, so this is an American-version transcript. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is an extremely philosophical movie, so I have decided to watch and type up a transcript of the movie so that I could expand my own knowledge of the film. In the spirit of the Internet/Web, I provide it here as well to aid others.

See also the Ghost in the Shell - Script for the first movie.

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A Scanner Darkly (2006) - best PKD movie ever?

• July 18, 2006
• James Skemp

This last weekend I watched A Scanner Darkly, which had just hit a local Madison theatre on Friday. I'd been looking forward to the film since I'd heard about it, and since it promised to showcase a look like Waking Life.

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An Inconvenient Truth

• June 24, 2006
• James Skemp

I just saw An Inconvenient Truth this afternoon.  If you've any desire to see it, see it.  If you're concerned about the environment, see it.  If you care about (extended) family members younger than yourself, see it. What bothers me is that now that I've seen the movie, I want to donate - I want to write, etcetera - but where's the call to action?  Turns out it's at www.

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