We were at the premiere of “Ghost in the Shell”, a film like we rarely saw

You did not think I was going to miss Scarlett in Paris anyway. Especially since it came to defend “Ghost in the Shell”, a film great spectacle like one has rarely seen …
March 21st. 19 hours. Grand Rex in Paris. It is here, in the huge Parisian room that the film team “Ghost in the Shell” gave the fans a rendezvous for the European preview of the film. Among those, the author of these lines, who set out to exchange smiles accomplices with the star of the evening, Scarlett Johansson, and incidentally take a full view during the projo of the film. 2 goals fully filled for nothing to hide from you, although I had the vague feeling that the sublime actress, super relaxed and entertaining, gave happiness to a little everyone, inside and outside the room . Like the rest of the cast, led by the regional stage, Juliette Binoche, Very much applauded by the public. The presentations made, it was still time to see what this “Ghost in the Shell” had under the hood.
Aware of the formidable power of the saga, producer Steven Spielberg puts the hook on it in 2008, and is waiting to find the ideal director to carry this cyberpunk universe on the big screen. Rupert Sanders, noticed for his taf on “Snow White and the Hunter” , will be the man of the situation. Its mission: to give substance to this story that takes place in a Tokyo of turfu where the man and the machine become more and more confused . No one, however, reaches the degree of perfection of the Major, an agent of the semi-human elite, half-cyborg (his human spirit inhabits a quasi-indestructible artificial body). But in his hunt for the “Puppeteer” , a hacker expert in mind hacking , Major Mira will gradually .
I could go through the whole casting (with special mention to the huge Takeshi Kitano, the head of section 9), but from the start, what really catches the retina is Tokyo dizzy and futuristic, loyal To the original work . The ballet of giant advertising holograms in the middle of the megalopolis is a visual performance that we do not get tired of. Just like the dark SF atmosphere at the Blade Runner where in a sticky and rainy decor, the fashion is to “the human increased” . In a disenchanted world, man remodels one or more parts of the body with story gadgets to access new sensations. Pimp my life. A dehumanization of bodies and souls.
Scarlett Johansson must be credited with the successful perception of the ambivalence between his mechanical body, which gives him a rather special gait, and his face deliberately not expressive but not devoid of emotion. A complex and tangled character, such as the spectator, with questions that will be more and more current around the free will of a creation endowed with an artificial intelligence (in the film, they speak of “ghost” , which can be perceived Like the soul). A theme recently touched by the series “Westworld” , and which will not fail to be substantiated in the next films “Ghost in the Shell” . Because yes, Given the applause at the end of the session and the first positive echoes, it is obvious that we will quickly find the hybrid Major hands in the sludge through an equally hybrid franchise, which oscillates between blockbuster and conscious film. And it’s not to displease us … Out in theaters, this Wednesday, March 29.