Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

When machines learn to feel, who decides what is human...

2004100 min7.4 / 10

A visually stunning, philosophically dense cyberpunk meditation on consciousness, humanity, and the soul, told through a murder investigation that becomes an existential inquiry.

Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."

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