FILM REVIEW

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The dense plot pitches us through i might ask, ‘ilIlho am l?’. Beyond the . can hear me blood pulsing a, your I moviemaking where the eerie philosophical tract and cyber-sclence ; impressive vrsuals of Ghost In The temples, feel the dread seeping into ; fluttering of moths in a glass

jargon so fast that it’s easy to get lost. : Shell, it is the palpable closeness of you, bones. I Iampshade is as chilling as the

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and, by the time the illm teaches its Ghost In The Shell (15) (Mamoru Oshii, morgue, a serial sex killer stalks the Highrwatcn (13) (mg Ramada],

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