Okay, my real life and my GITS life are intertwining a little too much...

Just watched this last night for the first time.

Still processing it... I LOVED so much of it, overflowing with beautiful images and challenging notions, and yet the utterly overpowering, soul-crushing bleakness of it all almost did me in.

It kind of had that BARTON FINK (certainly one of my all time favorites) thing going on, y'know?

Either way, the film kept me up late, long after the credits rolled. Couldn't shake it.

Probably a good indication of its greatness...

Oh and on another interesting note... my wife had to ultimately leave the room at or around the 45 minute mark. She simply couldn't take the overbearing despair... and she's never one to shy away from challenging material. (she had no problem recently with Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE)

"What's wrong, don't you like it?" I asked as she headed for the other side of the house.

"It's like filmed death," she muttered.

"Filmed death." I like that!

This movie comments on so many brilliant little insights on life.

The story touches upon so many aspects of being human, living on this planet...and the way life is.

Defenetly a film that needs to be seen more then once. Loved it!

That's the story of my life right now. Waiting for something to come along but also trying to be active in creating my own professional success.

However, I read the script and couldn't bear to even see the movie. Boring and unnecessarily complex as fuck