virus: a book for the virus

Marie Foster (xxx@xan.forthnet.gr)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:25:13 -0700

hi i come from greece,my name is Stelios and i dont have a book but a
video-tape to suggest to all the virions...
its called "Ghost in the Shell" from manga...its an anime(=which means
that it is a cartoon done by japanese artists...not an ordinary cartoon
...there is a different artist for every character in the
movie....)....i think that any virion will find this movie most
interesting....it really opens up your mind...its about "life" born in
the "sea of information",which is the internet...this new lifeform lives
a short life in the net but soon realises that in the net it cant really
evolve...so it decides to "die" in the cyberspace by interacting with a
cyborg(yes the senario is set in the near future...in a society where
some cyborgs exist, are used by the goverment and live their own
lives...by the term cyborg in the movie are meant mechanical bodies in
human form who have and are connected with a human brain ,taken from a
dead human)...through its interaction a new lifeform is born again:
cyborg(=machine+human) + information......its science finction ...but it
contains very nice dialogs about what is life...what is
human....cloning(the film was made before cloning was made
possible...and its remarkable how you hear conversations in the film
that you also heard in the news after cloning was discovered)...the film
also features some violent and other irrelevant scenes ...but it cant
really escape its strong philosophical background....this film really
opens your mind and makes you think and question things....i hope many
will see the film and enjoy it....manga has also made many other
anime-films, all of them based in violence,soft porn and how the future
will be...."ghost in the shell" differs totally from any other manga
release and is worth your notice....for more information go to
http:\\www.manga.com or http:\\www.manga.co.uk
ps1.this was a very long email ...i hope it does its work...and i would
like to hear from you(=get a reply in my email)...telling me what do you
think about the movie
ps2.my english isnt that bad...is it?