POLL DESU!

[spiderpig]

I have to do a 2500 word term paper regarding post war Japanese film and how a film is related to Japan/Japanese society. I'm VERY TROUBLED because I have no idea which film to choose. I want to do both equally badly.

So here are my two films.

1. Ghost in the Shell (1st Movie) – Oshii Mamoru
Rationale : To examine how the sense of “self” and “other” of the Japanese is represented in the film through the cyberpunk genre: the “Ghost” in contemporary Japanese society.

OR

2. Byousoku 5cm – Makoto Shinkai
Rationale: To examine Japanese and the notion of ‘distance’, internally and externally (also spatially and temporary), and how it relates to Japanese youth in the 21st century.

EDIT:

LOL, update on the progress. It's split right in the middle. Strangely, the girls all say that I should do Byousoku and the guys tell me to do GITS.

As someone caught inbetween, this is an interesting predicament. LOL. Though, I'm thinking of doing some GITS essay for fun (yah I'm crazy I know) and doing the term paper for Byousoku. Because well, GITS is fun.

I'm incoherent.

I rewatched GITS and watched GITS SAC SSS, and hi I'm going to buy the DVD for the latter now and spam my money on tachikoma models. I like tachikoma. Give me tachikoma. They are like, the Pikachu/soft cuddly sidekicks of cyberspace. With guns.