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Published: April 18, 2017, 6:12 a.m.

Future\xa0City \n\n

Where is this movie taking place? Was it\xa0made explicit? We\u2019re thinking neo-Tokyo but what\u2019s really interesting is the lengths they went to in order to make New Zealand look like a retro-futuristic Asian city.

\n\n Cyberpunk \n\n

Roots in Neuromancer etc. The rising Asian power of the period (Japan) and the mixing of western and eastern aesthetics.

\n\n Robots! \n\n

And robot materials. Robot doctors. Metamaterials. Biorobots and cyborgs. Metal vs biomech. Blending in. Squishiness.

\n\n Robot eyes \n\n

Networked AR lens implants. Batou had a whole suite of EM filters! Thermal, night vision, and x-ray. X-ray! Otherwise known as \u201ccancer mode.\u201d How x-rays work and the danger he must posing to everyone around him.

\n\n Invisibility Cloaks \n\n

Harry potter and\xa0Predator. First Predator vision, now predator invisisuit! Bending different frequencies of light around objects cloaked with\xa0metamaterials.

\n\n Memory and Self \n\n

Memory \u201cglitch\u201d medication. Implanting learning. Wiping memories and adapting brains to new bodies.

\n\n Man \xa0vs Machine \n\n

The potential foreignness of artificial intelligence. The human brain as a meaning-making machine. Melding with the machines.

\n\n Nature of Self \n\n

And dualism and the great questions raised in the original film.

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