Gynoid

Innocence (2004)

Actors: Steve Kramer (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor), William Knight (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Robert Axelrod (actor), Steve Kramer (actor), Hiroaki Hirata (actor), Robert Axelrod (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Richard Epcar (actor), Crispin Freeman (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor),

Plot: Batô is a living cyborg. His whole body, even his arms and legs, are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and the memories of a woman. In an era when the boundary between humans and machines has become infinitely vague, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is the debauchery of the lonesome ghost of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity. Innocence... Is what life is.

Keywords: android, anime, anti-terrorism, artificial-intelligence, based-on-comic, based-on-manga, battleship, bible-quote, city, computer
Genres: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Sore wa inotchi innosensu ('Innocence is Life') When machines learn to feel, who decides what is human...

Quotes:

Bateau: No matter how far a jackass travels, it won't come back a horse.

Major Motoko Kusanagi: We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice. If the dolls also had voices, they would have screamed, "I didn't want to become human."

[first title cards]: In a future time when most human thought has been accelerated by artificial intelligence and external memory can be shared on a universal matrix, Batou, an agent of the elite Section 9 Security Force and a being so artificially modified as to be essentially cyborg, is assigned, along with his mostly human partner, Togusa, to investigate a series of gruesome murders.

Togusa: How great is the sum of thy thoughts? If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.::Bateau: Psalms 139, Old Testament. The way you spout these spontaneous exotic references, I'd say your own external memory's pretty twisted.

Togusa: His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks.::Bateau: Now you're quoting Milton, but we are not Satan.

Bateau: What's up?::Togusa: Narrow, dark stairs. What's the program?::Bateau: We take turns, I'll lead.::Togusa: No, I'll lead. You're so damned big, I can't cover you! [walks up the stairs, hereby forcing the lead]

Bateau: [referring to the grenades thrown by the thug] Your little gifts exploded above my head. Even presuming they went off at their most lethal range, you think two grenades are going to off an armored cyborg? You insult me.

Lin: We got loyalty even in my line.::Bateau: There's loyalty that protects secrets and loyalty that projects the truth. You cannot serve both masters, so which loyalty is yours?

Bateau: Still with me, pal?::Togusa: [with his head between his hands, looking to the floor] All I could see... were my wife and daughter's faces.::Bateau: That wasn't your wife or daughter. It was the Grim Reaper.

Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki: I ordered you to conduct an investigation. I never said skip the paperwork and act like vigilantes. I certainly don't recall ordering you to barge into any Yakuza office. This isn't the jungle and you're not Special Forces hit men.