'Ghost in the Shell' has nothing to say about technology or humanity

For a movie that centers around a remarkable scientific achievement – the kind that seems both radical and inevitable in real-world terms – Ghost in the Shell has disappointingly little to say about technology, humanity, or how they intersect. SEE ALSO: 'Ghost in the Shell' gets brutally dragged in its own viral campaign For the uninitiated, Ghost in the Shell is set in a future Tokyo, where cybernetic enhancements have become commonplace. Scarlett Johansson plays Major Mira Killian, who represents the next step in that evolution: following an accident that destroyed her original, human body, her brain has been implanted into an entirely synthetic body, in the first successful procedure of its kind. Or so she's been told, anyway. Scarlett Johansson pretends to think about stuff in Ghost in the Shell.