Crespo, The mind and technology in Ghost in the Shell, Akira and Perfect Blue

This week im going to talk about three films we have watched before fall break. These movies are Perfect Blue, Akira and the most recent Ghost in the Shell.
In this blog im going to more or less compare these movies and how the show different themes like fear of technology, and the mind. But remember these are not the only themes seen in these movies, its just that I'm only going to mention these two.
In Akira we can see that technology has taken over the city, people and government. Some examples of these are how the government uses more money in science and technology than the society and its people. You can see this all throught the movie. The city is filthy, the schools are a joke, there is no freedom of speech or change, the young generation is corrupt and always hangs out on the streets and many more. 
In Perfect Blue it can be seen in how Mima is corrupted by the internet and how it began to take over her life and mind, to the point that she began to have amnesia and went to the website to learn what she had done the day before.
In Ghost in the Shell this can be seen the best. Technology not only is part of life and everything revolves around it, but techonology becomes part of you. Cyborgs are the new thing in Ghost in the Shell some may be more humans than others, like the Commander and his partners, which are more human than her. Also we see how technology begins to have a mind of its own and has a soul, which is called a ghost.

Now in relation to the mind Akira shows this in the character of Tetsuo in which he looses control of reality and changes into a power craving teenager. Because of his psychic powers Tetsuo begins to lose himself and begins to think he is the greatest being in the planet and can do whatever he desires.

In Perfect Blue the mind is the main theme of the movie. Mima who was raised in the country came to a big city to be a pop-idol, but the change of an innocent job to a more adult job came at a big price. She was in a way forced to change into an adult, when in reality she was a young girl. She is also stripped of her innocence in live television and depicted as a sex object.

This and the website lead Mima into becoming delirious and losing grips with who she is and what will become of her.
Finally in Ghost in the Shell the mind may not be the central theme but it is seen when the garbage man is stripped of his memories. This tells us that the mind is no longer private and can be controlled just like any other computer.