watching GitS2 in a theater and thinking "this man was was supposed to be next in line after Miyazaki to make a Lupin the Third movie"

oshii you fucking lunatic never change, ever

Innocence is a frustrating movie. I revisit it every couple of years, and the viewing experience always seems like less than the sum of its parts, until I spend the next day or two decoding it and things that I brushed aside while watching it suddenly click, making me like it way more in retrospect. It's a movie that manages to be simultaneously more and less than the sum of its parts. It's in a constant superposition between "masterpiece" and "unfocused mess"