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Summary: well worth seeing
Review: this is a great cyberpunk sci-fi horror flick. though rather short, the excitement and intensity is nonstop. the soundtrack adds tension from the opening credits throughout the show. if you are into alternative type, splatter punk movies that are twisted, this is a must see. next to "Possession" and "Wicked City," this is one of the stranger movies around.
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Summary: If you want to see some thing different......
Review: This is one of my all time favorites. This is the film that inspires me to make films. I keep going back to it over and over each time I see somthing new. This film blows Eraser head out of the water.
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Summary: Social commentary in its own right
Review: Watching this film reminded me of The Thing by John Carpenter. In that sci-fi classic, the man's body, taken over by the thing, is hideously twisted and transformed beyond our wildest imagination, which imparts a certain sense of sexuality to the proceedings.
In Tetsuo by Shinya Tsukamoto, the body is taken over by iron. Again the question of sexuality is high on the agenda as is evident in the scene where you see a male sex organ shaped like a huge iron drill spinning ferociously, hinting that love in our day often consists in the realm of the senses generated by genitalia and that a man's sex organ is nothing but a machine in such a context. We are just as inorganic as the machines that surround us and the iron and metals that make up those machines. As the man slowly transforms into iron, he experiences excruciating pains, to which we have grown so much numb. It seems to me that Tsukamoto's primary concern is the recoverty of the body, which in his case is almost always expressed with the imagery of sex, violence and pain.
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Summary: Way Too Long
Review: What the director managed to accomplish with such a small budget is mindblowing, however this is one of those one-idea films which would have made a great short subject, but just doesn't have enough ideas or characterization to justify its actual length.This film is open to a great deal of interpretation because it is so lacking in any real character development or clear motivations. Psychotronic Magazine thinks it is some sort of message about "salaryman" (I assume Weldon means the mechanization of society). Others see in it an analogy about a man accepting his homosexuality (which, given the rather obvious symbolism of the last scene, appears more accurate to me). But really, it is little more than endless scenes of two guys merging with machines and constantly transforming into different configurations of metal and wire and struggling for dominance over each other as their wires, etc., merge with each other. It is filled with memorable images, especially the disgusting (and, depending upon your interpretation, morally repugnant) scene of the one man (I'm not sure which of the two is Tetsuo!) killing his girlfriend in a very sexual manner (I suppose the purpose of this scene is to show him rejecting women, but it appears more to me like he is just deciding she's a mere sexual object for his own use). Frankly, I think this film has much less depth than most people read into it and is little more than a gore film with one inventive idea played to death. What little "plot" there is (especially the ending) is somewhat reminiscent of Cronenberg's Shivers (an "all hail the new flesh" sort of thing), but Shivers is vastly superior considering there are actually characters and plot development in it. Get Shivers instead, which is brave enough to actually make its themes clear. The only way I could bear sitting through Tetsuo again is to view it as a purely visual experience and just watch it in small clips for its interesting effects (so it doesn't become boring through repetition), but if I want to look at disturbing artwork, I'd much rather go to a Francis Bacon exhibition.
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Summary: Damn this was bad.
Review: When a person sets out to make a movie they have to have an idea that they want to convey. This movie lacked that. It was an experiment gone wrong. You can't compare this with anything because it is really nothing. This was terrible and the money they used to make this movie should go to a fund that makes sure that people stop making... and calling it art.
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Summary: Im bugging out real bad
Review: Will change your whole world
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Summary: Watch It: If you Dare!
Review: You need brave tastes and a strong stomach before you strap into this ride. The plot is some nonsense about an infectious iron disease (?) but that's not important. What is important is that this film is one of the craziest films EVER. Plain and simple. It's a gross, fast paced, 45 minute, Japanese movie that will blow your mind if you let it. Be warned, this isn't for everybody, in fact, it probably isn't for most people. But if you're feeling sinister, this is the perfect grainy black and white science fiction film you'll EVER see. If this is the same copy that I bought, there's a horrible short film attached to it at the end, but you might as well watch something else because it will bore you to tears.
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