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Wow! Such a good movie.

People are voting emotionally.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Hear me out, before you condemn me. WE RELY ON TECHNOLOGY NOW THAT WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT IT! What did they countless of millions of people before us do, when they had no technology? Tetsuo could be seen as a metaphor for technology in the modern world and how it impacts our daily lives. I mean we see throughout the film that the man has all this metal stuck to him and growing in him and compare it to how technology has effected us, we have got to a stage where we can't live without it, like the man in the film, the more he fought it, the more the process progressed, until he eventually got use to it. My point is that we use all this technology and we literally can't live without it, its stuck to us like the metal was stuck to the man.I can only imagine when it was first released what people thought! "My god!", they were saying. "How absurd!", they quipped. Alas, little did the people know that this was a cautionary tale to future generations. Unfortunately, we did not heed the not too subtle warning of Tetsuo. The all too chilling end is where society is now - "Our love can put an end to this fooking world. Let's Go!" - this quote from the end of the film can be seen as our love for technology - can put will end to face to face interaction as we know it. More kids nowadays are being exposed to technology at a younger age. When I was a kid I use to ask for a bike for my birthday but now you have kids who are asking for tablets and laptops. I shudder at the thought! I make no apologies for rambling. It ends with a horrific coming together of these two men and all the accumulated metal they have obtained. Tetsuo ends with the words "GAME OVER" as opposed to "The End" after the closing credits.Not as preposterous as you would think...

A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend.The film draws inspiration from the 1988 film "Akira". Although not exactly clear, it seems like something between David Lynch's "Eraserhead" and some of the stranger films of the 1990s. The imagery and music strongly evoke industrial music culture, which at this point was really in its infancy, not breaking for a few years. This film seems to have been an influence on Trent Reznor for such videos as "Happiness in Slavery", though it may be coincidental.I am a bit surprised to see I was not familiar with any of Shinya Tsukamoto's work, including this film, despite my deep passion for horror and science fiction. I am quite familiar with the films of Takashi Miike, who is clearly a pupil of Tsukamoto.

Once again, after watching a movie where the audience's general response seems to be either love/hate, I found myself stuck in the middle of the road.I really wanted to like this movie, and for a while I did. The bizarre and captivating imagery, sound effects, music, cinematography and the use of black and white all work together to create a nightmarish experience. There are some truly freaky scenes in here. Problem is, the movie drags in places, especially towards the end, where it seems to go on forever and gradually loses it's creepy, nightmarish feel, and the endless barrages of scrap metal thrown in my face starts to get tiresome. Simply put, when the movie is good, it's nightmarish, but when it's bad, it's boring as metal-man s**t.While Tetsuo has several scenes that are really effective, and the effects look pretty awesome, as the movie went on, I just found myself increasingly getting more and more bored with it. I don't know, maybe it'll grow on me if I give it a second chance, which I will probably do, because I have not seen anything like it before.

Crazy and visceral. This is quite simply an amazing piece of film-making from the drill penis scene all the way to the ending (open to wild interpretation) where the iron man has transformed and battles it out like some live action end of level boss in a late 80's NES game.Yes, the camera work is bad and the film really grainy (at least my copy was) but for me, it just adds to the surreal and nightmarish vision of the whole thing. Why didn't this launch the directors career in the stratosphere like other weird zero budget features did for other directors? (I'm thinking Pi and Following here).