Movie 63min
Movie 60min subtitled
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Surreal japanese cyberpunk 63min imdb
Recap:
A man and a woman enter an old factory. Inside they meet a man who attacks them and a woman that emits Death Powder, which seems to be a hallucinogen, because things now get pretty trippy. After that a man claims that the Mu are only 20km away. Three people claim that they want to deliver a parcel, but they can’t be regular mail men because they remove a lock to get inside, but the inside of the building has transmogrified into a monster.
Well, obviously I didn’t quite understand the plot. It seemed to be about things like life and death or mind and body or heaven and hell, who knows. But from all that I read this is the birth of japanese cyberpunk and thus about fear of technology. Well, why not. What I am not gonna do: I am not going to spend endless hours of reading theories and explanations trying to understand an 1h movie. I am not going to call this a turd just because I don’t understand it. And I am not going to glorify it as high end art just because I don’t understand it. This is arthouse alright, but unlike conventional arthouse this isn’t dumb and boring and pretentious. It looks cool and is impressive and, yes, it’s surreal. Surrealism was good enough for Bunuel, and everybody loved Bunuel, including me. And I guess I like this even better because it looks better, dirtier, more stylish.
So instead of judging this movie I just say I’m glad that I watched it, because it was something unseen. Also, I eventually will watch more of the same, because this is just the first of japanese cyberpunk. They other movies may be just rip-offs or maybe they will evolve the genre, or whatever. Maybe some of them will even tell a story that I can actually follow.
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