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Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Gymnopedies 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...

Matthew C. I will try to keep this review as short as possible, just watch this film. Even if you aren't into surreal films, do it anyway, its that's interesting. The effects in this film are really damn cool. I mean yeah I would consider some of the acting to be overacted, but that's not really a bad thing and adds to the charm. Also the soundtrack is really good, would recommend to listen to it.

Boba_Fett1138 This is definitely one unusual and fine directed movie but it's not quite interesting enough to hold my interest throughout.I absolutely loved the movie for its first part but the movie sort of start to loose it more toward its end. It's already a strange movie for most part but toward the ending things start to make even less sense and you basically start to have no idea anymore what is happening on the screen. You could say that the movie is too long, even though its barely over an hour short. Things in this movie could and should had been wrapped up sooner and perhaps would had been a better watch if it was going somewhere different with its story toward the end.But for most part "Tetsuo" is simply being a visual experience. Just like the original short it got based on, by the same director, the movie focuses on its images and is all about its overall visual orientated directing approach, that makes the movie one weird and intense trip. It's really an artistic movie, that once more shows that movies don't necessarily need to have a real story or point in it to make an intriguing watch.Good and interesting, for most part, if you like 'different' and more artistic cinema.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Vickneswaran Arumugam Just watched this movie last night, after hearing about it's comparison with another surrealist movie, Eraserhead. To compare both movies as the same is quite illogical really, the similarities are the analog method of filming and the industrial setting, but that's where the similarities end. This film is not for everyone, or to be precise a casual viewer. Those into mind-trips would enjoy this one, i did too, but in my personal view it's been over hyped really. It's a decent story, but the highs of this film has to be the special effects and the background score of which was made with minimal budget. Credit has to be given for Shinya Tsukamoto for his excellent effort. Overall, an above average film that might turn off some, but will linger in the thoughts of all for some time.