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Tetsuo - The Iron Man (Special Edition) Actors: Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara Director: Shinya Tsukamoto Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Closed-captioned Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 67 minutes Studio: Tartan Video Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-07-19 Buy from Amazon |
 "Tetsuo: Iron Man, a great movie"This dvd is fantastic everybody sshould own it,and it,s somewhere between a modern-day nightmare and a techno-fetishist's ultimate fantasy, this extraordinary film from Shinya Tsukamoto (Vital, A Snake of June) caused a cult sensation when first released. As a young man gradually mutates into a metal-being, the film takes a surreal journey into a dark and disturbing world where self-inflicted body transformations and post-human women form the fabric of a strange new reality. Likened to the work of David Lynch and David Cronenberg, Tetsuo: The Ironman molds explosive violence, bizarre imagery and jet-black humor into a cinematic experience like you've never seen, highly recommend it to my friends and family.  "shocking!"this movie is shocking alright shockingly bad.I had heard about tetsuo for about a year and ahalf and thought that it sounded really interesting.I finally decided to buy the movie and was absolutely disgusted.I saw it once and thought it was junk and then i went back and read all those great reviews the movie got.So,i decided ok let me see it again,and i was right it is junk!Never have i seen such a contrived and art house wannabe movie.Everything fails,from the scenery to the acting.I know this movie had a very low budget to operate on but even still the special effects are horrid!Not for a single second did i feel that he was turning into metal because it just didn't look like it.Anyways,i wish i could have that hour or so that i spent watching this trash back.I can only hope that the director of tetsuo sees my review and gives me my money back.(i paid $24 bucks by the way)Anyone who reads the other reviews,just dont believe the hype.  "Weird for Certain"A salary man taken over by metal objects. Without a doubt a very strange take on technology overtaking mankind. There is a very graphic rape scene which is very difficult to watch. "It can be understood on 7 levels, maybe 9"One of my friends always talks about life having no inherent value. He claims that the only thing that makes life so special is its inherent complexity. This movie seems to paralell this thought, but take it into a different more dark direction. A man has a nightmare (maybe not, reality and fantasy in this movie are about as interchangable as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum) about metal growing out of the body of his lover, and she chases him down and subjects him to a metallic sexual humiliation, then when he wakes up the metal is coming up from him. Remembering a car accident that he was involved in seems to bring the metal closer to meaning, but not quite. What does it mean? Anything? Some people believe that this movie is a metaphor for being a homosexual in Japan and the dehumanization that follows. Some people believe that the movie is about the increasing dependence that we have on technology and metal. Or perhaps it is about life and the fact that machines can do it all the same as we can, in fact we are pretty much machines. Maybe it was about plastic surgery and body alteration? This is only a fraction of the possible interpretations, but watching the film you can surely find some that nobody mentioned before. The stop motion animation was annoying. Hate to say it, but it was. There was really little to no reason for it except for budgetary constraints, and I have seen it done better in 50s Sci-Fi movies. But apart from that the movie looked good. It might disturb some people, it might confuse others, but the grey, black and white scenes paralelled the colors of metal and the subject matter with poignant accuracy. The movie was hardly shocking for me, but to those with non-jaded eyes this can be pretty intense. This is a movie worth seeing. Maybe just to say that you saw it, maybe just to remark to your friends on the lurid images, but maybe, just maybe to actually enjoy it and attempt to deconstruct its intricacies, because truly this movie can be enjoyed (understood I think is a better word here, some people who will like this movie might not enjoy it) on more levels than most schlock that come out now on video and DVD.  "Blew My Mind For Sure "we will rot the world with our love""ok so i'm asking this to everyone after they saw the film, did this make you want to die, it was just so weird. while watching it i was just mezmorized on how messed up it was. when the guy runs out in front of the car and gets it and that music just starts planning i think my eyes rolled to hte back on my head, the story line was really hard to follow. It's not that i didnt like the film i just got bored with it even though it fraked me out. But my taste may be sour becasue my friend that i bought it for for his birthday watched it 4 or 5 times. so who knows |
