Kiyoshi Kurosawa does it again with this extremely atmospheric ghost story about the dangers of excessive reliance on technology. It is his undoubted masterpiece and refuses to play nice with the audience. Isolation, dehumanization and industrial decay all creep into the narrative and stick in your mind's eye long after you've finished watching it. Being a bit of a nihilist myself, the feeling of desolation and despair as well as the extremely creepy "ghosts in the machine" that haunt the film really turned my crank. Kurosawa has a perfect eye for this kind of stuff and he has yet to make a mediocre movie, let alone a bad one.
Review of Pulse
