PULSE makes perfect sense in light of Japan's -at the time of the film's release- fall from economic dominance, and it's high suicide rate (30k+ / year). This movie, unlike the pallid American remake, has a blighted atmosphere of inescapable doom. From the opening scene we realize that no one is safe, and nothing will escape the encroaching darkness.
The internet, its users, and the world at large are under attack by spirits that have overrun the afterlife, and spilled back into the land of the isolated living. This brings us a host of grim images in an ever more suffocating death-scape. A tremendous ghost story, PULSE is also a terrifying allegory of cold, empty modernity...
The internet, its users, and the world at large are under attack by spirits that have overrun the afterlife, and spilled back into the land of the isolated living. This brings us a host of grim images in an ever more suffocating death-scape. A tremendous ghost story, PULSE is also a terrifying allegory of cold, empty modernity...