Pulse (2001)
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
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At least the American shock cinema that this film recalls, like 1984�s valley girl apocalyptic vision Night of the Comet, had a sense of fun.
Unlike George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, there's no panic; just a slow rational realization that doomsday is approaching.
Frankly, Maximum Overdrive, the cheesy Stephen King epic from the eighties, paints a more terrifying portrait of technology gone wrong than in the bizarrely bloodless Pulse, which feels roughly like a somnambulistic version of a camp movie yet to be made (think �I Was a Teenage Internet Zombie!�).
His scenarios can occasionally err on the side of incomprehensibility (1999's Charisma depicts the tender love affair between a man and a... well, a giant poisonous tree), but when he hits, it lingers.
In his previous film Charisma, which Kurosawa described as an Indiana Jones story if Indy were a regular guy, the action revolved around a mysterious evil tree and was mostly about Darwinian uncertainty within one's environment.