{"id":15269,"date":"2022-10-12T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2022-10-12T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:44:25","slug":"tetsuo-the-bullet-man-2009-shinya-tsukamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15269","title":{"rendered":"Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009, Shinya Tsukamoto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dad, I&#8217;m worried about you.  You need to get back into biotech research.&#8221;  Gotta give it up to Shinya for making the same exact cyberpunk movie for the fifth time.  Diminishing returns, but once again a guy finds himself hulking out, turning into a machine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/bulletman1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Desaturated greys and browns except for a few popping colors.  It&#8217;s in English; the dialogue and the plot being spelled out more explicitly are both weaknesses.  When the action comes it&#8217;s prolonged and incoherent.  The soundtrack is more pounding than ever.  The clean HD photography clashes with the jittery underground lo-fi intentions.  I did not hate it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/bulletman2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Hulking-guy&#8217;s son is run over by Shinya.  He learns he was born from an android replica of his dead mom&#8230; he gets blasted by a hitman, also shoots himself in the head and lives&#8230; tetsuos a few city blocks.  I wrote &#8220;I think Shinya wanted to be a suicide cult leader,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t know if I meant the director himself or the character he&#8217;s playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dad, I&#8217;m worried about you. You need to get back into biotech research.&#8221; Gotta give it up to Shinya for making the same exact cyberpunk movie for the fifth time. Diminishing returns, but once again a guy finds himself hulking out, turning into a machine. Desaturated greys and browns except for a few popping colors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,30,2347,181,641],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-identity","tag-mutation","tag-sequel","tag-shinya-tsukamoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15312,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions\/15312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}