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Shelved By Genre Bonusode: Pulse (2001) (Patreon)

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2024-07-12 16:01:17
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2026-06
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What if the internet was really bad for you? What kind of wild world would that be? This episode has us talking about Kiyoshi Kurosawa's delightful Pulse, an apocalyptic vision of the era to come. Also there's a little ghost boy.

Check it out in the Shelved By Genre bonusode post!

Comments

Albedo12

Three thoughts: When I tried to rent Pulse back in the day, the clerk at Blockbuster put the disc for the US remake in the case. I watched that, took it back immediately, and they couldn't find the real fim anywhere. So, I sourced the film elsewhere and watched it the same day. I've almost completely fogotten the US version, but rewatching the original today I was still surprised to remember that in this version the kids just accept that what is happening is happening, and they will not be the ones to stop it. The depopulation of the world at the end of the movie reminds me of the end of The Grudge:2, where a similar process is taking place. An inevitable outcome when the rule is "if you meet the angry ghost it will unavoidably kill you, and then you might become an angry ghost too". The scene where the girl enters the office to get the boat key brought to mind a moment from the game "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture". In that game, eveyone in a small town has been dissappeared/transfomed into light, due to an entity that arrives via a signal picked up by a radiotelescope. The process is not immediate, and ends with the immolation/destruction of the body into ash. At one point you open a bedroom door, and inside at first the light is dim and smoky. But very quickly, as clean air enters the room, the atmosphere clears. You can almost miss it if you are not paying attention.

Patrick Michailidis

Maybe not super important but the fun little yellow car they drive around is a Nissan Be-1, a hatchback Nissan made for a year in the 80s (87-88) in very limited quantities in a project called Pike that created a handful of limited production, quirky cars marketed to young people. It was a rarity by the 2000s! Obviously the colour is striking and thematically appropriate but imo it also stands in for some of the lost attitude of the bubble economy, where a lot of money was put in to very niche market segments because /why not/? Similar to how Austin describes the desolate, late-Showa era architecture in the movie. Always thought it was a very intentional choice for a movie so deeply about post bubble isolation/depression.

Patrick Michailidis

Or if not intentional, one that helps reinforce some of the themes. The Be-1 itself is part of a micro trend in the 80s and 90s where manufacturers were directly referencing the design of the 50s and 60s with limited models or optional appearance packages, theres some resonance there i think. Outside of Japan it might require some esoteric car knowledge lol but I feel its a great choice for the movie, given it's history!

Mike

Re: 28 days later. They read an interview on the fim podcast "Blank Check with Griffin and David" in which the director said that the empty London streets were shot pre 9/11 because they only had the budget to shoot them gorilla style, and had they had to shot them afterwards it would have been impossible as security was so tight.