Tetsuo: The Iron Man

     This particular art film has an incredible idea that is executed brilliantly. It's in Japanese (hopefully with subtitles) and is very cleverly filmed and edited. This movie jumps around in time and the plot isn't exactly shown in order. There's a lot of fast-forward video and stop-motion animation using what looks like several different types of mediums (people, wires, clay, and lots and lots of tin foil). 

      The basic story (as best I can make out) revolves around two men. One is a clean-cut business man and the other is a professional runner. The runner has inserted a rusty pipe into his leg, a reason is not given. The runner screams in pain and runs into the street where he is hit by a car driven by the businessman, who with his girlfriend dump their automotive victim into a nearby ditch and proceed to make love while the dying runner lies in the ditch watching them. 

      Businessman begins to have real troubles though when a transistor-looking zit appears on his face due to a small cut from a clean new razor. When touched, it pops and gets worse. He then begins to rapidly change. He develops a metal rash that starts spreading over his entire body and he becomes strangely magnetic. 

      Meanwhile, the runner is morphing into a supernatural being bent on destroying Mr. Businessman. The story slowly becomes a strange game of good vs. evil. Clean metal is good and rusty metal is evil. Eventually, since neither one of them can manage to win against the other, they decide to unite and turn the entire world into metal, then rust it all just for the fun of it. A truly fascinating movie to watch...on drugs.