Pulse 4K 2001 Ultra HD 2160p

Storyline
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?

User Review
At this point, there could have been a rave review, mentioning the philosophical underpinnings of the movie, its social aspects, and the subtle metaphors that incriminate the modern, technological structure of life. There could have been, but there won't be, for the reason that the movie, while having all of the above, seemed to me to be very average in terms of the realization of the ideas put into it. It's not the first time I've encountered a situation when Japanese filmmakers, who are certainly delicate and sensitive natures and have a lot of interesting ideas behind their backs, fail to adequately realize their ideas directly on the screen.

In this case, however, the very notion of cinematic 'adequacy' is too ambiguous. We are used to the idea that the gun on the wall must go off, but Asians obviously have a completely different viewpoint on the laws of dramaturgy. What irritated me the most in the movie 'Pulse' were the plot details and even whole lines that hung in the void, sacrificed to the general line, more philosophical than eventual. As a result, many things were left unexplained: what kind of program was Taguchi doing, what kind of forbidden zone did he create in his apartment, how did the head of the flower store know about the red ribbon, why did some characters disappear on their own while others fell into suicidal-neurotic anabiosis, and, in fact, what was THEIR motivation and methods of communication?

In any case, for all these scriptural strains, 'Pulse' still doesn't leave the feeling of a bad movie. It feels like the authors tried their best to convey to their audience the ideas of human loneliness in this world filled with digital, indifferent communication. It is known that the Japanese, with their incredible population density, have a tendency to create a personal space of huge dimensions and feel their loneliness inside this cocoon more acutely than others.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (53.1 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Info Audio

#Japanese: FLAC 2.0
#Japanese: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Info Subtitles

English, Mandarin (Traditional), French (Parisian), German, Italian.