dbborroughs Review of Rubber's Lover

Rubber's Lover (1996)

Cyberpunk assault on the senses is form over content

[5/10 · 3 September 2007]

From the man who made Pinocchio 984 comes another cyberpunk story filmed in black and white industrial. This is the story of the DDD which is a device which researchers hope will turn into some sort of super weapon. The test subjects are strapped to a chair and the DDD is turned on inducing a weird trance and trip. It also induces insanity and death. Chalk this up as another Japanese assault on our senses with the use of disjointed soundtracks and jarring fetishistic images. Not as lacking in story as Pinocchio, this film does have a plot, but its more an excuse to hang button pushing images together. As a collection of images or as a button pusher its gangbusters. As anything that resembles a real movie its lacking. A fine example of form over content...if you like that sort of a thing