Rubbers Lover is a 1986 Japanese cyberpunk-horror film written and directed by Shozin Fukui. Rubbers Lover follows a group of scientists that use Brian altering drugs in human experimentation which leads to one of these experiments going wrong they end up creating a crazed being that goes on a violent rampage killing them. Rubbers Lover is a film that examines the anger and annihilation at a time in Japanese society were the country was dealing with fears of technological dominance and a crashing economy.
The film begins with shots of animal experimentation showcasing how this experimentation leads to the evolution of humanity, as scientists are working to create the next step of human evolution this being a digital cyborg like creature. These scientists get humans that they need to experiment on as they develop powers. This demonstrates the technological dominance of japan, and they use this technology to advance humanity. This also shows the loss of Japanese society and the aggression that comes with it as the film through the fears of losing traditionalism to society. As well as this the film highlights the anxieties of technology in Japanese society with humans being experimented on. The film asks the question how humans will advance and change to technology and the body’s reaction to these technological fears as these experiments highlight these fears and how technology will change humanity. These powers demonstrate japans technological growth during these times and how this is a result of capitalist greed and the exploitation of people.
A text subject is experimented on by a female scient as she kisses him and call him cute as he screams in terror. This demonstrates the anger and alienation at a time in Japanese society and the fears of the technological dominance as well as japans crashing economy at the time. This technological experimentation also showcases the loss of traditional Japanese society which has now morphed into a beast. This showcases the aggression of Japanese society at the time with the films torture, as well as anxieties of technology in Japanese society in that technology will destroy Japanese society. The film showcases the bodies’ reaction to these technological fears as the film the film makes the audience the test subject and the change. The film showcases how this technological growth is powered by capitalist greed witch ultimately leads to the alienation of emotion. As this is going on the woman tracks down more victim’s which showcases the technological growth and capitalist greed as people are exploited for this. The film also shows alienated emotion as people don’t care about other humans and only use them as test subjects. Not only this they are doing experiments on lizards and fish as the girl in the film is weird and eats and drinks things in a weird way. The scientists end up doing experiments on lizards and fish as the girl is weird and eats and drinks things in a gross way. This shows the anxieties and fears people have towards technology at the time as they do creepy technological experiments on animals. This also shows how humans will advance and change due to technology as the scientists in the film seem to act like gods. The film shows the body rejecting this technological fear and technology is something new to be feared.
The scientists in the film talk about experiments such as cutting their skin, reducing their flow of oxygen, and having a constant noise admitted to them via a giant speaker as these experiments help them in the next stage of human evolution. These experiments showcase the anger and alienation in Japanese society at the time as the experiments represent the fears of technological dominance and a crashing economy. The film also shows a loss of Japanese society to this new technological take over which showcases the aggression and anxieties in Japanese society. The film asks the question how will humans advance and change due to technology? The film shows the bodies reaction to technological fears and how this stem from capitalist greed and alienated emotion. The scientists state that the experience is like an acid trip and use this technology on bloody scared injured victims, this demonstrates the anger and alienation in Japanese society with the fears of technological dominance and a crashing economy. This demonstrates the fears of technology in Japanese society and what it will do to people. These experiments showcase how humans advance and change with technology, its showcase’s the bodies’ reaction to technological fears and growth which is fed by capitalism and a lack of emotion. The scientists then stap a helmet on the guy as they see his eyeball on screen. They don’t care about his suffering and stick a massive drill like needle into the patient as they accidently die spilling blood everywhere. They are angry not with the subject’s death but with the field experiments as the scientist collapses under pressure. These field experiments highlight the anger and alienation in Japanese society and the fears of technological dominance as shown by the experiments.
The experiments show the anxieties of technology in Japanese society through these as these experiments are shown as disturbing. These experiments exam how humans advance and change technology. These experiments also show the bodies reaction to the technological fears as they are destroying as this shows the technological growth and fears showcasing the countries alienated emotion. The film shows the failed experiments in the form of video tapes showcasing the presence and fear of the camera and the technology in society. This links into the themes of alienated emotion as the people working on the project have normal lives with the woman getting married. The showcasing of industrial Japan throughout the film demonstrates the anxieties of technology in Japanese society witch this film comments on. The female scientist shows them the data and says she will quit the project which is almost finished. They are angry as they need more time for them to show their finished product. This shows the anger and alienation in Japanese society to the pressure of people due to technology as they are participating in their own technology fears. Traditional society is now eroded creating aggression and anxiety as this technological grows and exploits people and causes a lack of emotion. The text subject then goes crazy as they explement on him via torture methods as they find out his immune to the sedative but instead overdesign it, this demonstrates the anger and alienation in Japanese society due to technological dominance and a crashing economy as they fear that traditional Japanese life and society will be whipped out. This plays into the anxieties of technology in Japanese society in how people go crazy form this. The film shows that humans will advance and change due to technology becoming something new. The film shows how the body reacts to technological fears though these experiments creating something new.
The scientist’s ned up increasing the sound on the experiment as the person in question tortures him to get high. This causes a meltdown as an evolution happens and the main woman goes to see what happens. The subject seemly dies but does not and ends up raping the woman. These torture experiments showcase the anger and alienation of people as they are tortured by the fears of Japanese society. This showcases the anxiety of Japanese society and how everything is collapsing. These experiments show how humans will advance and change technology in a disturbing way. These experiments are almost a bodily reaction to the technological fears. They record the results of how torture impacts the subject making them technologically superior, these failed results being recorded shows the presence and fear of the camera and by extension technology. The artificial man that is created shows an advanced human created by people experimenting to create psychic powers, as the woman wakes him up, she goes crazy as the man and woman figure out a way to escape and fall for each other. These artificial people demonstrate the anger anxiety and annihilation of Japanese society as they will show technological dominance and a crashing economy. This artificiality created people shows how humans will advance and change to technology as shown in the film with the body’s reaction to these technological fears and humans are the changing subject.
The guy ends up losing his mind as the side effects from the experiments starts as he starts to overdose as he is killed with a drill, this showcases the hopelessness of the situation is as the anger and alienation of him reflects the fears of Japanese society, showcasing the fear of technology and how it will change people. The woman is chased down and gets strapped to a chair as they are using experiments to see if humans can have psychic powers, which shows how though experimentation humans will advance and change through technology. The soundtrack in the film is used to experiment on people showcasing that the body reacts to technological fears as within the film the audience is the subject and will change. The film has a Frankenstein element to it as a cyberpunk monster I created, as this creature shows the anger and alienation the time as the monster is japans societal and technological fears and a crashing economy. The monster also demonstrates the technological anxieties in Japanese society. The scientists experiment on the girl and subject her to intense sound experiments causing her to vomit up blood, as the Frankenstein like monster awakens as a result, as the scientist becomes mutated showcasing the bodies’ reaction to technological fears. The scientists and the subjects start to lose their minds as the machines won’t be switched off as their minds change as the cyborg awakens and kills the scientists, showcasing the anger and alienation at the time as the cyborg in a showcase of the function of Japanese society demonstrating the fears of technological dominance and a crashing economy. The killer cyborg also shows the anxieties of technology in Japanese society. The film asks the question how humans will advance and change to technology as the cyborg in the next step in this technology.
The cyborg shows the loss and aggression of traditional Japanese society. The soundtrack in the film is also used to experiment on people as this shows the bodies reaction to the technological fears as you become the text subject and change with showcases the technological growth of Japanese society and technological greed and alienated emotion. The cyborg has now been created and is alive as within the film the audience is the test subject and the change. The two girls are then hooked up to the electronic machine that gives them orgasms shows how Japanese society is now a depraved technological world. This showcases the anxieties of this technology in Japanese society and those humans use technology to change and destroy society. The scientist starts seeing things and goes crazy and jealous feeling that they have stolen his research. Also, the girls get jealous with other and the other guy they going to kill the girl as the cyborg mutates and changes. The fighting over this shows the loss of Japanese society with is now a monster. These mutations show the changes of Japanese society mutating into something different. This demonstrates the anxieties of Japanese society with the cyborg and how humans will advance and change technology showing scientists alienated emotion for technology. The scientist guy in a state of crazed panic attacks the woman’s male fiend and seemly kills him showcasing the loss of Japanese society as it descends into madness. This fight shows the anxieties of Japanese society and how this experimentation will advance and change society and alienated emotion.
The guy finds the scientist guy alive who has supposedly killed girls as he goes crazy and runs away which showcases the loss and anxieties of Japanese society as everyone goes crazy. This shows that technology will destroy society and get rid of alienated emotion. The guy deicides to use his research to try and get the cyborg out of the suit as he is not interested in the guy bragging about his talents and he kill him. this shows the loss of traditional Japanese society as technology is on a killer rampage. This rampage demonstrates the anxieties of Japanese society and from this how humans advance and change due to technology resulting in alienated emotion. The girl then appears alive, and they go off together escaping the laboratory. This shows how traditional japan has become replaced by a tech future, this also shows the anxieties of a tech-based society as well as this it shows how humans will become more advanced due to technology and having no emotion. The guy ends up going though withdraw due to being experimented on so much and gest shot up with a gun, this shows how the body reacts to technological fears by rejecting it scared by the change of advanced technology. Humanity is a test subject that wild change as this technical grows is built on economic exploitation. The girl the goes to the supermarket to get food as he starts to change due to technological experiments when she runs home having been spotted on the CCTV, she finds him going crazy pulling out film reel. This shows how human change over advancements in technology, and howl people go crazy form it. It shows that the guy rejects this technology and fears it as the change and technology growth scares people.
He ends up going crazy form this as the film develops them as he sees himself as an experimented-on person killing and raping another person, this shows how humans will advance and change with technology in negative ways. This also shows the bodies reaction to technological fears and how people change as a result people are the subject and the change showcasing technological growth and capitalist greed. The film ends with her trying to snap him out of it as he ends up dead from all the shock, stress and abuse to his body as she rings up the clinic to say that his dead in their apartment, however when they come pick up the body a trap was setup as they are spayed with toxic gas as they die a violent gory death as she becomes a homeless woman. This shows the dangers of humans advancing due to Technology as he ends up dead. This also shows the bodies reaction to technological fears as he gets destroyed by the technology. Within the film you become the eyes of the characters you become the subject changing with the characters as the film demonstrates the dangers of technological growth in a society controlled by capitalist greed.
Rubbers Lover is a film about the destitution of Japanese society though technological dominance highlighting the backdrop of a crashing economy with leads to anger and alienation.
