a review of 不可思议的收缩人

HOOPTOBER NINE! NIGHT ONE! + 2022 Criterion Challenge Week 37/Category 5: The 1950s A terrific balancing of Atomic Age existential concerns with the era's simultaneous love of goofball pop art, from the minds of writer Richard Matheson and director Jack Arnold. After beginning with a series of steadily escalating sight gags, using everything from forced perspective to oversized props and optical compositing to convey the hero's predicament, the film switches into an impressively bleak survival story mode that ends on a surprising optimistic note with the protagonist accepting his fate with philosophical grandeur.