Help Me
Tetsuo becomes a giant mass of pain and rage in the Olympic stadium, even swallowing up his friends. The imagery of the giant mass Tetsuo becomes represents the horror of destruction man can become when they are consumed by the feelings of violence.
Alone
We see a shot that pulls away from the young boy standing before the overstuffed door and crying. Here, we see the loneliness in the imagery when the child is seen consumed by the stacks of lonely hallways leading to unopened doors. All of this imagery is situated in a dark tone of color that surrounds the child.
Eradication
In the opening of the film, we watch as a bomb consumes Tokyo, leaving it in rubble. The imagery evokes a correlation to the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII, and puts us immediately in the midst of a city rebuilt from the ashes of war.
From the Ashes
We watch as the destroyed city of Tokyo has been rebuilt from the ashes. The imagery literally tells us this as we see the ash of the bombing disappear as Neo Tokyo is revealed decades later. It shows that out of the ashes of such atrocity life can be rebuilt.
