What did you find most striking/confusing/ fascinating?

Those "baby martians" are incredibly weird but fascinating.
Confusing would have to mean the parts where the images go through "The Zone"

Great fiction film BTW. Lot of people watching this, great!

"Charlie don't surf"

The opening minute of the film instantly seduced me, and I think it's one of the greatest segments of film ever made.

The ferry trip from Hokkaido to Honshu struck a chord of memory. As a 10-year old Army brat, I was aboard the Toya Maru en route to Camp Crawford with my brother, sister and single-parent father (who was in the army C.I.C.) in September of 1954 when Japan was in a simpler place. Now a "chunnel" has been built rendering the ferry "de trop". In 1983, the auteur observes that "le gens de richesse" travel by air and he films sleeping adults obtusely asleep while a little boy looks out a window while his mother's head keeps nodding.

I remember still the train trip from Yokohama on a railway whose cars were as old-fashioned as the railway in the opening chapter of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" when Prince Myshkin is returning from the Swiss asylum to Russia, only lacking the samovars for "cha" which were on Russian trains. Travel was so different in Korean War era Japan--no sleeping cars, no bullet trains, no refreshments--and we arrived at Camp Crawford (the train actually was loaded onto the ferry) in the mid of night. It was a month before the Toya Maru capsized after debarking during a typhoon and drowning everyone. The Japanese I noted were a very regimented people.