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Play it. Live it. Kill for it.
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
eXistenZ
1999 Directed by David Cronenberg
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Dimension Films Alliance Atlantis Communications Natural Nylon Entertainment Serendipity Point Films Téléfilm Canada The Harold Greenberg Fund The Movie Network Union Générale Cinématographique Canadian Television Fund
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eXistenZ - Du bist das Spiel
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Monsters, aliens, sci-fi and the apocalypse Horror, the undead and monster classics future, sci-fi, technology, action or technological earth, sci-fi, space, spaceship or mankind horror, creepy, eerie, blood or gothic sci-fi, aliens, space, spaceship or earth death, profound, symbolism, philosophical or vision Show All…
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"I'm very worried about my body."
No truer line spoken in a Cronenberg script.
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Maybe my favorite Cronenberg now - layers and layers of "spaces" overlapped until the distinction between the virtual and the real can no longer be distinguished. This is constructed so meticulously - placing characters within a virtual world, governed by virtual laws - but this also depicts the virtual-nature of our basic standards of living: you wake up, you eat, you go to work, you have lunch, you go home, you have dinner, etc. In-between, everything becomes a game: alliances, relationships, sex, even eating food. By the end, we have no clue whether we are seeing a "game" or "reality." But it doesn't matter - for Cronenberg, they're one and the same. Masterpiece.
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What's vital about eXistenZ is that David Cronenberg doesn't relate the absurdity of the cyberpunk gamer premise to our present day reality. He acknowledges that what he's depicting is currently happening in some form. There's no reason for him to make a statement when the philosophical questions already exist. Ideas of what we say or do, and whether we really have autonomy in those actions, is a central driving force in eXistenZ, as is the layering of space, moving from 'reality' to 'reality' with no concrete understanding of what's actually real. That unreality has become our own existence, with no barriers between spaces that were originally designed as separate entities. Our lives, from the most mundane activities to our…
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i don't think anyone's ever seen this movie but it's the best movie ever made
EDIT: i was really high when i watched it & reviewed it & it's not really the best movie ever made but it's a good time
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"But it's a game everybody's already playing."
Lot of eyerollers like that in here, but even though it feels kind of repetitive for Cronenberg, I like all the stuff about shifting virtual identities and artificial worlds superseding and/or merging with biological ones. The bigger problem is this seems like a shitty boring game.
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21/31: selected directors
Can you even believe I had never seen this before? I can’t really believe I had never seen this before, but then I kinda can because it came out during my super heavy party days and I was too Busy Philipps for a movie. But still, I never got around to it til now wtfffff. I also can’t believe that Cronenberg isn’t a name I often shout out when rattling off my favorite directors to anyone who will listen, but that’s probably because I’m a little bitter about him straying from the true horror path although even his newer stuff is pretty amazing so maybe I just need to bring him into the top tier fold.… -
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