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  Review by BRÁT ★★★★ 3

  “i have this phobia about having my body... penetrated" - jude law

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★★★

  "I'm very worried about my body."

  No truer line spoken in a Cronenberg script.

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  Review by LunchEnjoyer ★★★★ 2

  they put a ass hole on them

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★ 5

  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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  Review by Wes ★★★½ 2

  knew this was gonna be a wild ride when they brought out the Playstation Pussy in the first 5 minutes

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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 2

  jennifer jason leigh crying a single tear over a nasty cronenberg umbilical cord gamecube is more convincing than some actor’s best performances

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  Review by Kenned Lehmann ★★★★★ 7

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  This is really one of my all time favorite movies, but i might be in the minority. I can understand why it get so much hate from some people, it's not exactly breaking new ground with the whole "reality vs. illusion" theme, and it's a very strange, creepy and trippy movie. Also the acting is not always the best.

  So why do i like it so much? Well, eXistenZ has something that none of the other "reality vs. illusion" movies have, in my oppinion of course. Im not saying that eXistenZ is particularly clever, deep or philosophical, not on a logical level anyway. While other "reality vs. illusion" movies can make me question reality - just a little bit at…

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  Review by cal 🥪 ★★ 1

  guys I don't think david cronenberg has ever played a video game

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 5

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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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  Review by Will Sloan ★★★★★

  It’s hard to distinguish between the video game world and the real world because the “real” worlds in Cronenberg’s movies often feel sparse and alienating and sketchily-detailed and full of characters who act like they were programmed by an algorithm that hasn’t quite reached perfection. Cronenberg is the best Toronto filmmaker because he sees Toronto not as the World Class City that Telefilm hacks are incentivized to celebrate but rather as the sort of vague, nonspecific, soulless and slightly sinister everycity that it is.

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  Review by Branson Reese 1

  I wonder what Cronenberg would think about how I play Skyrim. He'd probably consider the cold alien truth of my digital flesh as I run around trying to jump over city guards. He would glean uncomfortable truths about human holes as I go into stealth mode to avoid the NPC I accidentally adopted.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½ 2

  "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.