Distorted reality, mutated technology

Krystel 2022-03-23 09:01:56

Imagine how you can enter the virtual world. Human-computer interaction, drugs, or dreams? In contrast, the answer given in the film may be the most bizarre - the umbilical cord.
Players who enter the sensory game need to open a small hole in the back, and then use a soft umbilical cord to connect their nervous system with a squishy, ​​sticky weird creature. For such crazy behavior, the only disinfection measure is to smear a little saliva on the interface when inserting the umbilical cord. This setting is nothing more than making the audience feel the danger of the game. that's the truth.
At a demo conference, video game queen Arila Geller was assassinated and fled to the country with rookie guard Ted Pico in a panic. Arila enters the game world with Ted in order to check whether the drive for her new game "X Contact" is safe. Unexpectedly, the plot of "X Contact" is also a variety of conspiracies and battles around sensory games, which are very similar to the dangerous atmosphere in reality. The two shuttled between the game and reality, and gradually felt the unreality of the world around them. Sure enough, after some melee, the third-layer structure opened. But the ending was not happy and peaceful. When the two took out their pistols to subvert the characters, the confusion caused by the indulgence of the game and the cowardice of reality also pushed the fear into an endless abyss. Just like the reason for the assassination of the video game expert in the film: "Because you distort reality."
The characters and plot of "Sensory Game" seem to be messy, full of betrayal, lies, and reversal, but this is exactly what the film wants to show. 's theme: the illusory reflection of reality with chaos and anomaly. Since the picture of the game is indistinguishable from reality, the basis for players to identify it can only be the abnormality of its logic. But if the real world becomes equally absurd and impermanent, the only boundaries between the two will be completely broken. In this chaos, the link connecting different dimensions - the game - is the only center of each world, and the frenzy and fear generated by it just revolve, collide, transform, and fall endlessly around this central axis.
I really like the gun made of bones in the movie. The disgusting and creative design adds a little cult flavor to this sci-fi movie. Its appearance not only blurs the boundaries between reality and games, but also highlights the rough, frightening, and fishy smell of technology abuse. A bunch of misshapen amphibian breeding plants, combined with a bloody processing plant, can actually produce the most elaborate game drives. Perhaps, those mutant creatures are suggesting the mutation of technology that confuses reality and fantasy.

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Extended Reading
  • Ernest 2022-04-22 07:01:30

    The heroine doesn't deserve Jude Law! ! ! ! ! Unworthy, unworthy, unworthy! ! ! !

  • Cleveland 2022-04-22 07:01:30

    You say it's shoddy, those props and scenes are really disgusting, we have lost our Chinese food's black pants, and even ate a disgusting bone gun in the meal, I have seen the director's filming before It's too cult to become a flies. Anyway, I think it's quite boring. I made a play within a play and a play within a play. It is forbidden to nest dolls. Maybe this kind of plot has been played badly, and the settings of the game console are quite good. Novel, made a biological contraption, but I doubt who would play this for kids? Shoot the spine first? In addition, the heroine turned out to be the villain in The Hateful Eight, with her own cult flavor. I think Quentin must have seen this movie when he chose her! There are also many loopholes in the plot, and I think these plots are not important at all, they are reversed for the sake of reversal, crazy!

eXistenZ quotes

  • Ted: [points gun at Allegra's head] Death to the demoness, Allegra Geller.

    Allegra: That's not funny.

    Ted: Sorry.

    [lowers the gun]

    Ted: But you know, I do feel the urge to kill someone here.

    Allegra: Who?

    Ted: I need to kill our waiter.

    Allegra: Oh. Well that makes sense. Um, waiter! Waiter!

    [she calls over waiter]

    Allegra: When he comes over, do it. Don't hesitate.

    Ted: But... everything in the game is so realistic, I-I don't think I really could.

    Allegra: You won't be able to stop yourself. You might as well enjoy it.

    Ted: Free will... is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours.

    Allegra: It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.

    Ted: [looking at approaching waiter] He's too nice! I won't do it.

    Chinese Waiter: What can I do to make your lunch more pleasant?

    Ted: I found this in my soup.

    [holds up gun]

    Ted: And I'm very upset.

    [shoots waiter]

  • [first lines]

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