Sensory Play - Bold and Creative Ideas

Garnett 2022-03-24 09:01:54

One of my favorite movies, although crudely made, it does a great job of shaping a weird eXistenZ otherworld, making game console drives out of deformed animal entrails, flesh is good food, bones and teeth can be put together into a pistol. Everything is disgusting, but I can't stop, eager to explore it.
And to experience it all, just install a tiny socket on the body.
It's a bold and creative idea, plug in a socket, and travel around the gaming world, where the human seems to become the host of the computer.
I can't help but wonder if people are playing games or if games are controlling humans. When a person installs a socket, does he become a slave to the game?
Many movies these days express their concerns about technology, but although this movie is rough, it is indeed the strangest and most creative one I have ever seen. The question at the end of the film is: Are we still in the game? Not only asking the protagonist, but also asking every audience, asking about technology.
When we are immersed in the fun that the game brings to us, should we think about whether we are being controlled by the game, or the production company?

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Extended Reading

eXistenZ quotes

  • Allegra: I suppose a smaller-caliber pistol would have to fire baby teeth.

  • 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.