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
  • Berenice 2022-03-21 09:01:57

    It's amazing, when I thought it was a piece of meat, it really is a piece of meat, a deformed animal. Plugging in a driver on a human is terrifying to me. And so many deformed animals

  • Curtis 2021-12-09 08:01:32

    A different color in the wave of Rubber Reality at the end of the century. 1. The layered neural video game resembles a dream in a dream, a shadow in a shadow, or a play in a play, until it is no longer possible to distinguish between the real and the real. 2. People are controlled by the preset plot logic of video games, lose their free will, and become a hostage-like existence similar to NPCs and systems. Ironically, the leading team in the game plays the role of "game designer assassin". 3. Cronenberg's wonderful display of body deformation, parasitism and alienation: a living placenta game controller (anatomical structure is just like a collage of various animal organs), umbilical cord cable, lumbar socket (also a sexual metaphor, homogenous in [Videotape Murder Case] ​​abdomen pussy), silicone meat mobile phone, assembled bone pistol with teeth as bullets, double-headed lizards, special meals made of deformed amphibians, etc. 4. The weird performance style highlights the NPC’s The sense of puppet is really interesting. 5. The combination of a game designer + twelve game characters/players is like Jesus and the twelve disciples. In the cyberpunk world, humans' arrogance to gods is here to come out. 6. The subtle ending of a sentence. (9.0/10)

eXistenZ quotes

  • [last lines]

    Chinese Waiter: Hey, tell me the truth... are we still in the game?

  • Ted: What happens if someone comes up here and really wants to ski?

    Allegra: Come on Pikul. No one actually "skis" anymore, you know that.