Maybe we can go to the moon, but humans still can't fully understand their own minds. ――KavkaLu
Civic TV is a pornographic-themed TV station. The business manager Max’s job is eye-catching. He is responsible for collecting pornographic films from all over the country and coordinating transactions. His work must constantly consider the tastes of the audience. No, the East has become Selling point. They also tried their best to illegally intercept satellite video from other countries for the audience rating. A short segment of Malaysia’s realistic and abused SM film "Videodrome" caught Max’s attention... He asked his partner to follow this station. To find out the source. Max participated in a TV interview. In the face of the host’s questioning, he put forward his views on pornographic culture, allowing the audience to look for hallucinations and diarrhea, thereby reducing self-pressure and reducing the chance of crime. In a society dominated by materials, people use various methods to relieve pressure, talk and spy torture, and industrialized urban people are squeezed in the concrete body. Max understands that the audience is God and their orientation is the possibility of survival, so he asked the producer to make SM TV programs. Max’s girlfriend, Nicki, is the host of a radio emotional talk show, and she likes SM TV. SM's "Videodrome" video in Max's hands excites her, and it is obvious that she has a tendency to be abused. She yearns for possession and abuse by men. Under Nicki's suggestion, they began to look for alternative stimulation. At Nicki's request, Max stimulated her with a needle, which made Nicki very excited. She was madly intertwined with Max, eager to be swallowed. This kind of video made her eager to give it a try, so she signed up for the show called "Videodrome", which made Max unhappy. And the producer brought him even more terrible news. The material of "Videodrome" is real. It is not only a battered TV, but also a black hand of political violence. Its end is death. The director will not give us traditional stories, his films always have magical variations. The director used a photo of the moon landing in Max's room to prove the limitation of his cognition. Maybe we can go to the moon, but humans still can't fully understand their own minds. After watching the videotape, Max’s actions have changed. He has hallucinations of violence and is unable to control himself. These seem to be related to Professor Brian. The video tape sent by Brian took Max into the abyss, and the thin walls of reality were occupied by illusions. He seemed to be hypnotized. Does the scene of him kissing his girlfriend on TV and the hand sticking out from the TV have a chance with the later Japanese film "Midnight Ring"? ! The constant illusions of sadism made him sleepless. It also made him completely lost. As a special effect in the 1980s, the director is at the forefront. The picture of Max putting his hands into his belly is very realistic and oppresses your visual nerves. These shock your senses again and again in the film, making people suffocated in panic. The nausea of the main brain death of "TV Arena" is the same as that of "The Flies", a lot of flesh and blood... He gradually no longer believes in himself, he is bewitched by the illusory world (the icon is TV), enters according to the setting They circled until he squeezed the trigger with his gun against his temple. There is only darkness on the screen! It is worth mentioning that the Japanese culture involved in it is also interesting. The horned son in the doll expresses the privacy of oriental eroticism. David Knenberg has always pursued photography, and he is deliberately empty. It shows the uplift of the pillars, full of erotic metaphors. In the film, the scene of old people in the slums gathering together to watch pornographic TV also confirms the original needs of mankind. The director responded with such a film that the world has been occupied by media violence (the subsequent powerful group), and ordinary people are deeply trapped. Among them (the metaphor of brain tumor) we are unable to extricate ourselves, we are controlled by the illusion of the image! The director’s worries and this also made the audience shudder! Descartes once said: I think, therefore I am. Therefore, when we are hypnotized by the media, we have become part of the illusion. The existence of life lies in the world of others and lies in the description of others! We are controlled by invisible forces, and we have no future in which we can dominate ourselves. The director borrowed TV to depict the terrible future of mankind. We are all the same, standing at the street, no one? ! Through the character Haran in the play, he said: We have entered a new era of barbarians. The jungle does not need to be gentle. Truth died before the invention of the movie! Knenberg has always pursued photography. Some empty shots deliberately express the bulge of pillars, full of erotic metaphors. In the film, the scene of the old people in the slums gathering together to watch pornographic TV also confirms the original needs of mankind. The director responded with such a film that the world has been occupied by media violence (the subsequent powerful group), and ordinary people are deeply trapped. Among them (the metaphor of brain tumor) we are unable to extricate ourselves, we are controlled by the illusion of the image! The director's worries and this also made the audience shudder! Descartes once said: I think, therefore I am. Therefore, when we are hypnotized by the media, we have become part of the illusion. The existence of life lies in the world of others and lies in the description of others! We are controlled by invisible forces, and we have no future in which we can dominate ourselves. The director borrowed TV to depict the terrible future of mankind. We are all the same, standing at the street, no one? ! Through the character Haran in the play, he said: We have entered a new era of barbarians. The jungle does not need to be gentle. Truth died before the invention of the movie!
[Appendix: Film Information]
"Videodrome" US/Canada 1983
[Director] David Cronenberg
[Starring] James Woods James Woods, Deborah Harry Deborah Harry [Length] 87 Minutes
[imdb rating] 6.9/10 (3,923)
[rating] 18
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