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The boundary between reality and virtual
Adam 2021-12-09 08:01:32
After reading it, I felt dizzy. I had seen 13 Stairs before, so when I started to play the game, I felt that there should be a similar layer after layer. I don’t know which one is the real one, but this one The film feels more psychedelic and more difficult to understand, just like the Chinese at the end of the film, are we still in the game? I think the viewer may be just as confused as him. This ambiguity between real and virtual makes people's heart thrilling, not to mention the weird, disgusting, and deformed creatures in the game, which are creepy, but even so, Pico is still worth it. It is unclear whether it is illusory or real. It can be seen that the realistic feeling of this kind of game is enough to disturb people's senses, which is very scary. Perhaps this director is using this to imply an extreme of the game's control of people's spirits, and moving souls. Compared to the city, this film is darker and weird. Although its overall color tone is brighter, it is precisely because of this that makes it bloodier and more direct. When the woman killed Piku, she shouted whether I won. , The kind of almost neurotic shouting, feeling that she has been deeply involved in the game and cannot extricate herself. She only cares about whether she wins the game. She doesn’t have the guilt of killing other people. They think that killing people is a matter of course for the game role in their eyes. It is the scariest part of the game, and it is also the biggest difference from reality. It dilutes the existence of the law, and even directly ignores the law. Just imagine if a person is overly addicted to the game and can’t distinguish between reality and virtuality, will he take up arms? Kill those in the game in his eyes? What a terrible situation that would be. The plot of the hero and heroine who finally shot and killed the game designer is also ironic. They should be the so-called realists, but in the end they ended it all with violence and brutality. After killing, they swear to remind themselves of this. Is it correct, or they have already been assimilated by the game's behavioral patterns, killing people they think damned can end all this, who knows?
Extended Reading
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Jeff 2022-04-20 09:01:42
The suspense is created very well. In the end, you don't know if you are still in the game. I think Inception has borrowed many elements from it.
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Edgardo 2021-12-09 08:01:32
"EXistenZ" is the opposite of cyberpunk. In any case, we will transform ourselves and become obsessed with this legacy. We will inevitably encounter physical rebellion during the game. But "Sense" is not so much the mechanization of the body as it is the biologicalization of the machinery. In other words, the machine is reduced to flesh and blood. When the wire is no longer used as the carrier, the game begins to become extremely real. The connection is erotic, the hole in the body is the entrance of the virtual/real indiscriminate, in this narrow and dark uncertainty, foreign objects enter the body, and the virus is exported from it. Just when it leaves the game world, "reality" "Get a sense of media, which is exactly the skepticism brought by "games". In the last scene, we return to cyberpunk. In the church, people gather around like a Bible study group, full of robotic rather than flesh-and-blood controllers. Is this sense of abruptness really a crude social criticism film? Is the game over?
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Allegra: Pikul, what are you doing?
Ted: I don't know. I find this disgusting but I can't help myself.
Allegra: Good.
Ted: Good? You think this is good?
Allegra: Yeah. It's a genuine game urge. It's something your character was born to do. Don't fight it.
Ted: I'm fighting it but it isn't doing me any good.
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Ted: It was no accident you and I ended up on the run together.
Allegra: Not an accident?
Ted: No.
Allegra: That's why you never had a bio-port. You were one of them.
Ted: I still am one of them.
Allegra: But you have a bio-port now.
Ted: I made the bio-port sacrifice to get close to you.
Allegra: Why would you want to do that?
Ted: To understand what I have to kill.
Allegra: Then understand this. Understand that I knew you were my real assassin when you pointed that gun at me in the Chinese restaurant. And understand that you're dead. Death to the demon Ted Pikul! Have I won? Have I won the game? Have I won?