eXistenZ

Director, David Cronenberg, mostly created films outside the famous spectrum of the Hollywood dazzle. His films however did gather a large audience of people interested in his depiction of horror blurred by sci-fi and a mixture of thoughts related to how the human body interacts with technology. His career began with a mixture of films such as horror classics where science experiments went wrong, media theories where screen take of the world and destroy humanity and films exploring a number of other theories.

In his movie, eXistenZ, he explores the connection between technology and most particularly gaming and how it connects to the human body and the relationship with our minds. This game of eXistenZ what basically like an alternate reality. Something like today’s epidemic of second life. In eXistenZ the people were directly connected to the game pod. People actually had a plug insert in their spine called a Bio port. The movie begins with what seems to be a promotion for a young designer, Alegra, and her new game. The game is mixture of small missions where the objective is mostly unknown there is the usual killing and discovering of objects. As the game unravels it becomes confusing for the players to distinguish between reality and the game world. At the end of the movie you discovered that the players we in the game right from the very start. The whole story line of Alegra being the designer of the game and running from an organisation trying to destroy her game pod was the actually game. In the end Alegra is the killer against the games.

It was a complicated film that had to be followed carefully in order to understand exactly what was going on but it was an extremely interesting play on reality and the game world and a weird way of showing the relationship between technology and the human body.