Known for his great capacity to develop crazy cinema works, David Cronenberg is responsible for titles such as "The Fly", "Videodrome" and others. This time, from his weird and darkly prolific mind, comes a completely twisted version of a computed reality. Allegra Galler is a professional computer game designer, working for a huge company - Antenna Research. Her latest advanced software was named Existenz, probably because it allows the player to have total freedom INSIDE the game! So it was time to publish it, and nothing better to make it sell than a real demonstration of it in front of the public, and so it is done! However, to play Existenz, a Bioport is required. And you ask me "What the hell is a Bioport anyway?". Well, have you ever heard of a hole in the base of your spine? No? Me neither, until I knew this wicked game! Only Antenna is legally authorized to implant a Bioport in every player who wants to be "upgraded" with the new invented interface, linking a person's body to the game and giving anyone a better and more realistic playability!
In the presentation of Existenz, a few people have been selected to try the game and play it for the first time, along with the critically acclaimed Allegra Galler itself! And that's right here that the movie really starts, diving us into a strange world of a new reality, similar to a dream inside another dream! Confunsing? If you think so, wait until you see the movie! Inside the game the player can do everything in mind talk to characters, kill them, pick up objects, use them and lots of other things. However, as the game goes far and far, we start doubting reality itself, since lots of apparently nonsense begin to happen. Is all this just a game, or is this a dream about an unreal game? Something is wrong with Existenz. Can it be a game bug or are the players true assassins and crazy characters forever lost inside a stupid software? - This was the idea David Cronenberg wanted to give us. A truly confusing and twisted vision of how dangerous can a computer game be. The film constantly takes us back to "reality" every time the game is paused, but by the way... where is the game, the REAL life and time? Creepy, isn't it? Now add some computed character representations and you'll then doubt of everything else!
In my opinion, this is another disturbing cinematographic creation, with a fantastic resemblance to the characteristics of a computer game. The movie ends apparently in a normal way, but is it a real Game Over, or just the start of a New Game? - If you're interested in a weird ride to a computer game world, then give this film a try. Otherwise, forget it to avoid serious brain damages!
In the presentation of Existenz, a few people have been selected to try the game and play it for the first time, along with the critically acclaimed Allegra Galler itself! And that's right here that the movie really starts, diving us into a strange world of a new reality, similar to a dream inside another dream! Confunsing? If you think so, wait until you see the movie! Inside the game the player can do everything in mind talk to characters, kill them, pick up objects, use them and lots of other things. However, as the game goes far and far, we start doubting reality itself, since lots of apparently nonsense begin to happen. Is all this just a game, or is this a dream about an unreal game? Something is wrong with Existenz. Can it be a game bug or are the players true assassins and crazy characters forever lost inside a stupid software? - This was the idea David Cronenberg wanted to give us. A truly confusing and twisted vision of how dangerous can a computer game be. The film constantly takes us back to "reality" every time the game is paused, but by the way... where is the game, the REAL life and time? Creepy, isn't it? Now add some computed character representations and you'll then doubt of everything else!
In my opinion, this is another disturbing cinematographic creation, with a fantastic resemblance to the characteristics of a computer game. The movie ends apparently in a normal way, but is it a real Game Over, or just the start of a New Game? - If you're interested in a weird ride to a computer game world, then give this film a try. Otherwise, forget it to avoid serious brain damages!