Word: existenz
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...think it’s pretty remarkable,” Schneider says. “It’s a film that from the outside looks like it’s gotta be horror, but really it’s an intense psycho drama which has a lot of [eXistenZ director] David Cronenberg’s influences...
...will we travel to our alternative universes? The most exciting possibility is to use some form of biologically engineered computer wired directly into our heads--an exobrain programmed to provide a better, more mathematically intricate imagination. In David Cronenberg's recent movie eXistenZ, squidgy pink packages called bioports plug directly into special jacks at the base of players' spines. The upshot is rather like what happens to your TV when you connect it to a VCR and press PLAY. Visual and aural information from the real world is overridden; your bioport provides all the sensory stimuli you need. Technically...
...game's creator (Jennifer Jason Leigh): "They do it in malls; it's like having your ears pierced." She might be a stand-in for the writer-director, who in Scanners, Videodrome, Crash and The Fly has dealt creepily and eloquently with the disintegration of mind and body. eXistenZ, where Leigh and Jude Law get into a virtual reality game and can't get out, is more modest than its current twin, The Matrix, but it pulses with a furtive fury that's pure Cronenberg. Like the virtual game he plays on us, the film is weird, it's addictive...
...into a work camp for two years for trying to leave East Germany with Elizabeth and then take me out and interrogate me and put me away again in a work camp on espionage charges, and that if that wasn't enough they would destroy my personal existence (Existenz) after I was released. But what caused me the most moral anguish was their constant reminder that they had the sole power to determine whether or not Elizabeth would be released to go to the West to marry...
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