EXistenZ

eXistenZ is a 1999 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg.

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The story is based on the confusion between reality and virtual reality as the characters move in and out of a role-playing computer game called eXistenZ, the aim of which is unknown. The players are linked to the virtual world of the game by a console that resembles a living lump of animal tissue which is connected to the player's nervous system through a 'bio-port' drilled in the player's lower back; however, near the end of the film the gamers seem to be connected to the virtual world by electronic devices connected to their heads and wrists. The ending, immediately following that switch into what appears to be a real world in which gamers were merely playing virtual reality, with electronic devices on their hands and wrists, leaves open the question of whether they were actually in the real world. The point dramatized is clear, if a future of such virtual reality exists, we will never be able to discern what is real and what is another game, or, even more frightening, we will never be able to get out of a game because we would (as depicted in the movie) begin and finish games within games and thus be into so many layers of virtual reality that we may never regain our hold on actual reality (and were we to do so, we wouldn't be able to prove it).

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David Cronenberg: David Paul Cronenberg (born March 16, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor of Jewish descent. He is one of the principal originators of what is sometimes known as the "body horror" genre, which explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In ...