Premium Episode 237: eXistenZ Movie Night
Added 2024-03-22 23:37:38 +0000 UTCWhat if there was a videogame so indistinguishable from the real world that anyone who played it began to wonder if their entire life was nothing more than a game? What if there was a movie that, in depicting this, stumbled upon the unnerving truth of our present relationship to the internet? What if that movie came out one month after The Matrix and totally bombed while the Matrix would go on to release three sequels and establish the language of conspiracy theory culture? Get your bio-port fitted, lube up your game-hole and jack into this week’s QAA movie night, “eXistenZ.”
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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.
SOURCES:
David Cronenberg interview for Existenz 1999 - YouTube
Jude Law on "eXistenZ" (youtube.com)
eXistenZ - FX Documentary "The Secret World of Carol Spier" - YouTube
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Wikipedia
Comments
Existenz and Inception are more about films and filmmaking and stories then they are about video games and dreams.
Rob
2024-04-01 14:14:41 +0000 UTCGattaca seems a little tame now but at the time it was actually pretty topical.
Chris Huth
2024-03-28 22:24:22 +0000 UTCI got obsessed with pre 9/11 late 90’s sci fi, and existenz was one of my favorites. I also recommend Strange Days from the same era. You can skip Johnny Pneumonic and Gataca , though. Big stinkers.
Christian Petee
2024-03-28 13:29:30 +0000 UTCThanks for one of my favorite episodes. I do think the abrupt plot twists which make your (and characters') head spin is a deliberate plot device to make the game world even more disorientating and unreal. I never really thought you were supposed to necessarily keep up.
Daniel Greene
2024-03-27 23:11:08 +0000 UTC
