{"id":475040,"date":"2022-07-17T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/david-cronenbergs-prophetic-warning-about-virtual-reality\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T23:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:03:21","slug":"david-cronenbergs-prophetic-warning-about-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-cronenbergs-prophetic-warning-about-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"#David Cronenberg&#8217;s Prophetic Warning About Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2943f1d18ef\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2943f1d18ef\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-cronenbergs-prophetic-warning-about-virtual-reality\/#%E2%80%9CDavid_Cronenbergs_Prophetic_Warning_About_Virtual_Reality%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;David Cronenberg&#8217;s Prophetic Warning About Virtual Reality&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-cronenbergs-prophetic-warning-about-virtual-reality\/#Cronenberg_Makes_a_Video_Game_in_eXistenZ\" >Cronenberg Makes a Video Game in eXistenZ<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-cronenbergs-prophetic-warning-about-virtual-reality\/#Jude_Law_and_Jennifer_Jason_Leigh_Get_Virtual_in_eXistenZ\" >Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh Get Virtual in eXistenZ<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-cronenbergs-prophetic-warning-about-virtual-reality\/#Philip_K_Dick_Meets_Body_Horror\" >Philip K. Dick Meets Body Horror<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-cronenbergs-prophetic-warning-about-virtual-reality\/#The_Disease_of_Ideology_and_Entertainment_in_eXistenZ\" >The Disease of Ideology and Entertainment in eXistenZ<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDavid_Cronenbergs_Prophetic_Warning_About_Virtual_Reality%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;David Cronenberg&#8217;s Prophetic Warning About Virtual Reality&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\nJennifer Jason Leigh, in one of her best performances, portrays video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> developer Allegra Geller in <strong>David Cronenberg\u2019s <em>eXistenZ<\/em><\/strong>. She plays Allegra Geller, a game designer who is known everywhere and is a living legend to her followers, all hooked on her virtual reality games. For years, she has been working on a new game and gaming system, one set to change all the rules. This puts her in jeopardy, because the other gaming manufacturing companies are literally at war with each other.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #1! --><!-- No winning ad found for zone: below first paragraph! --><!-- No winning ad found for zone: mid intro! --><br \/>\nThe surprisingly underrated film has the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a> of revolution and civil war running through it which, combined with its vision of virtual reality, advancing technologies, and the clash of political ideologies, makes <em>eXistenZ<\/em> one of the most disturbingly prescient films of Cronenberg&#8217;s career.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"adsninja-ad-zone\" id=\"adsninja-ad-zone-MW-Reg-Org\">\n<div id=\"dynamically-injected-refresh-ad-zone-MW-Reg-Org\" class=\"dynamically-injected-refresh-ad-zone\">\n<div class=\"ad-current\">\n<div id=\"ad-zone-container-MW-Reg-Org\" class=\"ad-zone-container ad-zone-container-content-character-count-repeatable-1\" data-no-fill-collapsable=\"false\"><strong class=\"ad-zone-advertising-tag\">MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- No winning ad found for zone: native in content! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cronenberg-makes-a-video-game-in-existenz\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cronenberg_Makes_a_Video_Game_in_eXistenZ\"><\/span> Cronenberg Makes a Video Game in eXistenZ<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-1.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Alliance Atlantis&lt;br \\\/&gt;\\nMomentum&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-1.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-1.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-1.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-1.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Cronenbergs special effects in eXistenZ\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-1.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Alliance Atlantis<br \/>Momentum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> As the film begins, there is a research and development test for a bunch of lucky winners who get to be the first to try the new <em>eXistenZ <\/em>system. But there are im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te problems. Someone smuggles in an organic gun past the metal detectors, a weapon that resembles a strange sea creature and that uses human teeth as bullets. An assassination attempt is made on Allegra by individuals in the Realist movement, who believe her game is demonic and dangerous to actual reality. Ted (a great Jude Law), a security guard, takes off in a car with Allegra as they go into hiding, fleeing their would-be assassins. No one can be trusted.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #2! --><br \/>\nShe has created a new gaming system known as <em>eXistenZ<\/em>, a virtual reality game in which the player has a bio-port attached to her or his back through a hole drilled into the spine, and a pod device that hooks directly into that hole. The human being essentially serves as a long USB port, and the fleshy monstrous-looking game system can access the user\u2019s memories, desires, wants and fears; it&#8217;s a merging of man and machine. Except these devices are not made up of entirely synthetic components. What makes these game portals different (and controversial) is that they are living, breathing things.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-3.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Alliance Atlantis&lt;br \\\/&gt;\\nMomentum&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-3.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-3.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-3.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-3.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"eXistenZ \" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-3.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Alliance Atlantis<br \/>Momentum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They are made by breeding certain types of mutated fish-reptile-hybrids that grow up and become living breathing devices capable of being harmed and killed, and saved by surgical intervention. They can get sick, and in one scene when a portal is broken, two doctors perform a gruesome act of surgery on it, saving the organic gaming device. Ted, while on the run with Allegra (who treats her bioport as if it were her baby), gets such a hole put in his back, experiencing Cronenberg\u2019s vision of virtual reality for the first time, and he can\u2019t tell the difference.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #3! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"jude-law-and-jennifer-jason-leigh-get-virtual-in-existenz\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jude_Law_and_Jennifer_Jason_Leigh_Get_Virtual_in_eXistenZ\"><\/span> Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh Get Virtual in eXistenZ<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-2.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Alliance Atlantis&lt;br \\\/&gt;\\nMomentum&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-2.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-2.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-2.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-2.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Jude Law inspects Jennifer Jason Leigh in eXistenZ\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-2.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Alliance Atlantis<br \/>Momentum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The devices, the act of inserting a fleshy pod into someone\u2019s back, and the whole concept of <em>eXistenZ<\/em> is quintessential Cronenberg, reminiscent of his films like <em>Videodrome<\/em>, where the organic and the inorganic can unite and be one. Like <em>Videodrome <\/em>and his new movie <em>Crimes of the Future<\/em>, <em>eXistenZ<\/em> features a world of competing politics and philosophies who war against each other over <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, ideologies, art and entertainment. Allegra survives another attack, and it is clear that there are powerful interests, either aligned with the Realist movement or from competing corporations, out to destroy her and her game.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n<span class=\"related-single\">Related: David Cronenberg&#8217;s Crimes of the Future Is Too Grotesque For The Cannes Audience<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Ted first connects to a bioport, it opens whole new worlds for him. This in turn makes it impossible to tell which is the real world and which is the simulated artificial world. It\u2019s like when Neo of<em> The Matrix<\/em> takes the pill that wakes him up from the false reality he had previously been living. This is a highly dangerous concept, because we can then never really know if this world is the real world or if we are just characters in someone else\u2019s game.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #4! --><br \/>\nAllegra\u2019s Realist enemies denounce her virtual reality devices mainly for this reason, which explains why there are spies everywhere, spies willing to kill and die for a cause they are dedicated to. Like the thin line between virtual and actual reality, it&#8217;s nearly impossible to tell who&#8217;s on your side and who isn&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"philip-k-dick-meets-body-horror\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Philip_K_Dick_Meets_Body_Horror\"><\/span> Philip K. Dick Meets Body Horror<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Gross-bone-gun-in-eXistenZ.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Alliance Atlantis&lt;br \\\/&gt;\\nMomentum&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Gross-bone-gun-in-eXistenZ.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Gross-bone-gun-in-eXistenZ.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Gross-bone-gun-in-eXistenZ.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Gross-bone-gun-in-eXistenZ.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"The gross bone gun in eXistenZ\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/The-Gross-bone-gun-in-eXistenZ.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Alliance Atlantis<br \/>Momentum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In addition to being a typical Crronenberg \u201cbody horror\u201d film,\u201d this is also a Philip K. Dick type film where reality itself is questioned. While Cronenberg wrote the script himself and it&#8217;s not based on anything, like Philip K. Dick&#8217;s work, <em>eXistenZ<\/em> presents a world where you cannot trust what you are seeing and experiencing. It&#8217;s like in the philosophical allegory of Plato&#8217;s Cave, where a man in a cave is only able to perceive shadows, and thus thinks that shadows are all that exist. This is the dilemma of the game players in the film: assuming that their world is real and more than an illusion, rather than just shadows made from a reality we are unable to access.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #5! --><br \/>\nIn one telling scene, Ted assassinates the manager of a Chinese restaurant. The gun he uses is made up of bits of the grotesque fish he is eating, and he shoots the man twice in the face, killing him. Since Ted frequently expresses confusion as to when he is in the virtual reality world and when he is in the real world, he may have committed a real-life murder.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-6.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Alliance Atlantis&lt;br \\\/&gt;\\nMomentum&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-6.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-6.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-6.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-6.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Willem Dafoe in eXistenZ \" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-6.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Alliance Atlantis<br \/>Momentum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Virtual Reality is the ultimate disconnect from reality, an active dissociation. Plug in and the world you knew is gone, now populated by virtual characters who are not real. One can end up spending large sums of time in keeping up this fa\u00e7ade, in living in the non-reality where we and our lives are different and more meaningful and important. This virtual world and the derealization of the senses leads to a lack of the most basic need to communicate and be intimate.<br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #6! --><br \/>\n<span class=\"related-single\">Related: Best David Cronenberg <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a>, Ranked<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this way, this is the closest that director David Cronenberg has come to adapting a Philip K. Dick book, where the rules of consciousness and time are put on hold. Only very few filmmakers have been able to turn one of his book into a great film, as they deal with so many philosophical ideas and political ideologies where there is a rejection of reality and the concept of self. Cronenberg had previously made two films based on books that seemed unadaptable \u2014 William S. Burroughs\u2019 <em>Naked Lunch<\/em> and J.G. Ballard\u2019s <em>Crash<\/em>. Both films are excellent and prove that Cronenberg has some type of magical power that allows him to film the unfilmable.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-disease-of-ideology-and-entertainment-in-existenz\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Disease_of_Ideology_and_Entertainment_in_eXistenZ\"><\/span> The Disease of Ideology and Entertainment in eXistenZ<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img expandable img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-4.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Alliance Atlantis&lt;br \\\/&gt;\\nMomentum&quot;\">\n<figure> <picture> <!--[if IE 9]> <video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" sizes=\"750px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-4.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=750&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" sizes=\"943px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-4.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=943&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" sizes=\"767px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-4.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=767&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"480px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-4.jpg?q=50&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;dpr=1.5\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"eXistenZ \" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static1.moviewebimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/eXistenZ-4.jpg\"\/> <\/picture><figcaption class=\"body-img-caption\">Alliance Atlantis<br \/>Momentum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Disease is another idea discussed in <em>eXistenZ<\/em> (and <em>Crimes of the Future<\/em>). Some players of Allegra&#8217;s virtual reality game can inadvertently give the game a disease inadvertently, as it runs off human power; a game pod can become infected, even by ideology. Conversely, the film asks if entertainment can be a vessel of dangerous ideology, not just video games and virtual reality, but films and literature as well, not to mention technology.<br \/>\n<!-- Zone: character count repeatable. --><br \/>\n <!-- No winning ad found for zone: word count #7! --><br \/>\nDavid Cronenberg\u2019s film is a work of grotesque genius. Some of the animals, gaming devices, and sea creatures that we see are disgusting and brilliantly constructed with some of the director&#8217;s grossest special effects. The way he films the virtual world of the game is brilliant, creating an uncanny valley where everything&#8217;s just slightly off. This 1999 film would be Cronenberg&#8217;s last true &#8216;body horror&#8217; movie for 23 years (until <em>Crimes of the Future<\/em>), and finds him at the perfect nexus between the bloody horror of his earlier films and the more psychological dramas like <em>Spider,<\/em> <em>Eastern Promises<\/em>, and <em>A History of Violence.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>eXistenZ<\/em>, however, is Cronenberg at his truest and his best, delving deep into his unseemly vision at top form. Welcome to the Flesh Revolution.\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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She plays Allegra Geller, a game designer who is known everywhere and is a living legend to her followers, all hooked on her virtual reality games. 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