eXistenZ

eXistenZ

  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, France, Canada
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 23, 1999
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Also known as: Existenz
  • "EXistenZ" (eXistenZ) is a thrilling science fiction film produced by Emperor Gate Pictures in 1999, directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer Lee Morrow and Jude Law .
    The film tells the game designer Alila and a guard who enter the game world in order to avoid chase and kill, experience an adventure in virtual reality   . The film was released on February 16, 1999.

    Details

    • Release date April 23, 1999
    • Filming locations Rockwood Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies Dimension Films, Alliance Atlantis Communications, Canadian Television Fund

    Box office

    Budget

    $15,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,856,712

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $810,262

    Gross worldwide

    $2,856,712

    Movie reviews

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    • By Solon 2022-03-25 09:01:09

      Indistinguishable virtual reality

      It's been a long time since I saw a David Cronenberg movie, and Jude Law has disappeared for a while, but "Melrose" mom has been common recently. It was so pretty when I was young. Jude Law's temperament doesn't match David Cronenberg's. Although it tells a story from the future, the video style is very retro. Many comments mention Nolan's classic "Inception", but I think of "The Matrix". Because the situation of indistinguishable reality brought about by advanced virtual technology...

    • By Abigail 2022-03-25 09:01:09

      real and virtual

      The theme of this movie is actually very simple, that the player is affected in real life after a series of virtual and real killing game experiences, and becomes numb to killing. This ending is not difficult to understand, can they not distinguish reality, maybe it is, but it may also be simply becoming numb to the killing. A few days ago, this kind of news often appeared in our social news, and students who were addicted to online games showed violent tendencies. This problem is now a...

    • By Francis 2022-03-25 09:01:09

      Conceptual expression of the opposite

      The suspense is ingenious and has dry goods, but the cult elements that cover the whole article really touch the bottom line of my stomach. I am used to watching Hanbani eat brain flowers.

      In the 99 years since the film was born, the society was extremely afraid of online games, so all kinds of exaggerated worries and warnings about the future appeared, and the original intention was good. What I don't understand is, what is the mentality and intention of using the bloody alien meat to...

    • By Parker 2022-03-24 09:01:54

      Really shouldn't watch this while eating

      First of all, the two stars are really because of personal preference, and this movie has some innovative places in it. There are also advantages.
              It's really disgusting. After watching it for a while, I found out that I had seen this movie several years ago, but just a few minutes after watching it, the heroine brought her deformed pod on stage, and that thing was still moving and I felt disgusting. Can't go down.
              Today, a few years later, I watched it. But I'm really...

    • By Tamia 2022-03-24 09:01:54

      It still makes sense on today's topic, but that's about it.

      Nowadays, video games are a hot topic, and virtual reality is a hot topic. It is precisely because of the popularity that such types of films are not uncommon. The actors' blunt performances and second-rate props make the film more ordinary. Looking at the overall, the subject matter is popular but ordinary, the picture effect is ordinary, the soundtrack - I don't feel the soundtrack, the performance is ordinary, the dialogue is ordinary, the props are ordinary, and the editing is ordinary. The...

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    • By Arden 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      It's disgusting, but it's a good idea~~Jude...

    • By Katelyn 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      Look very high! David Cronenberg is still so...

    • By Dock 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      Another exploration of the alienation of the human body by Clemberg, when people become "gamers", reality and virtuality become two sides of the battle. The whole film is boring and refreshing, with rough and charming...

    • By Clifford 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      The sci-fi film made in 1999 is quite thoughtful. Uncle LAW's nasolabial lines are still not...

    • By Brenda 2022-04-23 07:02:10

      After watching this film, I realized that teeth can also be weapons! This weapon is used in two places! That game is really called a sensory game. The nervous system of the game is made of living organisms. People who watch it are a bit neurotic! I don't know what to say, it feels like a story made by anti-game people, saying that everything in the game can become a reality, kill whoever you want, but you feel that you are not free, the reason is that the game is originally A fixed...

    Movie plot

    In the future after the development of science and technology, the virtual reality game system that includes biology has adopted technology that has advanced far beyond the times. The beautiful and sexy game designer Alila Geller ( Jennifer Lee Morrow ) is like the queen of the video game world. Her design "X Touch" is driven by an organoid , which is very real and fascinating. In the demo conference, players from all sides gathered...
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    Creative background

    The creative inspiration for the story in the film came directly from the situation of fugitive writer Saman Rushdie. David Cronenberg met with Rushday in 1995 to discuss whether games would become an art form. After that, Cronenberg was born. An artist suddenly found himself on the blacklist of assassinations and had to evade the idea of ​​hunting. He believed that game design could rise to an artistic level, so he decided to make the...
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    Evaluation action

    The director has created a complex metaphor in which the virtual world has been unknowingly contaminated, and is deeply trapped in his technology worship and technology phobia in the entanglement of the plot and the hidden worries about nature. (Comment by Wesley Morris ) 
    It’s too gentle to use the word "crazy" to describe the twisted worm in the director’s head. His fantasies and all craziness have found an outlet in the channel of...
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    Movie quotes

    • Allegra: So how does it feel?

      Ted: What?

      Allegra: Your real life. The one you came back for.

      Ted: It feels completely unreal.

      Allegra: You're stuck now, aren't ya? You want to go back to the Chinese restaurant because there's nothing happening here. We're safe. It's boring.

      Ted: It's worse than that. I'm not sure... I'm not sure here, where we are, is real at all. This feels like a game to me. And you, you're beginning to feel a bit like a game character.

    • Ted: What the fuck are you doing? You killed him. Are you going to kill me next?

      Allegra: Pikul, he was only a game character. I didn't like how he was messing with my mind.

      Ted: You didn't like that, so you killed him?

      Allegra: He's only a game character!

      Ted: Allegra, what if we're not in the game anymore?

      Allegra: If we're not.

      Ted: If we're not then you just killed someone real.

    • Ted: I actually think there's an element of psychosis involved here.