Messy summary

Alanna 2021-12-09 08:01:32

I have watched this movie three times or more. I have watched it many years ago. The story has always attracted me.

Main line

The main line of the story seems to be the story of the male and female protagonist entering multiple games and winning the game in order to subvert the pilgrimage company, and finally killing a man and a woman from the pilgrimage company. The last male and female protagonist represents the reality school who wants to eliminate the game school. The reason given in the last scene is "because you distorted reality".

identity

In multiple game worlds, assign them to their respective identities in the division of labor in this game. There are opponents of the game, video game designers,/bodyguards, people who use air guns to help open sockets, people who repair drivers, people who sell drivers, general workers who produce drivers,/people who provide clues and weapons, etc.

Scenes

Game conference, gas station, second game world store, third game world farm

Game world finishing

In the first game world, the heroine represents the game faction, and everyone else seems to represent the reality faction. Everyone is trying to kill the heroine, the video game designer's gaming faction, and destroy the drive.

The second world seems to only give the drive and some clues to enter the third game world.

The main content of the third game world is to find weapons according to clues, kill the waiter, prove that he is a realist, and finally infect the driver and return to the first game world.

Among them, the video game designer Norish of the third game world has clearly stated that the purpose of the mission is to destroy the real enemies, as well as destroy the farms and drives. An NPC in the second world talked about the waiter being a double agent.

Game winning conditions

The condition for the real faction to win the task is to infect the drive and kill the game faction; and the condition for the game faction to win is to kill all the real factions.

simile

Like playing three killed, realists have clear surface lord a care of the household, loyal maintenance man, a traitor waiter, Jude Law is installed loyalists Rebels Rebels and other real school.

finally

The reason why the real world is not still in the game is because the drive of the pilgrimage has not been infected, and there is no in-game identity verification process, and the weapon has not been obtained such a process. Moreover, the second and third worlds do not have the result of a game victory, which indirectly proves that only the first game world is a game, and the other two worlds only serve the first game.

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Extended Reading
  • Graciela 2022-04-22 07:01:30

    No.87 Isn't this Nima the prototype of #piratedream#? How much David Cronenberg likes those disgusting things and blood, a good movie has to make it disgusting.

  • Orrin 2022-04-22 07:01:30

    The basic core of human brutality will not fade away, and there must be rules of the game in the virtual world. In the absence of moral restraint, human beings will lose the sense of touch, become cold-blooded and cruel, and constantly dilute the boundaries between the real world and the virtual world, until they lose their senses and lose themselves. Judging from the background of the film's birth - the new economic era, Cronenberg did have an early insight into the hidden dangers that the Internet age will bring to human beings, and his consciousness is so sharp.

eXistenZ quotes

  • Ted: [points gun at Allegra's head] Death to the demoness, Allegra Geller.

    Allegra: That's not funny.

    Ted: Sorry.

    [lowers the gun]

    Ted: But you know, I do feel the urge to kill someone here.

    Allegra: Who?

    Ted: I need to kill our waiter.

    Allegra: Oh. Well that makes sense. Um, waiter! Waiter!

    [she calls over waiter]

    Allegra: When he comes over, do it. Don't hesitate.

    Ted: But... everything in the game is so realistic, I-I don't think I really could.

    Allegra: You won't be able to stop yourself. You might as well enjoy it.

    Ted: Free will... is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours.

    Allegra: It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.

    Ted: [looking at approaching waiter] He's too nice! I won't do it.

    Chinese Waiter: What can I do to make your lunch more pleasant?

    Ted: I found this in my soup.

    [holds up gun]

    Ted: And I'm very upset.

    [shoots waiter]

  • [first lines]

    Seminar Leader: eXistenZ. Written like this. One word. Small 'E', capital 'X', capital 'Z'. 'eXistenZ'. It's new, it's from Antenna Research, and it's here... right now.