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| ACTORS: | Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | David Cronenberg |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 23 April, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Dimension Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Science Fiction |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 717951005120 |
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Customer Reviews of eXistenZ
Get the Canadian Version! While nowhere near the level of "Crash" or "Dead Ringers," even middling efforts by this director tend to bear repeat viewing. One unqualified masterwork a decade is way better than we can expect from most people, anyway. This one ranks about with "Naked Lunch."
Jennifer Jason Leigh has been a blight on everything I've seen her in since she started taking acting lessons - or whatever happned to her. She's not bad here though, which is to say she doesn't cripple the film.
Basically the set-up is the same as "The Matrix" or "Tron," But those were really terrible movies. This one isn't a GREAT movie - but there IS a movie here, as opposed to a lot of sound and fury signifying creative and intellectual bankruptcy. One worth seeing too, if only for the weirdly sexy interactive machinery, playful layers of non-reality and some juicy supporting performances. The willfully un-slick production design is quite nice, also.
Could have been better
It's hard to rate this movie, especially without giving away any plot spoilers (which has to do with periods of bad acting). However it's a fun ride, yet it feels as though the whole "game world" wasn't as fully explored as it could have been. A few scenes, namely the "Chinese Waiter" one, are fantastic, while some are boring...like the car ride in the beginning. The plot itself is pretty easy to understand once you watch the movie twice, or just pay attention the first time. This is no Matrix, and it should hardly be compared to it (I'm not saying The Matrix is good or bad: the only thing these movies have in common is the ability to link up into a fictional world). I bought this as a blind buy and was slightly dissapointed...especially after watching Crash. Check out Equilibrium as well.
Superb psychotic suicide
Cronenberg is a genius in a way. He leads us into the world of a new generation of console games and 3D virtual reality. Everything happens the way the characters you are projected into decide, and yet your deeper psyche can influence the characters. You liberate in such a game your most sombre death instinct and psychotic tendencies. You become the character and the character becomes you. You are entirely dominated by a logic that comes from the character and from the deepest layers of your impulses and passions. You burn up yourself in such a game and you do not know any more where reality is and where you stand in it. Everything becomes both virtual and real. You are lost and unable to make a decision and get out of this virtual world which is just as real as reality. Reality disappears by being blended with virtuality. The game becomes a nightmarish experience and a psychotic trip. You use any weapon at your disposal, in the game or in reality, to kill and destroy yourself and other characters or individuals. Death is at the end of the line, death of your mind, death of your psyche, death of your individuality, death of your freedom and free choosing mind. This film is dangerous because it reveals a real danger we are confronted to : playing any game builds in you a second nature that is rooted in your most morbid passions.
Dr jacques COULARDEAU