The
nineties were not a good decade of work for David Cronenberg. Not
one of the films he made in these past ten years, have been as good
as the previous two decades. I think of strong films like Rabid,
The Brood, The Dead Zone and The Fly. Ever since Cronenberg
appeared as an actor in Nightbreed, he hasn't been the same.
I found Existenz to be rather bland, repetitive to the other
films Cronenbergs already made and the ending to be a cop out.
Maybe it was the film's strange subject matter, but what Cronenberg
film isn't a little unusual. I was never emotionally engaged in
the film. Of course the story is about a virtual reality like game
called Existenz. It's a game in which the human body (Cronenbergs
fascination) becomes part of the game. Through the films journey,
we are suppose to question what is happening is real or just part
of the game? The problem was that I really didn't care one way or
the other. If you want to see an alternate reality film that will
psychologically mess with your mind and at the same time assault
your senses, The Matrix is the film you should watch.
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The
nineties were not a good decade of work for David Cronenberg. Not
one of the films he made in these past ten years, have been as good
as the previous two decades. I think of strong films like Rabid,
The Brood, The Dead Zone and The Fly. Ever since Cronenberg
appeared as an actor in Nightbreed, he hasn't been the same.
I found Existenz to be rather bland, repetitive to the other
films Cronenbergs already made and the ending to be a cop out.
Maybe it was the film's strange subject matter, but what Cronenberg
film isn't a little unusual. I was never emotionally engaged in
the film. Of course the story is about a virtual reality like game
called Existenz. It's a game in which the human body (Cronenbergs
fascination) becomes part of the game. Through the films journey,
we are suppose to question what is happening is real or just part
of the game? The problem was that I really didn't care one way or
the other. If you want to see an alternate reality film that will
psychologically mess with your mind and at the same time assault
your senses, The Matrix is the film you should watch.
