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DVD Brief: eXistenZ |
           
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Description: A computer game creator (Jennifer Jason Leigh) develops a virtual reality game (housed in a latex pod made of mutant amphibians, with a power cord that plugs directly into the user's spinal cord) that gets her in big trouble with unknown assassins and puts her smackdab into a battle between gamers and pro-reality rebels as well as the pawn in a war between dueling corporate game makers. Barely escaping with her life, she convinces a corporate friend to escape with her into her alternate world, entering another universe of espionage, duplicity and double agents as the film shifts between different realities and fictions. A difficult plot line and a maze of twists and turns makes this a densely packed viewing experince. A return to sci-fi roots for David Cronenberg, who here embellishes on one of his recurrent -- and powerful -- themes: the transcendence of the flesh and the desire to be made into (or have the flesh extended unto) machine. Image: Clear as a bell, which bright interiors and exteriors and deep-blue night shots. Sound: Wonderful score by Howard Shore highlighted by slurping and squishing sounds; great surround effects. All DVDs are screened on a reference Onkyo DV- S717 third-generation DVD player.
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