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Back in your boxes, you idiots. Stick to delivering films.
Sorry, get a bit fired up on that one. Back to the movie pronounced
eXistenZ. (It’s easy, really!)
Set in the near future, eXistenZ follows the race for survival
of Ted Pikul (Jude Law) a young man who unwittingly becomes
a de facto bodyguard for the world's greatest, and most controversial
(even more than the film's title) games producer.
Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) designs games that plug
in to your spine via a pretty icky-looking controller, but
this piece of technology takes you into a world of complete
virtual immersion.
You are transported into the games and, of course, begin to
struggle to work out what is real. It is this blurring and
melding of real and virtual life that gives eXistenZ its cutting
edge over other similar-style sci-fi thrillers.
In fact, eXistenZ is a paranoic nightmare, as you are never
sure who is on whose side, or even if the dreamworld is a
dreamworld - it could be reality and life was a dream!
Jude Law is extremely good as the newbie gamer who at first
struggles with the concept of virtual life but then gets right
in to playing it to the hilt.
Jennifer Jason Leigh is a very underrated actress who usually
plays slightly askew characters that mix naievity, worldliness
and raunch all in one. She is terrific as Geller and leads
the wide-eyed Law into a new consciousness.
All up, eXistenZ will give your grey matter a bit of a working
over and will do so in an engaging and absorbing way. It has
cult movie written all over it and you can guarantee the chic
crowd will sip coffee in street cafes discussing the pros,
cons (and pronunciation) of eXistenZ for months to come.
We semi-normal types can just enjoy it for it being good viewing.
Conclusion: Movie: 85% DVD Extras: 50%
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