eXistenZ Film Review

David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ is not your average science fiction film. In fact when watching the movie, you would realise it’s far from it. eXistenZ provides a dramatic, futuristic outlook to virtual-gaming with the use of organic technology.

The film begins with superstar game designer Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) making a rare appearance in front of a small audience providing an advanced showing of her newest creation in gaming, eXistenZ from Antenna Research. The advanced screening offers normal, everyday computer game players the chance to be one of the first ever to try the new game.

Participants of the first game, sit on the stage using a bio-pod, an undulating fleshy mass that replaces the mouse or joystick used today. This is connected to an umbilical cord which is then plugged into a bio-port located at the base of the spine, allowing it to have full access to the central nervous system. As information starts downloading into the players, an assassin...