Existenz was released in 1999 In the near-future, organic virtual reality game consoles known as "game pods" have replaced electronic ones. The pods are attached to "bio-ports", outlets inserted at players' spines, through umbilical cords.
The movie shows games in a virtual world, like the Matrix, where we follow Allegra the game designer and Ted Pikul, a security guard who was put in charge to protect Allegra. The movie contains twists and turns and explores the pro's and con's to a virtual world.
The movies points out a lot of con's to a virtual world as well as some good ones, but what annoyed me was the whole twist to the film is that they are playing the REAL game through out the movie, and the game is being hunting down for making a game which they play within the game, confusing but understandably.
One of the things that I didn't get, and this is understandably seeing as the film was created in 1999 was the game they were playing themselves. The game was to play as characters being hunted down for making a game, that people want to steal or destroy. Who would want to play a game like that? also there were some people that had acting roles, that seem totally pointless to actual game play. Game should involve everyone. I didn't feel like they were playing a game more like playing a role playing game in a drama class, where actors have to act on the spot, to me that isn't a game, the only game concept i agreed with a thought was a game was when they went into the so called eXistenZ game where AI followed a scripted.
The film had many floors to it, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but like I said before, this was made around the time when games were only just getting more advanced in technology and the real possibilities and understand that of how games work today, wouldn't of been known.
(Reference from personal view)
(Reference from personal view)
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