eXistenZ
Year: | 1999 |
Director: | David Cronenberg |
Writer: | David Cronenberg |
Cast: | Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Willen Dafoe, Sarah Polley, Ian Holm |
Whether you're in or out of virtual reality is in hindsight the perfect premise for Cronenberg's signature weirdness to work in, and I didn't understand much of the plot until the final frames when the payoff comes and makes you realise the whole film has been fooling you.
It would have made a better film as a sci-fi thriller rather than being overlaid with Cronenberg's flesh-obsessed overtones. The scene of the gun made of bones from a Chinese banquet is just gross.