A matter of complicated affairs

The film eXistenZ showed how the distinction between reality and fantasy is fast becoming narrowed. The aim of game companies today is to make gaming more interactive and seem more real to the point that I expect that we can expect virtual reality like the film to eventually hit our home gaming. For long points of the film I was struggling to realise whether they were in fantasy world or the real world, then at the end it came as a shock to see that the entire film had been staged and just some damn computer game.

The two different worlds of reality and fantasy colliding shows a complete loss of control, people are confused for they don't know what is going on, as Jude Law stated, "the game seems more like reality and reality more like a game." There truly is no distinguishing features between the two worlds, as they are just as messed up as each other. The film was like an intense game of Sims, freewill is not required as you have to stick to the plot, yet despite the fact that they were in the game it was still as if somebody else was clicking the buttons on what they had to do, when it comes to freewill Allegra simply put it as "just like real life, just enough to make it interesting. The character Gas pointed out another point "thou the player of the game ArtGod," and during games that is how people playing want to be, in the Sims you virtually are God, just as any other strategy game. For example you are playing a game which is just about life, but you get to make the decisions, you get to give them a house, destroy it etc, as it is all about being in control as if you were a god.

The technology itself in the game makes a move towards the environmental as the bio ports that people are having shot into them, as to show that technology is so important that it truly is a part of us, they are made from dead fish or whatever those things were some mutated kind of frog. The whole film was some dramatic ride which culminated with a couple of crazies shooting the creator, just as the aim of the video game had been, showing that we can impact everything around us, including video games. As much as I thought that the film was good on a whole, it wasn't quite my cup of tea, games like that in the future would be cool, but I am content with what I have now for the time being.