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A work of futuristic foreboding, David Cronenberg's "eXistenZ" portrays the grim side of technology. Taking place in a not-so-distant future, the most discernable change in the world is the state of videogames. No longer control pads connected to televisions, the games of "eXistenZ" are fully emmersive episodes of virtual reality.
The games themselves are held in toaster-sized "game-pods," and to experience them players insert a synthetic umbilical cord into a "port-hole" at the base of their spine. Plunged into a hyper-realistic world, gamers live out a myriad of incidents, acting both...
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