Although it has a lot of typical Cronenberg horror and bodyshock elements, this is a very clever commentary on virtual reality and especially VR plus game addiction. This is a 1999 film, but here in 2017 we're beginning to enter the VR era. There are likely to be real psychological casualties when the lines between VR and the real world become blurred.
The other thing I really enjoy about this film (I've seen it a number of times) is the way it deals with different levels of reality and leaves you unsure whether the 'base' level of reality at the start of the film is, in fact, reality at all. In that way it is almost a prototype of Inception.
Overall I find the ideas in the film more compelling than the execution, but those ideas keep me coming back to the film on a regular basis.
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Although it has a lot of typical Cronenberg horror and bodyshock elements, this is a very clever commentary on virtual reality and especially VR plus game addiction. This is a 1999 film, but here in 2017 we're beginning to enter the VR era. There are likely to be real psychological casualties when the lines between VR and the real world become blurred.
The other thing I really enjoy about this film (I've seen it a number of times) is the way it deals with different levels of reality and leaves you unsure whether the 'base' level of reality at the start of the film is, in fact, reality at all. In that way it is almost a prototype of Inception.
Overall I find the ideas in the film more compelling than the execution, but those ideas keep me coming back to the film on a regular basis.