eXistenZ is paused! - Hyper reality scene

A great scene clearly dealing with hyper reality

[@ddrhazy]

Notice how the dining table slightly turns into their bed back in the "real world" with the red sheet when Jude Law slams his head on the table whilst pausing.

[@baconsalad1891]

This is the most underrated movie of all time. To this day it boggles my mind how few people have seen it.

[@aishareed4019]

Yes, I never heard of it until today.

[@msd5808]

The poor video encoding really adds to the ambience

[@sclogse1]

Having not seen the film....

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

Yes I was questioning if that was part of it

[@bobgunter9608]

How is this not a meme but also the restaurant blending with the bedroom is so cool. Love this film

[@TruDis01]

I remember being really impressed with the "special effects" when his head sinks into the table, but now I realise that for that shot, they simply switched the table for the bed they went to sleep on

[@stunningshines]

so underrated... But still my favourite movie ^^

[@MARYJOEBETHELBALDUR]

It's the 144000 movie

[@tremorsfan]

I love the fact that they actually made a table in the shape of a bed just for that one shot.

[@buddyroach]

smoke a lot of weed and watch this movie. best psychosis trip ever.

[@smartjackasswisdom1467]

More like a mindf#ck, Acid + weed + this movie, now that's psychosis.

[@-Trauma.]

Me: *after pausing eXistenZ, and having an existential moment* ...so wait, does...does it do that *every* time we pause? "Yes..." Hmmmm Imma have pass on this game then...?

[@Novasky2007]

I like the special, but only on special occasions.

[@Nickelodeon81]

It's my birthday.

[@mytube650]

I am pretty sure this works IRL but I’ve forgotten the name of the game we are all playing so I can’t pause and get back to reality. It just keeps going.

[@ohmygodfreeusername]

If only I knew how to pause my Existenz

[@sclogse1]

Get rid of the I in your head, and there will be no one to pause, no one to want to pause, no pause available.

[@hardoise667]

What a demonstration!

[@christoferprestipino7433]

I think this is just, incredible.

[@christantoseno]

Every game can be paused right Meanwhile moba and battle royale game: am i joke to you

[@ronruddick2972]

When you just want an egg...

[@moonwatch7963]

From memory of watching this years ago, this is what I thought the point of the film was - she really did make the original game, but they stuck her inside her own game in order to try to trick her into thinking she was just trying someone elses game (TrancendenZ), in order to sort of steal her game from her and keep it for themselves, so they could sell it etc instead.

[@Wolfsbane909]

when they question if its real or not, that's realism and thats what makes the games great, because its so real.

[@RedVelvetUnderground333]

Amazing movie

[@minhmai-op1fl]

Kitkat for alien shooter steam

[@pavelyankouski4913]

SushiHouse, супчик из холодца и креведок

[@SuperThakid09]

Deep

[@stobiusshroden]

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[@vect0rwolf]

My mom yelling at me to pause a raid in WoW, "All games can be paused right?!??"

[@McSquiddington]

It's a great comment on hyperreality, but it also sort of gives away the supposedly "real" world's equal artifice. The two-headed dragon, the characters' names, Willem Dafoe's character just being called "Gas" as he's a gas station attendant... I know that names like "Kiri Vinokur" and "Yevgeny Nurish" are technically linguistically correct if you look past more common English naming conventions - but they feel inescapably fake, somehow. Even names like "Hugo Carlaw" and "Darcy Nader" feel off, even if they make perfect sense. You could conceivably bump into a Hugo Carlaw or a Darcy Nader on the street. It's kind of surprising that you only need a few levels for a supposedly hyper-real game to abandon all naming efforts for certain characters and letting Ted Pikul's "Chinese waiter" pass. Even basic MUDs and text-based adventures tended to provide concrete names for entities you could interact with in some limited fashion. Then again, that's where David Cronenberg and the Wachowskis kind of diverge. One was mostly focusing on dissassociative effects and presented its concept in an unwaveringly negative light, while the others used disassociation to express a form of self-actualization, which obviously ties into the recent admission that "The Matrix" can serve as a "trans" allegory - as in both Transhuman and Transsexual. I guess this makes eXistenZ a kind of Boomer allegory for the usual cries of how the "vidyas are rotting the kids' brains"...

[@RoqueFortStu]

"The game can be paused, can't it? I mean, all games can be paused, right?" ...nope, not Dark Souls

[@MARYJOEBETHELBALDUR]

Lol

[@AsIfInteractive]

What does this scene come from?

[@andyman286]

It's a cool film from back in the day. Title in title

[@mymon2829]

its called eXistenZ

[@Nickelodeon81]

Search for "Brain in a vat"

[@MARYJOEBETHELBALDUR]

144000

[@SuperThakid09]

There Is a new movie coming out called "I Dont Give A Fuck" Starring me "Anthony Hutchison"

[@GhostFan-ev4di]

Praise jehovah

[@fibonojomano5369]

Praise abraxas