knew this was gonna be a wild ride when they brought out the Playstation Pussy in the first 5 minutes

"I'm very worried about my body."

No truer line spoken in a Cronenberg script.

“I have this phobia about having my body... penetrated” —Jude Law

and willem dafoe as gas

Maybe my favorite Cronenberg now - layers and layers of "spaces" overlapped until the distinction between the virtual and the real can no longer be distinguished. This is constructed so meticulously - placing characters within a virtual world, governed by virtual laws - but this also depicts the virtual-nature of our basic standards of living: you wake up, you eat, you go to work, you have lunch, you go home, you have dinner, etc. In-between, everything becomes a game: alliances, relationships, sex, even eating food. By the end, we have no clue whether we are seeing a "game" or "reality." But it doesn't matter - for Cronenberg, they're one and the same. Masterpiece.

guys I don't think david cronenberg has ever played a video game

Going to call sex "porting in" and my vagina "bioport" from now on

jennifer jason leigh crying a single tear over a nasty cronenberg umbilical cord gamecube is more convincing than some actor’s best performances

- yeah, sure, i’ll make a movie about video games. but the console will be a deformed placenta that plugs into a butthole in the base of your spine via an umbilical cord.

- sounds great, mr. cronenberg.

was this the first inception

It’s hard to distinguish between the video game world and the real world because the “real” worlds in Cronenberg’s movies often feel sparse and alienating and sketchily-detailed and full of characters who act like they were programmed by an algorithm that hasn’t quite reached perfection. Cronenberg is the best Toronto filmmaker because he sees Toronto not as the World Class City that Telefilm hacks are incentivized to celebrate but rather as the sort of vague, nonspecific, soulless and slightly sinister everycity that it is.