EXISTENZ

In the not too distant future, game designer Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has developed the next step in the evolution of gaming. eXistenZ by Antenna is a whole new system that plugs directly into the spinal column and uses the structure of the brain as its playing field. The possibilities are near-limitless, and the difference between what is real and what is the game evaporates. Which is why a faction of realist fundamentalists have placed a death sentence on her head — sending her on the run with a junior publicist (Jude Law) through the backroads, restaurants, and adaptive polygons of a society transformed by technology into something new, but dangerously familiar. Future shock is now. With Sarah Polley, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Eccleston, and nearly every beloved Canadian character actor you can think of.

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