eXistenZ (1999) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - April 23, 1999

Although I have not watched eXistenZ from start to finish, I did catch the film's final fifteen or so minutes on cable television at one point. That was enough for me to conclude that Cronenberg had decided to return, revisit, and, if one wants to think uncharitably, recycle themes and elements from his seminal reality-bender Videodrome.

At that moment I thought it would be cool to watch both films as a double-feature, to see if that impression did, in fact, play out. I have yet to do that, but still hope to do so at some point in the future.

If I do, then I expect I will write a more nuanced blog entry about it. Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows?