Videodrome
Cronenberg is the king of "what the fuck" and he established that title with The Fly, Naked Lunch and Videodrome, at least in my opinion. I have to admit I overlooked it a little bit but after rewatching, after so many years, I must admit it´s one of his finest works (being my favorite Naked Lunch, I´m sorry...)
Max Renn is the CEO of a soft porn tv channel who´s looking for something more... hmm... incisive to broadcast. He ends up discovering a scrambled satellite transmission of some very violent and sordid imagery and decides that´s the stuff he wants.
In the meanwhile he meets a very masochistic and annoying Debbie Harry (Blondie) who gets very turned on after watching said tape on his house and decides to audition to the show, never to return from it. Which I applaud since she´s my pet peeve. After further investigating, Max discovers the images are part of a snuff show with a mind control agenda and that´s when things get freaky. If they weren´t freaky enough!
In the meanwhile he meets a very masochistic and annoying Debbie Harry (Blondie) who gets very turned on after watching said tape on his house and decides to audition to the show, never to return from it. Which I applaud since she´s my pet peeve. After further investigating, Max discovers the images are part of a snuff show with a mind control agenda and that´s when things get freaky. If they weren´t freaky enough!
Max starts having hallucinations (or are they really?) where a vagina hole thing opens up on his chest where videotapes can be inserted by the people who are behind Videodrome (in order to control him and make him do errands for them)... like kill people.
He manages to break their control with the aid of one of the project´s creators, kills two executives from his tv network and ends on an abandoned place shooting his brains after saying "long live the new flesh", and after watching himself do just that on a tv.
You get the idea...
He manages to break their control with the aid of one of the project´s creators, kills two executives from his tv network and ends on an abandoned place shooting his brains after saying "long live the new flesh", and after watching himself do just that on a tv.
You get the idea...
Technically, the movie it´s awesome. Honestly, I can´t think of anything bad to say about it. It´s not that hard to follow as one might think. The soundtrack is pretty cool, I´m downloading it as we speak and the FX are great. Gory as hell but without seeming tacky or over the top as some other movies. I do like it. A lot.
When I first saw it. It didn´t strike me as being so awesome, maybe because I was so young and didn´t really understood it but now it seems so relevant.
When I first saw it. It didn´t strike me as being so awesome, maybe because I was so young and didn´t really understood it but now it seems so relevant.
We became so desensitized to violence and torture and sex, which became so mechanic and void, by watching it on a daily basis on tv that we became mindless machines, ready to be used. It was made clear in this movie and this is from 1983 so imagine it now with all the crap we have access to the internet. We can actually get access to snuff, very weird porn, people are being murdered right in front of our eyes and we get kicks out of it. Very fucked up kicks.
Weird that our world has kind of become Videodrome, isn´t it?
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