Videodrome

I kinda watched this sleep deprived and honestly couldn’t tell you most of what was happening, but from what i can tell you, this might Cronenberg’s masterpiece.   A film so ahead of its time that it is genuinely scary to think about in retrospect, i mean this feels so modern and so synced with the current media landscape that it honestly feels a little prophetic. Like in a way Cronenberg might’ve predicted the deep web? in the 80s? it is unnerving to think about, and the ambiguity of the film itself doesn’t really help you through it all. Also, the stylistic choices, the acting, the pacing, all works in motion to really create this sense of dread, like there is some sort of inexplicable and almost intangible danger in every corner, i mean in some parts i was unironically baffled at the grotesque creativity of it all, using the flesh and the technology im ways i couldn’t even dream of, and now i certainly understand why Cronenberg is the the king of body horror, even more so than in the fly. Lastly, the social commentary is more than evident, it is subtle yet powerfully enough to make an impact on the viewer, sadly, it might’ve come a little to early, and the reality is that videodrome has nothing on the atrocities that you can find nowadays, so not only reality has surpassed fiction, we are pretty much living on videodrome without realizing it, and the bleak and ambiguous nature of the ending only helps to complete this vision that we can’t truly even scape from, after all, the violent nature of both the media and the internet it’s nothing but a mere reflection of our own, and it is absolutely terrifying.