Videodrome
"Violence, sex, imagination, catharsis"
James Wood is seriously the perfect person for this, he looks the part all too well.
it truly is the way we are still having the same conversations about these exact things here shown in this time and age now. we still live in an age like this but erotica and pornography have sort of retreated to sites on the internet rather than being shown on the main television like it had been in the past. #censorship
#cultivationtheory sometimes what we see on the television makes us do some crazy shit in real life and it's shown very starkly here. when tv becomes reality and addiction is very real, we listen to the voices inside our heads planted there by the things we see on television. i love the representation and the metaphors used here.
this begs the question, what is reality? sometimes it gets harder to distinguish reality and what we see on a screen. it's the same problem we face today as a modern society. i really had a deep thought about what Brian O'Blivion had to say about television and reality because it makes sense.
honestly "victim" is such an oddly accurate word to describe what we all are when we are in front of a television. this film evokes so much thought within me, there is actually so much to unpack i cant possibly phrase out everything in this review. tv but also reality and then a hybrid, but it's also a dream. i'm not sure how to explain how deep this goes. fake but real. it's like we're ingrained into it and it into us. which is captured in the scene when Max holds the gun.
absolutely in awe of how they managed to capture this in one scene from the start (where they are at home but then get transported into the set of videodrome). and then again multiple times across the duration of this film. i also seriously loved some of the effects they were so good and so real it did make me question whether or not they were. that's how you know it was good. obsessed with that cigarette burn effect it was so cool and also the hand in stomach. giving the cassette the likeness of flesh and the gun part was amazing symbolism on its own.
"LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!"
amazing ending and great symbolism. it's like it's a part of him. and it can destroy. all in all i thoroughly enjoyed this thought provoking session of 1hr 28mins. the scary thing about this is that it was only a mere 1hr 28mins but felt so long, in a good way because they managed to fit so much inside of it. i cant even describe what i just watched but i did get it. love this so much actually. i haven't watched something this good in a while, and i'm going to think about this a lot now.