Videodrome

my beloved videodrome, honestly a film with such a huge impact on my life i think about it all the time and cannot shut up about it  first minute in and i'm literally gagged. i can't believe i didn't notice it earlier but one of the joys of rewatching films is to notice the details i didn't catch before. david cronenberg is truly my favourite director and such a genius. i cannot fathom how on earth he made this film, one of my all time favourites and so incredibly ahead of its time. the first scene already sets the precedence of being too dependent on technology (the tv in this case) and the tagline "civic tv, the one you take to bed with you" is so brilliant. i love every single thing about this film and maybe im biased but for almost every line and scene ahead i think wow this is the best thing ive ever seen. this is another piece on not only technology and how it affects us but the different implications of violence and sex. i think it's cool that there is a character like nicki to represent insatiable deep desires of wanting something more, something violent. max is someone who doesn't want to engage in the real thing but wants the effects of the real thing, of sex and violence. he's quite afraid of crossing the line and it's ironic. he proceeds to become so obsessed with videodrome and suddenly his whole life revolves around the show. brian o'blivion is trying to make a point to prove that whatever you see on the television screen is your reality, with  "The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye." can't stop thinking about this and i never will, there are so many good quotes in here to think about and unpack. basically brian o'blivion's entire monologue was so thought provoking and smart and amazing.  "I could feel the visions coalesce and become flesh. Uncontrollable flesh."  god what an analogy for the purpose of showing that when one watches too much tv, they become one with it. aside from the surface fact that we get absorbed into something when we watch it too much, i think the subject matter is also really fascinating. the idea that we are drawn to violence and sex and the representation of deeper desires. so well executed in this. whats even more amazing is that this film even tackles the fact that we are made immortal through video. the fact that o'blivion is trying to make it seem like he never left through videotapes??? ingenius, and with technology it can be pulled off with masterful execution  definitely already yapped about the long live the new flesh bit in my previous review so no comment on that i think it's just genius and this film has my heart forever, 5 stars !!!!!