Topic 7- Cronenberg: Cinema and technology

Lecture:
In the lecture on wednesday the movie eXistenZ was watched, the movie starring Jude Law and Jennifer Jason lee as the two main characters. The basic gist of the movie is about how the power of a simple virtual reality game can be extremely mind altering even to the point where the line is crossed into what’s reality and what’s in the game. The characters in the game have different personalities and therefore the characters are forced to do things and say things that their normal selves would not do. The movie ends with a last segment of a character asking “Are we still in the game?” This then leaves the audience with an ending of asking the questions themselves.
Overall the movie was interesting and I enjoyed seeing something that asked something different of your mind to grasp.


THERE WAS NO TUTORIAL IN WEEK 7

Readings:
The reading this week was writen by the lecturers Stepen and Adam. It involved the 'exploration of the connection of war and the development of War simulators.' It went into detail explaining how the soliders in the current war have been trained for whats to come by virtual reality simulators and how this image is far from what is real and what can and should be explected. The article then persisted to make the connection between military games and what actually goes on.
Questions by students were then asked 'Why is the media and consumers interested in war so much?' and 'Have we been conditioned or desensitised to war so much that we can see it as a genuine form of entertainment?'