Hey, guys? Explanation pro is here. Today I'll explain a Sci-fi/Horror movie. Title
EXISTENZ. Spoiler ahead, watch out, and take care!
The movie begins at a church where a man is demonstrating a new
game named eXistenZ. Afterward, the man introduces the finest game designer in the world, Allegra
Geller.
Allegra shyly walks onto the stage and introduces the eXistenZ
game. After finishing her short introduction, the staff members of the said event picked
people from the audience to try the game.
By the door, a PR manager, Ted Pikul, stops a guy who enters the event
rapidly, stating that he's already late for the event. Pikul checks his things to ensure
if the person has a gun or not; the guy passed the inspection.
While onstage with the volunteers, Allegra takes out an organic-looking
object called a pod that acts as a game system. After Allegra and the volunteers plug in to
test eXistenZ, the guy from earlier that Pikul stopped takes out a strange gun and shouts
"death to the Demoness, Allegra Geller" before shooting a man and Allegra in the shoulder.
This causes a commotion among the audience, while the bodyguards of the event immediately
shoot the guy down.
The dying man, the one that introduced the event, tells Pikul to
protect Allegra. Pikul takes Allegra's unresponsive body and drives out of there to the night.
At the car, Allegra looks at her shoulder wound. After Pikul brings
out a strange-looking phone, Allegra immediately takes it and throws it out of the window,
telling him it is a tracking device. After that, Allegra asks Pikul if they could stop
so that Pikul can take off the bullet from her wounds.
After removing the bullet, they notice that it is a tooth. Allegra examines
the gun and sees it is not just strange-looking: it is disturbingly made out of bones. Pikul
concludes that this must be the reason why it passed his inspection earlier.
The two continue traveling, eventually stopping at a motel. There, Allegra
checks her game eXistenZ to see if it is still working, and it is working. However, she needs
a companion to check if the game is functioning properly.
While Pikul is thinking of calling the company of the game, Allegra
suddenly examines Pikul. She notices that Pikul does not have a bio-port installed in
him, which is a hole at the bottom of the spine that enables a person to access virtual
reality games such as eXistenZ. Pikul admits that while he is a big fan of Allegra and
her games, he has a fear of bodily penetration.
Allegra urges Pikul to have one installed so they can test if
eXistenZ is still functioning properly. Allegra tells him that eXistenZ took five precious
years of development, and she does not want it to go to waste; she wants to test it with
someone she can trust. Pikul eventually agrees, and the two head to a gas station.
After refueling, Allegra asks the mechanic Gas for help with Pikul's
bio-port problem. At first, Gas acts dumb but immediately realizes that he is talking
to a world-renowned game designer. Gas drops to his knees to kiss Allegra's feet and happily
accepts to help.
Inside the building, Gas changes to a much cleaner attire. Pikul
asks how Allegra had changed Gas's life, and Gas responds by saying that Allegra's work
liberated him from reality. Afterward, Gas takes out a tubular machine. Pikul begins
to have second thoughts upon seeing it, but Gas reassures him that there is no risk of
infection.
Outside, while looking at various things at the gas station, Allegra
spots a two-headed amphibian hybrid, which amazes Allegra.
Upon going inside, Allegra finds that Pikul is now carrying a large metal
wrench and is threatening Gas. Allegra talks briefly to Pikul, telling him that he has
to embrace this change or never break out of his cage.
In the next scene, Pikul already agrees to undertake the bio-port procedure,
dropping down to the chair as if he's paralyzed from the waist down. And indeed, he is paralyzed,
but Gas reassures him that he will recover immediately. Allegra insists on inserting
the tube from her pod to test eXistenZ immediately. However, the pod short-circuits, angering
Allegra. She then accuses Pikul of being nervous, and Pikul tells her that he is not. Shortly
after, Gas returns with a shotgun and points it at Allegra. Gas tells them that he's the
one that sabotaged it by installing a faulty bio-port. He reveals that he did that because
there is a reward for both Allegra and her game being killed. Luckily, Pikul kills Gas
with a mechanical tool.
After this near-death encounter, the two drive to a seemingly abandoned
skiing place that Allegra knows. There, Pikul notices the two-headed creature that Allegra
saw earlier. Allegra comments that it is a sign of the times.
The two walk inside the house, where a man named Kiri Vinokur
happily greets Allegra, implying that he is an old friend of hers. Allegra asks Vinokur
to fix her pod while also letting them stay there for now, and Vinokur accepts.
Vinokur and his assistant proceeded to fix the pod. The pod is organic,
having flesh inside instead of wires, which visibly disgusts Pikul watching beside them.
Vinokur asks how the pod got damaged, and Allegra answers that Pikul has a faulty bio-port.
After Pikul comments that they are basically dissecting an animal, Vinokur tells Pikul
that it is indeed an animal, as it is made out of fertilized amphibian eggs stuffed with
synthetic DNA, which uses the human body as its power source. After finishing, Vinokur
proceeds to install a new bio-port for Pikul.
That night, Allegra inserts the tube from the pod and starts the
game. As Pikul stands from where he is sitting, he immediately finds himself in a new place,
seamlessly transitioning to another reality. Both of them get transported to a store of
sorts.
Pikul is surprised by how realistic everything seems to be in this
game. Pikul asks Allegra what the game's goal is, and Allegra responds by saying that he
has to play the game to find out further.
Pikul finds a mini version of Allegra's pod hanging at the store. When
Pikul touches it, a man appears to tell them that it is delicate, introducing himself as
D'Arcy Nader, the store owner. He then leads the two to a room.
Inside the room, Nader asks them who sent them there, and Pikul aggressively
answers that it is none of his business. Pikul seems to have spaced out, immediately apologizing
because he acted out of his control. Allegra tells him not to worry because Pikul's in-game
character is the one that spoke earlier. She then advises him to feed Nader some appropriate
dialogue to advance the plot of the game.
After telling him appropriate dialogues, Nader tells them to use the mini-pods
for their new identities. After Nader leaves, the two insert the mini-pods to their bio-ports,
with Allegra going first. The mini-pod gets pulled inside of the bio-port, surprising
Allegra. After successfully inserting the bio-pod, Pikul sexually licks the bio-port,
making Allegra jump out. After Pikul apologizes, telling her that his character acted that
way, Allegra suddenly kisses Pikul. Allegra notes that the game pushes them to be intimate
to have some emotional attachment.
After this, Pikul seamlessly gets transported in front of an assembly line.
He now has a different identity, and his job is to dissect amphibians for game pods inside
what used to be a trout farm. Beside him, a man introduces himself as Yevgeny Nourish.
Despite not knowing how to dissect, Pikul seems to know how to do such tasks masterfully.
Yevgeny asks Pikul where he's going to eat lunch. He then suggests
that Pikul should eat in the nearby Chinese restaurant in the forest, order "the special,"
and not take "no" for an answer. Afterward, Pikul gets called to deliver a pushcart full
of amphibians to the back.
As he delivers the contents of the pushcart, Pikul finds Allegra with
a new identity. Pikul then tells her to eat at the Chinese restaurant and order "the special."
They walk alongside the other factory workers toward the Chinese
restaurant. There, a waiter greets them and asks them what they want to order. Pikul responds
by saying that he wants "the special," making the table fall silent. The waiter tells Pikul
that the dish is for special occasions, and Pikul answers that it is Allegra's birthday.
After successfully ordering "the special," the other people at their table
immediately leave them without a word. Pikul then tells Allegra that he wants to pause
the game, but Allegra insists on continuing. Pikul then stands and shouts the eXistenZ
is paused.
After dropping down, Pikul finds himself on a bed, indicating that
he has finally returned to the real world. However, Pikul feels uneasy because he cannot
distinguish the real world from the virtual world. After Allegra manages to convince him,
they return to the game to continue the story.
Back at the Chinese restaurant, "the special" is finally served.
It is a platter full of disgusting meats that seem to be of alien origin. Yet despite being
disgusted, Pikul eats the unknown dish because it is his character. While eating the horrible
food, Pikul recreates the bone gun from earlier, immediately pointing it toward Allegra and
shouting the exact words similar to the assassin earlier.
But Pikul immediately drops the act, and they instead call the waiter.
Pikul fires at the waiter twice, killing him. Then Pikul stands from his seat and tells
the virtual customers of the restaurant that it was just a dispute, and the crowd unrealistically
goes on with their lives.
They then go to the back to meet with Yevgeny, who tells them
that the waiter is actually a spy and that Yevgeny works for the Realists. Yevgeny then
tells them to return to Nader's store to maintain agents there.
Upon returning, they talk to the cashier of the store about Nader's
whereabouts. The cashier brings them to the back, where they find Nader lying down asleep.
The cashier then tells them they should not have killed the waiter because the waiter
is their contact. The cashier then tells them that Nader and Yevgeny are actually working
with each other against the Realists.
As such, they return to the trout farm to put a stop to Yevgeny.
The two try to find an object, which they find in a room nearby. There, they see a diseased
game pod. For some unknown reason, Allegra has an urge to port it, and Pikul reluctantly
assists her. The diseased pod would prove to be harmful, and Pikul has to cut down the
cord. After cutting it down, the cord spurts blood, and Allegra is now bleeding to death.
After this, Yevgeny reappears with a flame thrower and burns the diseased pod, releasing
deadly spores upon its explosion. Allegra then shoots Yevgeny at the back, killing him.
The whole place burns down.
Pikul and Allegra wake up back to reality. Allegra finds her game
pod to be diseased and cries out in frustration. While trying to save the game pod, Allegra
finds out that Vinokur intentionally infects Pikul's bio-port, and she seals it for good
measure. Suddenly, an explosion occurs from outside. A man holding a gun comes in: it
is the cashier from the game. A confused Pikul comments that they must still be in the game.
The cashier then fires at the game pod, making Allegra scream at the top of her lungs.
After going outside with the man, the man then points a gun at
them, telling them that Allegra Geller has to die. However, the man gets killed by Vinokur.
Allegra lashes out at Vinokur for killing her game, but Vinokur tells her that he only
killed her game pod, not eXistenZ. Vinokur offers her a choice to defect to his side
so that she can see her game once again.
Allegra takes the gun from the dead man and shoots Vinokur to death.
Pikul scolds her, telling her that what if this is not a game anymore. In a shocking
turn of events, Pikul is actually an assassin as well. Still, Allegra is already one step
ahead of him as the seal she inserted at Pikul's bio-port is actually a bomb. After pushing
the trigger, the bomb explodes and kills Pikul. Allegra shouts that she beats the game.
Allegra notices that she is wearing technology of sorts in her
head and wrists. The film transitions to reveal a much more real "reality," where Allegra,
Pikul, and other characters are actually within another game called transCendenZ. The characters
discuss their roles and performances.
After concluding the game session, Yevgeny, one of the developers,
feels disturbed because the game starts on the premise of assassinating a game developer.
Pikul and Allegra, heading outside, stop by in front of the developers, telling them that
they should suffer for creating a device that deforms reality. Pikul and Allegra then kill
the developers. The movie ends with the waiter from earlier, asking them if they are still
in the game.
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