eXistenZ (1999)
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00:04:50Eligra!
00:04:52Eligra!
00:04:59The world of games is in a kind of a trance.
00:05:03People are programmed to accept so little,
00:05:08but the possibilities are so great.
00:05:15Extends is not just a game.
00:05:22It's an entirely new game system,
00:05:25and it involves a whole lot of new toys,
00:05:30which you're going to be the first to try out.
00:05:36We have 12 prototype Metaflesh game pods,
00:05:40and that means that for our first wave test enclave,
00:05:43we need 12 volunteers who will port into these slave units
00:05:47with the game pod goddess herself.
00:05:51Hold it. Not so fast.
00:05:54Oh, jeez, right.
00:05:57Hold it.
00:06:00Hold it. Not so fast.
00:06:03Oh, jeez, right.
00:06:06Oh, God, I'm not late, am I? Did I miss the porting?
00:06:09It's just the first wave. You can be part of the second wave.
00:06:12You, guy at the back with the gray hair.
00:06:15You, sir, this lady here. Just come up. Thank you.
00:06:19Noel Dictor?
00:06:21Yes.
00:06:23Put your arms up. I have to scan you.
00:06:25Is this a weapons check?
00:06:27More for recording devices.
00:06:29A lot of money invested in these games, Noel.
00:06:31Our systems will then help you to port your pod into your bioports
00:06:35using Antenna Research's new...
00:06:37What's in this case?
00:06:39Oh, I brought my game pod.
00:06:41It's got original Marwai tissue architecture.
00:06:43I know it's kind of obsolete,
00:06:45but even though I couldn't afford the Antenna 15 upgrade,
00:06:48I figured out this method of virtual porting that I thought...
00:06:50You won't need it tonight.
00:06:53Everything's provided for.
00:06:57Oh, my God.
00:07:03How are you doing? You okay?
00:07:05So what do you think? Two hours, tops?
00:07:07Two, three hours.
00:07:09So you're saying three hours?
00:07:11Yeah.
00:07:13Okay.
00:07:15Everything's in order. Are you ready, Allegra?
00:07:17Sure. This is my favorite part.
00:07:19Take it away.
00:07:27All right.
00:07:29I'm ready to download Existenz
00:07:31by Antenna Research into all of you.
00:07:34Now, I'm warning you.
00:07:36It's going to be a wild ride.
00:07:39But don't panic.
00:07:41No matter what happens, okay?
00:07:45All right. I'll see you back here in no time at all.
00:07:48All right. I'll see you back here in no time at all.
00:08:19She seems to be very shy.
00:08:23Never occurred to me that a big star would be shy.
00:08:27She spends most of her time alone in her room designing her games.
00:08:31Thinks she'd like it best if she never had to show them to anybody.
00:08:49All right.
00:08:51All right.
00:09:16Death to the demoness, Allegra Geller.
00:09:18Now!
00:09:21No!
00:09:23Death to Antenna Research!
00:09:46Get her out of here. Save her.
00:09:48Save her. There might be more of them.
00:09:50Go on.
00:09:51He may take her.
00:09:52We have enemies in our own house.
00:09:54Trust no one. Trust no one.
00:10:13Miss Geller, you're coming with me.
00:10:18I'm responsible for you.
00:10:20You're supposed to come with me.
00:10:49Well, what are we going to do out here?
00:10:53Do you know your way around?
00:10:55Do you know any country people?
00:10:57Not country people. Games people.
00:11:02Country sides full of games development people, project coordinators.
00:11:07Little factories, you name it.
00:11:09Okay, so...
00:11:11I'm going to go to the factory.
00:11:13Little project coordinators. Little factories, you name it.
00:11:17Okay, so you know your way around. We can hide out.
00:11:20Maybe.
00:11:22It seems like I have some enemies I didn't know I had.
00:11:26Death to Allegra Geller.
00:11:28How would you like to hear someone with a gun screaming,
00:11:31Death to Ted Pichel?
00:11:36Hey, how do you know my name?
00:11:38You're labeled.
00:11:41Yeah.
00:11:54What's that?
00:11:57My pink phone.
00:12:03Ted Pichel.
00:12:05What happened?
00:12:08Hey!
00:12:10What did you do that for?
00:12:12That was our lifeline to civilization.
00:12:14That was our range finder.
00:12:16As long as you have that thing, know where we are.
00:12:18Nay, you mean head office.
00:12:20I mean anybody.
00:12:27Pichel, why don't you have a gun?
00:12:32You're not armed.
00:12:34They told me you're my security, but you have no weaponry.
00:12:37Who told you that?
00:12:39I'm just a marketing trainee.
00:12:45Fucking hell.
00:12:48I'm marked for death, and they send me on the road the PR nerd.
00:12:54Marked for death.
00:12:57Marked for death. Oh, jeez.
00:12:59Okay.
00:13:01Don't sweat it, Pichel.
00:13:03Don't sweat it. I'm gonna handle it.
00:13:05And, uh...
00:13:07Right now, we need to stop.
00:13:09Do what?
00:13:11So we can have an intimate moment together.
00:13:15Fuck.
00:13:31Come on. If you're gonna do it, do it.
00:13:35Okay.
00:13:38Okay.
00:13:40Okay.
00:13:58Did somebody bite you?
00:14:00What?
00:14:05What I just dug out of you.
00:14:07It's a tooth.
00:14:11A human...
00:14:13tooth.
00:14:19Let me see that weirdo pistol.
00:14:22Ooh.
00:14:35Yep.
00:14:37The bullets are human teeth.
00:14:41This one's got a cavity.
00:14:45That thing was designed to get past any kind of metal or synthetics detector.
00:14:50It's all flesh and bone.
00:14:52I suppose a smaller caliber pistol would have to fire baby teeth.
00:14:56Tooth fairy could go into the arms business.
00:15:20Fuck.
00:15:50Where were you just now?
00:15:52I was wandering through existence.
00:15:56The new system, I mean.
00:16:00I like it in there.
00:16:04Of course, with another player, you're only a tourist.
00:16:09It's frustrating.
00:16:12It's like being in a different world.
00:16:14It's like being in a different world.
00:16:16It's like being in a different world.
00:16:18It's frustrating.
00:16:21Why won't you let me contact Antenna?
00:16:27They gotta be going crazy wondering what's happened to you.
00:16:32I mean, it's not like we've done something wrong.
00:16:36We just ran because we didn't know how many of them there were, right?
00:16:45I think we owe it to Antenna
00:16:47to let them know you're all right
00:16:50and to get them to send somebody to help you who knows what he's doing.
00:16:55Because that's... I can't...
00:16:58I can't just keep doing this, whatever it is.
00:17:02You know, forever.
00:17:04Not having any idea when it's going...
00:17:07Hey!
00:17:11What are you doing?
00:17:13Where's your Bioport?
00:17:16Oh, don't tell me you've never been fitted.
00:17:19I can't believe it.
00:17:21No, I was never fitted with a Bioport. What do you care?
00:17:23Well, you want to get into the biz and you've never played one of my games?
00:17:31You've never played any game.
00:17:36Look...
00:17:39I've been dying to play your games.
00:17:43But I have this phobia about having my body penetrated.
00:17:48Surgically.
00:17:50You know what I mean.
00:17:54No, I'm not sure that I do.
00:17:56Getting a Bioport fitted.
00:18:00I don't know.
00:18:02Can't do it.
00:18:04It's too freaky. Makes my skin crawl.
00:18:06They just pop your spine with a little hydro gun.
00:18:09They shoot the port plug into it.
00:18:11They do it at malls. It's like getting your ears pierced.
00:18:14Yeah, sure, with only an infinitesimal chance of permanent spinal paralysis.
00:18:18I've read all about it.
00:18:20Hey, it's your chosen profession.
00:18:24Besides, once you're ported...
00:18:26There's no end to the games you can play.
00:18:30You can't seriously want to play games now.
00:18:33Not here. Not while we're being hunted down by crazy people.
00:18:40My baby here took a huge hit in the church, Paykel.
00:18:44When those Umbi cords got ripped out of her.
00:18:47Ripped out of her.
00:18:49Just as the game architecture was being downloaded from her to all those slave pods.
00:18:56That's a very vulnerable time for her.
00:19:01She could be crying out for help right now.
00:19:05The only way I can tell if the game's not been contaminated...
00:19:11The pod is not about to be crippled for life because of my negligence.
00:19:18It's to play Existence.
00:19:21With somebody friendly.
00:19:25And I'm not going to let that happen.
00:19:27It's to play Existence.
00:19:30With somebody friendly.
00:19:35Are you friendly?
00:19:38Or are you not?
00:19:45Sure.
00:19:47Alright.
00:19:49Let's do it.
00:19:52Let's do it now.
00:19:55Let me see.
00:19:57To get an illegal, unregistered Bioport installed...
00:20:03At about midnight...
00:20:06We just drive up to your local country gas station, right?
00:20:10Yeah.
00:20:23Anything else I can do for you?
00:20:25Well, gas...
00:20:27You could check your Bioport plugs.
00:20:30What?
00:20:32Spark plugs?
00:20:33You heard me.
00:20:35My friend here has a Bioport problem.
00:20:38A Bioport...
00:20:41That's a sort of hole in your spine, isn't it?
00:20:46Lots of assholes around here, but that's generally it.
00:20:53I don't know why you'd be talking to me about that, lady.
00:20:58Sure you do.
00:21:09Oh.
00:21:21Allegra Geller.
00:21:23You changed my life.
00:21:29What was your life like before?
00:21:31Before?
00:21:34Before it was changed by Allegra Geller.
00:21:37I operated a gas station.
00:21:41You still operate a gas station, don't you?
00:21:44Only on the most pathetic level of reality.
00:21:48Geller's work liberated me.
00:21:51Liberated?
00:21:53Did you ever play a game Art God?
00:21:55One word, capital A, capital G.
00:21:58I don't have a Bioport.
00:22:01Thou, the player of the game, Art God.
00:22:04Very spiritual. Funny, too.
00:22:08God, the artist, the mechanic.
00:22:11Funny.
00:22:18Here we go.
00:22:27Those are sterilized, aren't they?
00:22:30Not to worry.
00:22:32The way they set things up,
00:22:34you could fire in a Bioport in a slaughterhouse
00:22:37and never generate an infection.
00:22:39Then why the clean overalls?
00:22:44It's a mental thing.
00:22:46Helps me focus.
00:22:48The one thing you don't want to do
00:22:50is miss with the stud finder.
00:22:55Oh, God.
00:22:57God, the mechanic.
00:23:02Step into my office.
00:23:32God, the mechanic.
00:24:02God, the mechanic.
00:24:32Come on.
00:24:36See? That didn't hurt, did it?
00:24:39I didn't expect that to hurt.
00:24:42I expect the next part to hurt.
00:24:50Yeah, that's what I expect to hurt.
00:24:53I haven't crippled anyone yet.
00:24:56How many have you done?
00:24:58Three.
00:25:00Well, you'll be my third.
00:25:03Easy.
00:25:28Easy.
00:25:30What's going on, Das?
00:25:32Hell, he's acting like I'm attacking him.
00:25:36People usually pay me to do this, you know.
00:25:39Yeah, all two of them.
00:25:42As you can see,
00:25:44I've decided not to have a Bioport installed.
00:25:48This is it, you see?
00:25:50This is the cage of your own making,
00:25:53which keeps you trapped and pacing about
00:25:56in the smallest possible space forever.
00:25:59Break out of your cage, Michael.
00:26:02Break out now.
00:26:05Break out now.
00:26:08Break out now.
00:26:10Break out now.
00:26:13Break out now.
00:26:16Break out now.
00:26:29The swelling doesn't last for long.
00:26:32Tomorrow you won't even notice it.
00:26:35I love it.
00:26:38Great.
00:26:41What's going on? I can't!
00:26:43I can't move my legs!
00:26:45The procedure comes with its own epidural,
00:26:48just like when you have a baby.
00:26:51Kind of like instant paralysis from the waist down.
00:26:54That's why it didn't hurt you.
00:26:56It'll wear off in no time.
00:26:59I'm gonna go wash up.
00:27:02You two, make yourselves at home.
00:27:11We don't have to wait for the swelling to go down.
00:27:22You're gonna pour it into me while I'm paralyzed?
00:27:27You wanted to play my game, didn't you?
00:27:30Yeah, I did.
00:27:33I'm not gonna play your game.
00:27:36You wanted to play my game, didn't you?
00:27:39Yeah, I did.
00:27:41I do, but here, now...
00:27:44It's an Instamon world, isn't it?
00:27:48What's that for?
00:27:50I feel... cold.
00:27:54Your ports are sometimes a bit tight.
00:27:58I wouldn't want to hurt you.
00:28:02How come...
00:28:04bioports don't get infected?
00:28:07I mean...
00:28:10they open right into your body.
00:28:16Listen to what you're saying, Michael.
00:28:19Don't be ludicrous.
00:28:33Don't you think you could call me Ted?
00:28:37Maybe afterwards.
00:29:03Shit!
00:29:05Michael!
00:29:07I can't believe it.
00:29:09You blew my pod!
00:29:11You must have neurosurged!
00:29:13What do you mean?
00:29:14I jacked you into my pod, and you obviously panicked.
00:29:17Now it's totally fucked!
00:29:19This is a disaster.
00:29:22I was nervous, but I didn't panic.
00:29:26I was nervous, but I didn't panic.
00:29:29I was forced to trust you, and you panicked,
00:29:32and you neurosurged, and you blew my pod.
00:29:36You can get a new pod.
00:29:39Michael!
00:29:41In this pod...
00:29:44is the only...
00:29:46the original version of Existenz,
00:29:49an entire game system that costs 38 million to develop,
00:29:52not including pre-release marketing costs.
00:29:55And I'm locked outside my own game.
00:29:58I can't get me in or it out!
00:30:02Are you serious?
00:30:04That's the only version that exists?
00:30:07It's the only one, and it's stuck inside,
00:30:10and it's your fault.
00:30:17I've devoted five of my most passionate years
00:30:20to this strange little creature.
00:30:24And I've never regretted it, Michael.
00:30:27Because I knew it was the only thing
00:30:30that could give my life any meaning.
00:30:32Allegra.
00:30:35Why is it my fault?
00:30:38I'm telling you, I didn't.
00:30:40I did not neurosurge. I didn't.
00:30:43I didn't feel any surging.
00:30:46It's not your fault.
00:30:49It's not your fault.
00:30:52It's my fault.
00:30:55Oh, no, Gas, not you.
00:30:58I wouldn't try to use that Bioport again,
00:31:02except maybe for a toast or something.
00:31:07What's going on?
00:31:10You're worth a lot of money if you're dead.
00:31:13What are you talking about?
00:31:16You know what I'm talking about.
00:31:18It's all over the countryside.
00:31:20Five million dollars for her dead body.
00:31:23No questions asked.
00:31:29She changed your life?
00:31:31Yep.
00:31:33And now I'm gonna change hers.
00:31:36Why did you install a bad port into me?
00:31:40Seems there's a big bonus
00:31:42for killing Allegra Geller's latest game,
00:31:45or whatever it is.
00:31:47I think I just did that, didn't I?
00:31:53Can you kill me, Gas?
00:31:56Can you kill a person?
00:31:58Can you do that?
00:32:00Hide my body?
00:32:03Contact the crazies?
00:32:06Trust them to pay up?
00:32:08Hand over my now-decaying, fucking grotesque corpse?
00:32:12Really expect them to hand over five mil cash?
00:32:16Hey, don't you ever go to the fucking movies?
00:32:21I like your script.
00:32:27I want to be in it.
00:32:46Hey.
00:32:55Oh, God, I think he's dead.
00:33:01He wanted to kill you.
00:33:03Yep.
00:33:09It's two people in one day
00:33:12who wanted to actually kill you.
00:33:16You've never been more popular.
00:33:19Allegra, we need help.
00:33:22You're right.
00:33:24I've got to get this pod fixed.
00:33:47We're going skiing.
00:34:05Hey.
00:34:07Hey, look at that huge bug.
00:34:10It's got two heads.
00:34:12It's not a bug.
00:34:14It's a mutated amphibian.
00:34:16It's a frog, salamander, lizard thing.
00:34:20It's not a lot of times.
00:34:30What happens if somebody comes up here and really wants to ski?
00:34:34Come on, Michael.
00:34:36Nobody actually physically skis anymore.
00:34:39You know that.
00:34:45No, don't use that.
00:34:47I'm bringing the sterile wash.
00:34:53My darling.
00:35:02Allegra killer.
00:35:05Oh, my God.
00:35:08Oh, my God.
00:35:11Allegra killer.
00:35:14I'm so pleased and so astonished to see you here.
00:35:20Kerry Vinegar, my bodyguard.
00:35:23Ted Paykel.
00:35:25Hello.
00:35:27Sterile wash.
00:35:31I hear this ridiculous story about some fatwa against you.
00:35:36The company are desperately trying to find you.
00:35:39Now, is this really serious? Are you in danger?
00:35:42There have been a couple of attempts on my life already.
00:35:45But this is unbearable. The company must stop this.
00:35:48They owe you every kind of protection.
00:35:50But I don't know if they can do anything.
00:35:52It seems to be open season on me.
00:35:56Well, you will be safe here, I assure you of that.
00:35:59I will contact Antenna right away
00:36:01and have them send some people over to come collect you.
00:36:04No, Kerry, don't.
00:36:06You mustn't let anybody know that we're here.
00:36:08I can't be sure that Antenna is completely safe for me.
00:36:11I understand, yes.
00:36:14You know, you can hide out in one of the guest chalets
00:36:20as long as you like.
00:36:23And I'll make sure you get fresh towels.
00:36:27And make sure I don't lose everything I have in here.
00:36:32You bet.
00:36:39Kestanam, kestanam, kestanam.
00:36:46Take that.
00:36:49Good.
00:36:54Hold this back.
00:36:58What did you pour it into?
00:37:02Michael's bioport.
00:37:04Really? That's what caused all the damage?
00:37:06It was, uh...
00:37:08It was a flawed installation. My first.
00:37:12Well...
00:37:15It fried a lot of very expensive neural webbing.
00:37:19You see?
00:37:21Looks like an animal in there.
00:37:24Feels like you're operating on somebody's pet dog.
00:37:28I told you, Landry.
00:37:30They have become glorified veterinarians.
00:37:34Clean that, please.
00:37:40The insistence game pod is basically an animal, Mr. Paykel.
00:37:45It's grown from fertilized amphibian eggs
00:37:48stuffed with synthetic DNA.
00:37:51Only Antenna Research has this.
00:37:54Wow.
00:37:56Where did the batteries go?
00:37:59Very funny.
00:38:01He's not kidding.
00:38:03He's a total P.R. nerd.
00:38:05Ports into you.
00:38:07You're the power source.
00:38:09Your body, your nervous system, your metabolism, your energy.
00:38:13You get tired, run down, it won't run properly.
00:38:17Okay.
00:38:20Landry here will finish up the pod work.
00:38:22Now let's get that nasty bioport
00:38:25after you put nice fresh one in there.
00:38:33Oh, shh.
00:38:35It hurts.
00:38:37I think it's infected.
00:38:39No, it's not infected.
00:38:43It's just excited.
00:38:47It wants action.
00:38:49But I really don't think that I want action.
00:38:51Me, I mean.
00:38:52The bearer of the excited bioport.
00:38:58My baby here has now taken three major hits, Paykel.
00:39:02One in the church, one in the gas station,
00:39:05and one on the operating table.
00:39:07The only way I can tell if everything's okay
00:39:11is to play Existenz with somebody friendly.
00:39:16Are you friendly or are you not?
00:39:24You're telling me this thing will run off my body's energy?
00:39:28That's how they work.
00:39:32See? You're humming along already.
00:39:37Okay.
00:39:39Existenz.
00:39:42Only from antenna.
00:39:45Here we go.
00:39:46You got a bit of an unfair advantage, don't you?
00:39:50How can I possibly compete with the designer of the system?
00:39:56Well, you could beat the guy that invented poker, couldn't you?
00:40:26You want that one?
00:40:27Yes.
00:40:29You want that one?
00:40:31Yes.
00:40:41That was beautiful.
00:40:51I feel just like me.
00:40:54Is that kind of transition normal?
00:40:56That kind of smooth interlacing from place to place?
00:41:03It depends on the style of game.
00:41:05You can get jagged, brutal cuts, slow fades, shimmering little morphs.
00:41:15This is amazing.
00:41:19I had no idea.
00:41:24Look at this. Games I've never heard of.
00:41:28Wait a minute. That reminds me.
00:41:32What precisely is the goal of the game that we're playing now?
00:41:37You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game.
00:41:43It's the future, Michael.
00:41:46You'll see how natural it feels.
00:41:54Look at this.
00:42:14Look at this.
00:42:21Can this be the future, too?
00:42:23Have you seen this before?
00:42:24These are delicate. You've got to be careful.
00:42:30Yes, I can imagine.
00:42:32Particle systematics is the latest and the hottest.
00:42:36Not just a new game, but a new system.
00:42:40Will it work with an industry standard Bioport?
00:42:44I'm Darcy Nader.
00:42:47Welcome to Darcy Nader's Game Emporium.
00:42:51Is there anything I can be helping you with?
00:42:56We're just looking.
00:43:03I have what you're looking for.
00:43:10Who sent you?
00:43:14It's none of your business who sent us.
00:43:17We're here. That's all that matters.
00:43:22God.
00:43:25What happened?
00:43:28I didn't mean to say that.
00:43:31It's your character who said it.
00:43:33It's a kind of schizophrenic feeling, isn't it?
00:43:36You'll get used to it.
00:43:38There are things that have to be said to advance the plot and establish the characters.
00:43:42And those things get said whether you want to say them or not.
00:43:45Don't fight it. Just go with it.
00:43:49But should you be saying this in front of him?
00:43:55Look at him.
00:44:03What's he doing?
00:44:05He's gone into a game loop.
00:44:07He won't come out of it until you give him the proper line of game dialogue.
00:44:14This is tricky.
00:44:18Start by repeating your last line.
00:44:21Include his name so he knows you're talking to him.
00:44:29We're here, Darcy Nader.
00:44:32And that's all that matters.
00:44:35Yes, you're right. That is all that matters.
00:44:44Now, you said you have what we want.
00:44:48We were waiting.
00:44:51You're going to need these micropods to download your new identities.
00:44:57I assume that you both have had these industry standard Bioports that you mentioned installed.
00:45:06Yes, of course. We both have Bioports.
00:45:12We do, don't we?
00:45:14I assume we did.
00:45:18In the game, of course we might not.
00:45:21You better check.
00:45:24Yeah, it's there.
00:45:26It looks a little different, but it's there.
00:45:32Yeah, I see what you mean.
00:45:35Yes, we both have Bioports.
00:45:39Good.
00:45:41Port in.
00:45:43And this will tell you all you need to know.
00:45:47For now.
00:45:49I'm going to leave while you two finish up here, because it wouldn't be a good result to be seen together.
00:46:09I assume that Nader is our entry point into the game.
00:46:13Yeah, kind of disappointing.
00:46:16Nader?
00:46:17Yeah, he's not a very well-drawn character. His dialogue was just so-so.
00:46:22His accent...
00:46:25Yeah.
00:46:34Okay.
00:46:37These pods are so small.
00:46:41They plug directly into the Bioport.
00:46:51Okay.
00:46:56Oh, God!
00:46:57What happened?
00:46:59The whole pod just disappeared into your back.
00:47:05It disappeared into my back? It's in my spine? It's working its way around my spinal cord?
00:47:09Don't panic. It's just a game.
00:47:12Do you feel anything yet?
00:47:16No, I don't.
00:47:18I'm not a thing. I don't feel a thing.
00:47:23Do you want me to do you?
00:47:24Yeah.
00:47:35Okay.
00:47:38Okay.
00:48:04What the hell was that?
00:48:07That wasn't me. It was my game character.
00:48:10I wouldn't have done that, not here, anyway.
00:48:32Characters are obviously supposed to jump on each other.
00:48:36It's most probably a specifically mechanical attempt...
00:48:42to heighten the emotional tension of the next game sequence.
00:48:56He's fighting it now.
00:48:58What about our new identities?
00:49:02Do you feel yours yet?
00:49:05They'll take care of themselves.
00:49:14I'm very worried about my body.
00:49:17You?
00:49:22Where are our real bodies?
00:49:25Are they all right?
00:49:27What if they're hungry? What if there's danger?
00:49:32Just where we left them.
00:49:35We're sitting quietly, eyes closed.
00:49:42It's just like meditating.
00:49:52I feel really vulnerable.
00:49:55Disembodied.
00:49:58Okay.
00:50:03Don't sweat.
00:50:10All your senses are still operating.
00:50:18You're gonna pop right out of the game if there's a problem.
00:50:33Oh, God.
00:50:37Oh, God.
00:51:01Trying to remember who you are?
00:51:05Hey, the way it works, I must be of canny nourish.
00:51:10And you, you are new to Trout Farm?
00:51:13Yeah.
00:51:15Yes, I'm... I'm very new.
00:51:19Did you say Trout Farm?
00:51:22Yeah, Trout Farm. Trout Farm.
00:51:24You know, raising baby trout from eggs and releasing them in breethers.
00:51:29Entire place used to be Trout Farm.
00:51:32Outside, you would never guess it's now factory for making game pods.
00:51:37Seems like most everything used to be something else, yes?
00:51:49You might be new, but you seem to know what you're doing.
00:51:53It surprises me more than it surprises you.
00:51:57You might be new, but you seem to know what you're doing.
00:52:28I've been trained by the very best.
00:52:36So have I, my friend. So have I.
00:52:40Where are you planning to have lunch?
00:52:46I'm new here.
00:52:49I have no plans for lunch.
00:52:53I have no plans for lunch.
00:52:56May I suggest the Chinese restaurant in the forest?
00:53:00Everyone knows where it is. Just ask.
00:53:05Well, won't you be going there too?
00:53:09Unfortunately, I have other plans for lunch.
00:53:12But I do suggest you order the special, and don't take no for answer.
00:53:18All right. I'll do that.
00:53:24Larry!
00:53:28Yes?
00:53:30Leave this in the back room. They asked for you.
00:53:53All right.
00:54:23All right.
00:54:54Hey.
00:54:59I saw you make contact, Larry Ashen.
00:55:02What did the guy on the assembly line say to you?
00:55:04Can you believe the game version of your pod?
00:55:07It's sick. So unconvincing.
00:55:10I mean, using mutated animal organs and nervous systems as game pod parts is certainly feasible, but...
00:55:17Everything here is so dirty.
00:55:20Absurd.
00:55:22Grotesque.
00:55:34I saw you make contact, Larry Ashen.
00:55:37What did the guy on the assembly line say to you?
00:55:41He told me where to have lunch.
00:56:12We have nice sea bass today.
00:56:16Shall I bring it for everyone?
00:56:20We want a special.
00:56:26I'm sorry, sir.
00:56:28It's all right.
00:56:30It's all right.
00:56:32It's all right.
00:56:34It's all right.
00:56:36It's all right.
00:56:38It's all right.
00:56:48Did you hear me, Chinese waiter?
00:56:52We want the special.
00:56:55The special is for special occasions.
00:56:59I cannot give you the special.
00:57:03But this is a special occasion.
00:57:09It's her birthday.
00:57:14A birthday is a special occasion.
00:57:17I will therefore bring the special for everybody.
00:57:32I guess the special isn't very popular.
00:57:35I guess not.
00:57:46I want to put the game on pause.
00:57:51The game can be paused, can't it?
00:57:54I mean, all games can be paused, right?
00:57:57Yeah, sure.
00:57:59But why? What's wrong?
00:58:01I mean, aren't you dying to see what's so special about the special?
00:58:05I'm feeling a little disconnected from my real life.
00:58:09I'm kind of losing touch with the texture of it, you know what I mean?
00:58:13I mean, I actually think there's an element of psychosis involved here.
00:58:18Yes. This is a great sign.
00:58:21It means your nervous system is fully engaging with the game architecture.
00:58:30Existence is paused!
00:58:47Did I do that?
00:58:51I guess I did.
00:58:54So how does it feel?
00:58:57What?
00:59:02Your real life.
00:59:05The one you came back for.
00:59:07It feels completely unreal.
00:59:10You're stuck now, aren't you?
00:59:14You want to go back to the Chinese restaurant.
00:59:17There's nothing happening here.
00:59:20You're safe.
00:59:22It's boring.
00:59:26It's worse than that.
00:59:39I'm not sure.
00:59:42I'm not sure here, where we are, is real at all.
00:59:51This feels like a game to me.
00:59:56And you, you're beginning to feel a bit like a game character.
01:00:08Definitely not.
01:00:20Let's go back.
01:00:51Special order for the birthday girl.
01:01:03Hope you enjoy it very much.
01:01:21Look, it's our two-headed friend.
01:01:24Doesn't look too healthy.
01:01:27I think I lost my appetite.
01:01:30A shame.
01:01:33Mutant reptiles and amphibians provide new and previously unimagined taste sensations.
01:01:41Shall I clear all this away?
01:01:45No.
01:01:48We're happy.
01:01:53Very good.
01:01:55Enjoy.
01:02:18Michael.
01:02:21What are you doing?
01:02:23I don't know.
01:02:26I find this disgusting, but I can't help myself.
01:02:33Good.
01:02:35Good? You think this is good?
01:02:38Yeah, it's a genuine game urge.
01:02:42Something your game character was born to do.
01:02:45Don't fight it.
01:02:47I'm fighting it.
01:02:50But it isn't doing me any good.
01:03:12I don't know.
01:03:43Oh, my God.
01:03:47This looks awfully familiar.
01:03:55You sure this is okay?
01:03:58Yeah, it should be okay.
01:04:13Do you have that bridge in real life?
01:04:17Absolutely not.
01:04:19My teeth are perfect.
01:04:24Do you have that bridge in real life?
01:04:28Absolutely not.
01:04:30My teeth are perfect.
01:04:54Death.
01:04:56To the demoness, Allegra Geller.
01:05:06That's not funny.
01:05:12Sorry.
01:05:14I'm sorry.
01:05:16I'm sorry.
01:05:18I'm sorry.
01:05:21Sorry.
01:05:26But you know...
01:05:29I do feel the urge to kill someone here.
01:05:33Who?
01:05:42I need to kill our waiter.
01:05:45Oh.
01:05:51Well, that makes sense.
01:05:55Um...
01:05:57Waiter!
01:05:59Waiter!
01:06:05When he comes over, do it. Don't hesitate.
01:06:08But...
01:06:10Everything in the game is so realistic.
01:06:13I...
01:06:15I don't think I really could.
01:06:17Well, to stop yourself, you might as well enjoy it.
01:06:20Free will is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours.
01:06:26It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.
01:06:36He's too nice.
01:06:39I won't do it.
01:06:42What can I do to make your lunch more pleasant?
01:06:47I found this in my soup, and I'm very upset.
01:07:17It's all right.
01:07:44Just, uh...
01:07:46A little misunderstanding over the check.
01:07:57Pay no attention, and enjoy your meal.
01:08:02Yeah.
01:08:12I feel a serious game urge to get out of here.
01:08:24To the kitchen. That way.
01:08:32Did you like the meal I prepared for you?
01:08:36Yeah.
01:08:38It was very...
01:08:41Revealing.
01:08:43Yes, it certainly was for me.
01:08:45You both passed a little test with flying colors.
01:08:48Why did the Chinese waiter have to die?
01:08:51Waiter?
01:08:53He has many things spoken when people are relaxing and eating.
01:08:58A waiter has many opportunities for betrayal.
01:09:05He betrayed you?
01:09:07He betrayed us.
01:09:09Us.
01:09:11Come, this way.
01:09:14Come.
01:09:22These are the breeding pools.
01:09:25Breeding pools.
01:09:27Is this, uh...
01:09:29Is this where you caught today's special?
01:09:32We originally were raising these mutant creatures for the nervous systems for game pods.
01:09:39But then we found they could be quite tasty.
01:09:43And so we opened a restaurant, and now that is our cover.
01:09:47But, of course, we are also raising them as components for undetectable and hypoallergenic animals.
01:09:54Hypoallergenic weapons.
01:09:56Right under the noses of our enemies.
01:09:59And speaking of our enemies, it's important that you go back to work at Cortical Systematics.
01:10:06We need to maintain as many agents there as possible.
01:10:11The trout farm is owned by Cortical Systematics?
01:10:14Yeah. Their corporate slogan should be, enemies of reality.
01:10:19Someday soon, we will destroy trout farm and all game pods inside.
01:10:27We love you.
01:10:31Now that you have proven to be true and trustworthy realists...
01:10:41We'll be in touch.
01:10:50CORTICAL SYSTEMATICS
01:11:02I'm looking for Darcy Nader. Is he here?
01:11:06CORTICAL SYSTEMATICS
01:11:18Hugo Carlaw. Is Darcy Nader here?
01:11:23He's in the back.
01:11:29You want him?
01:11:30There he is.
01:11:36You shouldn't have killed the Chinese waiter.
01:11:40Why not?
01:11:42He was your contact at the trout farm.
01:11:46Damn good man.
01:11:48His dog brought me this.
01:11:53We were contacted there by Yevgeny Nuresh. He seemed to know exactly who we were.
01:11:57That's because Nader tipped him off that you were coming. Nader was a mole.
01:12:01You're with the realists underground?
01:12:03Yes. I was placed here to keep an eye on Nader.
01:12:09If Nuresh isn't our real contact, who is he?
01:12:13Nuresh is a double agent for CORTICAL SYSTEMATICS.
01:12:16He was working with Nader to subvert the realists' cause.
01:12:19And doing it rather well. After all, he got you to assassinate your own contact.
01:12:24But now you're going to put a stop to him?
01:12:29I don't want to be here.
01:12:32Come on, Michael.
01:12:34We've just got a bad case of first-time user anxiety.
01:12:38I don't like it here.
01:12:40I don't know what's going on.
01:12:42We're both scared.
01:12:44I don't want to be here.
01:12:46I don't want to be here.
01:12:48I don't want to be here.
01:12:50I don't want to be here.
01:12:52I don't know what's going on.
01:12:54We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world
01:12:59whose rules and objectives are largely unknown,
01:13:02seemingly indecipherable, or even possibly nonexistent,
01:13:05always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand.
01:13:11It sounds like my game, all right.
01:13:14It sounds like a game. It's not going to be easy to market.
01:13:17But it's a game everybody's already playing.
01:13:22It's a game.
01:13:33The cashier said it would be in a familiar place.
01:13:38Is there such a thing here?
01:13:41My assembly bay.
01:13:52Is that it over there?
01:14:23God, it's ugly even for a game pod.
01:14:29I have a terrible urge to pour it into it.
01:14:33What about you?
01:14:35Sure, yeah.
01:14:37Desperate to pour it into it.
01:14:43I'm not sure I want to be here.
01:14:46I don't want to be here.
01:14:48I don't want to be here.
01:14:53All right, here we go.
01:14:55You want to give me a hand?
01:14:57You're not serious?
01:14:59I mean, that's a diseased pod.
01:15:01You poured into that?
01:15:03Yes, exactly.
01:15:05Help me.
01:15:07How long does it take for the infection to take hold?
01:15:13No time at all.
01:15:16And then you quietly pour it into all the other pods
01:15:19and spread the infection to them?
01:15:22I don't know.
01:15:24I don't know.
01:15:26I don't know.
01:15:28I don't know.
01:15:30I don't know.
01:15:32I don't know.
01:15:34I don't know.
01:15:36I don't know.
01:15:39Well, good.
01:15:41Tell me.
01:15:43Huh.
01:15:45Something's wrong.
01:15:47I'm gonna put you down.
01:15:51Ah, no, don't, don't.
01:15:53That really hurts.
01:15:55That really hurts.
01:15:56I'm gonna cut you free.
01:16:03No, I'm afraid.
01:16:05Shh.
01:16:07♪♪
01:16:15-♪♪
01:16:25-♪♪
01:16:31Michael, I'm bleeding to death.
01:16:35♪♪
01:16:41-♪♪
01:16:48I'm sorry.
01:16:51I don't know.
01:16:53I don't know what else to do.
01:16:55I know what to do.
01:16:58I know exactly what to do.
01:17:02-♪♪
01:17:05Death to realism!
01:17:07-♪♪
01:17:11Burn!
01:17:12-♪♪
01:17:14Burn to this part!
01:17:16-♪♪
01:17:19Ow!
01:17:21-♪♪
01:17:23-♪♪
01:17:33-♪♪
01:17:43-♪♪
01:17:53-♪♪
01:17:56Death to the demoness!
01:17:59Demoness!
01:18:01-♪♪
01:18:10I think we just lost the game.
01:18:12-♪♪
01:18:20Or maybe not.
01:18:22-♪♪
01:18:29Michael, we're back home.
01:18:32We're back home.
01:18:34-♪♪
01:18:38What's the matter? What's wrong?
01:18:40-♪♪
01:18:43It's happened.
01:18:45It's come back here with us.
01:18:47We brought it back from existence.
01:18:49-♪♪
01:18:50I can't understand what you're saying.
01:18:52-♪♪
01:18:53We brought the disease back with us.
01:18:55My pod is diseased.
01:18:57Oh, God.
01:18:59I'm really gonna lose it.
01:19:01I'm gonna lose my game.
01:19:04Unport me.
01:19:06Unport me.
01:19:07All right.
01:19:09Okay.
01:19:10I'm coming.
01:19:12I'm coming.
01:19:15This can't be possible.
01:19:17How can a game event emerge into real life?
01:19:21There's a very weird reality bleed-through effect
01:19:24happening here.
01:19:25I'm not sure I get it.
01:19:28Come on.
01:19:31Come on.
01:19:34Come on.
01:19:36The spore aside,
01:19:38pods are susceptible to spore infections.
01:19:40It can work if you get it in time.
01:19:43Come on.
01:19:44Come on.
01:19:48Let me see your bioport.
01:19:51What?
01:19:52Let me see it.
01:19:54What?
01:19:57I know what happened.
01:19:59It's Kerry Vinegar, that bastard.
01:20:02Vinegar?
01:20:03He gave you a new bioport, didn't he?
01:20:06Oh, God.
01:20:08He gave you an infected bioport so that my pod would die
01:20:11and so would my game system.
01:20:13I'm infected?
01:20:14Wait a minute.
01:20:15The poor thing was trying to tell us
01:20:17that it was sick by introducing the theme of disease
01:20:19into the game.
01:20:20The theme of disease?
01:20:21I'm fucking really infected.
01:20:24What, is it gonna crawl up my spine and rot my brain?
01:20:26All right, all right, just calm down.
01:20:28I've got something that will help you.
01:20:37Turn around.
01:20:40I'm gonna seal up your bioport with this spore-cidal resonator.
01:20:44It uses the umbi pickups for power
01:20:47to cleanse all your reporting channels of infection
01:20:49within a few hours.
01:20:52It's gonna give you a slight skin buzz when it's done.
01:20:56Of course, we can't play until then.
01:20:58Agreed.
01:21:00Now, listen, listen.
01:21:03This could be critical.
01:21:05Were you really saying that Vinegar is an agent for the...
01:21:10Oh, God.
01:21:12Michael, my pod's dying.
01:21:16I can't help it.
01:21:18There's nothing I can do for it.
01:21:27Oh.
01:21:39The uprising has begun!
01:21:41The world is in flames! Let's go!
01:21:43You gotta get out of here! They're gonna be looking for you!
01:21:45The cashier?
01:21:47He's a game character. How can he be here?
01:21:49Leave that rotting piece of meat here! It's done its job!
01:21:51Wait, wait, wait! I keep my game inside there!
01:21:53I can't let my game die!
01:21:54No! Wait!
01:21:56Aah!
01:22:02Aah!
01:22:08Four of you, through the door there!
01:22:10Allegra!
01:22:12Listen to me. Listen to me!
01:22:14I think we're still inside the game.
01:22:17I think your pod's out there somewhere, somewhere safe.
01:22:20I think it's all right to let go of this one.
01:22:22This pod, it's not the real one.
01:22:30Everybody out now!
01:22:38All right, men!
01:22:39This way! Come on! Follow me!
01:22:46This way! Come on!
01:22:47Fire! Fire!
01:22:50Up here!
01:22:57You can see everything from up here!
01:22:59What is it that we're seeing?
01:23:01The victory of realism.
01:23:04And you were part of it.
01:23:09The death of existenz.
01:23:11And we were part of it.
01:23:15There's just one more thing.
01:23:19We're on your side!
01:23:21How could you be?
01:23:23How could Allegra Geller, the world's premier game designer,
01:23:27be on our side?
01:23:29Oh, yeah. We know who you are.
01:23:32But you can't hide inside a game forever.
01:23:34Something's slipped over the edge here, Allegra.
01:23:37Something's all wrong.
01:23:39See what I mean?
01:23:41See the problem?
01:23:46Aah!
01:23:49Aah!
01:24:00I tried to find you. Thank God I got here in time.
01:24:03My dog broke me this.
01:24:06You didn't get here in time.
01:24:09My game is dead.
01:24:11You murdered my game!
01:24:13No!
01:24:15I murdered your pod!
01:24:17It's healthy and happy!
01:24:19No.
01:24:20I replicated your pod's entire nervous system
01:24:24during our little surgical procedure at the chalet.
01:24:27Complete with contents.
01:24:31You copied existenz?
01:24:36Allegra.
01:24:38Come over to Cortical Systematics.
01:24:41Yes. Yes. Cortical Systematics.
01:24:44I am defecting, and so are all antennas top brass.
01:24:48You're a spy for Cortical Systematics?
01:24:50If you want to be reunited with your baby,
01:24:52you'll come over to us.
01:25:06Can you talk to her?
01:25:08It would be best for everyone.
01:25:11I mean, you can come with us, too.
01:25:15Aah!
01:25:23What the fuck are you doing?
01:25:26You've killed him.
01:25:31Are you gonna kill me next?
01:25:35Michael, he was only a game character.
01:25:37I don't like the way he was messing with my mind.
01:25:40You didn't like that, so you killed him.
01:25:44He's only a game character.
01:25:46Allegra.
01:25:48What if we're not in the game anymore?
01:25:54If we're not.
01:25:57If we're not,
01:25:59then you just killed someone real.
01:26:03It was no accident that you and I ended up on the run together.
01:26:08Not an accident.
01:26:11No.
01:26:14That's why you never had a Bioport.
01:26:17You were one of them.
01:26:19I still am one of them.
01:26:22But you have a Bioport now.
01:26:24I made the Bioport sacrifice to get close to you.
01:26:27Why would you want it?
01:26:29To understand what I had to kill.
01:26:32Then understand this.
01:26:34Understand I knew that you were my real assassin
01:26:37when you pointed the gun at me in the Chinese restaurant.
01:26:40And understand that...
01:26:44you're dead.
01:26:53Death to the demons!
01:26:56Death to the demon 10!
01:27:06Have I won?
01:27:09Have I won the game?
01:27:12Have I won?
01:27:25Have I won?
01:27:29Have I won?
01:27:36Have I won?
01:27:56Are you all back?
01:28:00We're back.
01:28:02We're back, Merle.
01:28:04But I have a feeling some of our crew doesn't realize it yet.
01:28:11Wow.
01:28:13Anybody want a bowl of hot and sour soup?
01:28:16It's on me.
01:28:20Yes, I'll have some.
01:28:22Are you sure there's some mutated amphibian nervous systems in the rice?
01:28:27You know, my accent in the game was so thick I could hardly understand myself.
01:28:33How long were we gone?
01:28:34About 20 minutes.
01:28:36God, it seemed like days. It's fantastic.
01:28:38Just think about it, man.
01:28:40If you stayed your whole life in the game world,
01:28:42then you could live to about, I don't know, 500 years.
01:28:48The twists and turns at the end made my head spin.
01:28:52Maybe there was too many too fast to absorb.
01:28:56I sucked.
01:28:58But you guys were great.
01:28:59I mean, you were like game divas.
01:29:01Personally, I think you both deserve to win.
01:29:12I was really bummed out at first.
01:29:14I got knocked out of the game so soon.
01:29:16It's fantastic how mean you were.
01:29:18Really scary and crazy.
01:29:20I had a lot to do in that first scene at the church,
01:29:23but I thought the character was boring.
01:29:26Well, no matter how boring you were, you still all get a certificate.
01:29:30A certificate for helping us out here.
01:29:33Am I right about this, Merle?
01:29:35Yes, and that will entitle you to reserve one of the first batch
01:29:39of the Transcendence by Pilgrimage game modules
01:29:41to hit the market at a seriously discounted price.
01:29:44You're going to love it.
01:29:45Remember, it's written like this.
01:29:47Capital C, capital Z.
01:29:49Transcendence.
01:29:50It's new.
01:29:51It's from Pilgrimage.
01:29:52Capital P, capital I, and it's coming soon.
01:29:55I just want to say thank you to Mr. Nourish
01:29:59for giving me the chance to play the role of a star designer.
01:30:04I guess the game picked up on my ambition to be like you.
01:30:07Allegra, you were so good in that role
01:30:10that I suspect it won't be long before Pilgrimage is after you
01:30:13to sign a designing contract.
01:30:15And maybe you should bring along your friend Ted here,
01:30:18Mr. Paykel.
01:30:19He's obviously pretty good in a crisis,
01:30:21and when you're designing games, there's plenty of those.
01:30:26I guess you could all tell that Paykel and I
01:30:28had a relationship prior to coming here.
01:30:31We really do like to play together.
01:30:34We do.
01:30:35But I'd just like to assure everybody here
01:30:38that Allegra wouldn't really jump into bed with the security guard.
01:30:43Unless he were me.
01:30:47Well, what do we have to say
01:30:48to our brilliant, award-winning game designer, Yevgeny Nourish?
01:30:51Does he have another winner on his hands or not?
01:30:55APPLAUSE
01:31:11Earl, I was very disturbed by the game we just played.
01:31:16What do you mean?
01:31:17It had a very strong, very real anti-game theme.
01:31:21I mean, it began with the attempted assassination of a game designer.
01:31:25Really?
01:31:26That's very creative.
01:31:31On second thought, I see what you mean.
01:31:33It does make me nervous.
01:31:35You think this must have come from one of our game players?
01:31:38Well, it sure didn't come from me.
01:31:43Let's probe it when we do the focus group.
01:31:47Thank you for looking after my dog.
01:32:01Hi.
01:32:05We just wanted to ask Mr Nourish some questions away from the others.
01:32:09Yeah. Sure. Shoot.
01:32:12As long as you don't ask me to fill in your questionnaires.
01:32:16We've played your game now,
01:32:18so we can finally agree with the others that you are indeed
01:32:21the world's greatest game artist.
01:32:23We weren't sure before.
01:32:28Oh, thanks so much.
01:32:30Yevgeny, don't you think you should have to suffer
01:32:33for all the harm you've done and intend to do to the human race?
01:32:38What?
01:32:39Yes.
01:32:40Don't you think the world's greatest game artist
01:32:43ought to be punished
01:32:45for the most effective deforming of reality?
01:32:49I don't think this is very...
01:32:51Guys, can you come over here right now, please?
01:32:54Guys, can you come over here right now, please?
01:33:13Death to the demon, Yevgeny Nourish!
01:33:17Death to Pilgrimage!
01:33:19Death to Transcendence!
01:33:24Death to the demon, Yevgeny Nourish!
01:33:42No, no, no, no! You know this, you and me!
01:33:48Hey, tell me the truth.
01:33:50Are we still in the game?
01:33:54Are we still in the game?
01:34:24Are we still in the game?
01:35:54Are we still in the game?