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Long Live the New Flesh!
by St. Michael (movies profile)
Oct 9, 2006
3
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3 people found this review helpful
Videodrome is the story of Max Renn, small-time cable channel owner torn between the mysterious, competing forces attempting to exploit the brain-changing, halucinogenic properties of the broadcast signal of the title program. Max's channel is pure bottom-of-the-barrel, give-the-people-what-they-want sleaze. This makes the Videodrome program, which features random scenes of torture, mutilation, and death in a single, stark room, perfect for his audience. As he is drawn into the struggle, he loses his grip on reality, and his world becomes increasingly bizarre and nightmarish.
Cronenberg is at the height of his abilities here. Everything - dialogue, sets, cinematography, editing - is carefully designed to echo his themes of television as an extension of consciousness (the "retina of the mind's eye") and the changes it causes to our perceptions. The result is a multilayered feast of imagery that only becomes richer on repeated viewings. |
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