20 abril 2009

eXistenZ (1999)


Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her bodyguard. Unfortunately, her pod, an organic gaming device that contains the only copy of the eXistenZ game program, is damaged. To inspect it, she talks Ted into accepting a gameport in his own body so he can play the game with her. The events leading up to this, and the resulting game lead the pair on a strange adventure where reality and their actions are impossible to determine from either their own or the game's perspective.


Realizado por David Cronenberg, eXistenZ mistura a realidade com a virtualidade paralela de forma confusa e perturbante. Entre uma realidade simulada e uma realidade vazia e sem sentido, os protagonistas deambulam pela imaginação de um jogo sem regras, sem referências, em que os seres vivos são mutantes e os humanos espiões e contra-espiões subvertendo os referenciais da confiança e da busca de sentido.
No entanto, este jogo não é um jogo qualquer. Mistura manipulações genética e a imersão do ser humano através de um cordão umbilical que se liga a uma bio-porta implantada na base da coluna. Desta forma, sem uma modificação bio-fisiológica, os jogadores não podem ser ligados, nem entrar na realidade do Game-Pod.
Uma vez ligado, o homem perde a noção da realidade, parecendo drogado. De tão aditivo, o jogo leva à anulação de valores éticos e morais, reduzindo a vida, a morte, as sensações, à simulação com a consciência de que não passam de «personagens de um jogo» a quem tudo é permitido.
Todavia no fim, Pikul mantém a dúvida: «are we still in the game?»

13 abril 2009

Stand by me

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me-e, yeah

Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me





[Ben E. King sempre bom de recordar!
Brilhante a montagem no vídeo: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741
Obrigada Luz!]

07 abril 2009

sillyworld

Freedom's just a word today
Freedom's just a word
When someone takes your word away it's seldom ever heard
So take a sentence full of things you're not supposed to say
Carry on, but don't write it down or you'll be gone

Love is just a song today
Love is just a song
When someone takes the song away
you seldom sing along
So take those lyrics serious and sing your life away
Carry on, but don't write 'em down or they'll be gone

All we ever do is talk
We like to ride but we never walk
We make it so damn easy
We get bored
Why can't anybody see what's good for you is good for me
I can't take your sillyworld
And I can't take your sillyworld no more

Peace is just two fingers now
Peace was just a phase
When someone put it on a shirt
*you knew to count the days
So take those fingers tape 'em up and shove 'em up your ass and carry on but don't try it now cause peace is gone

All we ever do is talk
We like to ride but we never walk
We make it so damn easy
We get bored
Why can't anybody see what's good for you is bad for me
I can't take your sillyworld
And I can't take your sillyworld no more

We fight our instincts
We go to extremes
We fight our lives...


[pois, há mais quem veja que só palavras não chegam. há mais quem grite, que palavras leva-as o vento. não basta falarmos das coisas para que elas existam, nem ignorá-las para que elas desapareçam... Stone Sour, os meninos do zzyxz road e de through glass]

01 abril 2009

Lucky

Do you hear me,
I'm talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I'll wait for you I promise you, I will

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

And so I'm sailing through the sea
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now


[que combinação harmoniosa de vozes!!! finalmente, o retrato do amor como amizade, com todas as vantagens que daí advém... Lindo!!!]