Videodrome
The film Videodrome was released in 1983 and the story line was far ahead of it’s time.
The beginning of the film was about a man (Max) who got addicted to this hard core pornography that was being beaming in from a satellite. He began having hallucinations and turning into the film.

The film was about people interacting with their televisions and computers. Technology becoming part of us, as humans, was an issue in the film, the main character becomes a VCR machine, when a slot in his stomach opens and video cassettes are inserted, the cassette then plays out in his imagination.
This kind of merging of technology and human being, is common in the twenty-first century. For example virtual reality games, when the user wears a helmet and it then transported to some other world. The internet also allows communication by chat rooms, instant messenger, email and video phones. Adult websites even allow you to manipulate the acts depicted instantly through your computer. Face to face communication is no longer needed.

The director Cronenberg wanted to portray the merging of machine and human, in the film the main character Max points a gun into the hole in his stomach and the hole engulfs the gun, this illustrated this human and machine becoming one.

The film predicted that in the future we will communicate using computers and new technology, which has now been proven right. It is scary that a film written twenty years ago can be so accurate in predicting future trends.

Although I found this film slightly strange at first, I enjoyed it and once you analyse it you can understand the meaning of it, the human and machine merging.

A quote from the director Cronenberg “It is, I suppose, a comment on media, the human body and the concept of reality as being something that is a concept of will rather then some absolute that’s given to us. Those three things I think are the tripod the movie stands on” (Cronenberg on Cronenberg, Faber Books).