Film Review

Videodrome (1983) by David Cronenberg. The story seems to be geared towards mass audience that finds itself feeding its mind with subliminal messaging off the Television programing. The broadcaster, the one who chooses the programming, is completely unconscious of the impact that television has on his mind and the public mind.

He is merely a puppet of a greater force that is reeling its power behind the scenes, awaiting an opportune moment to infiltrate the mass public and convert them to a new way of thinking. All the while, the master plan is brewing, to create a new life form, one which merges the television world and physical dimension with the humans' now sickened mind and body.

Science fiction stories have often been precursers to how our civilization advances, not simple entertainment of a wild mind. If the human brain can fathom, often it is possible. In fact, someone, in a science lab, locked away in some facility's basement, is most likely working on it right now, and the only reason you don't know about it is because someone always knows hat the public is not ready for it, is not ready to accept its future because it is too ugly of its ill intent-- often, not always, but often.

Someone always seeks gain, and any product of any imagination is simply a new way to cash in, you see, and the longer they can keep up the farce, the longer they can cash in. So, no matter how literally or metaphorically you want to accept this story, Videodrome, you can take away one very real fact from it, one you cannot get away from.

Television has created a public that is easier to control, that is it. Television has slowly been infiltrating our minds over decades to make puppets out of us, ones that think less and have less expectations from everything in this world. And now that we have come around to this idea we begin to look to the internet as a new better thing. Is it not parallel in concept?

Videodrome may be outdated, maybe we already know, but, how long will it take before we realize that the internet has been vastly used as an extenuation of these concepts presented in the film. Film and Television often thrived and developed in countries during political and social unrest, as a tool to subvert and adjust public opinion under the guise of "education" for the masses.

The internet is now used for free information exchange, in a time of GLOBAL political, economic and social unrest. Very interesting.