eXistenZ is a movie that is set in a future where gaming has advanced to the point where people can be truly detached from reality. This follows the story of two characters named Allegra Geller and Ted Pikul. Allegra Geller is one of the most well known game designers in the world, and creates the new game, eXistenZ. Ted Pikul is a security guard given the task to protect Allegra from the people out to destroy her and her game. 
Technology in this movie has advanced to where game consoles are made of flesh and are called pods. Even a gun was made of bone and the bullets were teeth. Many forms of technology in this movie were alive and made out of flesh. An umbi cord, which looked much like a human umbilical cord, attached the fleshy pod to the player via the spinal column. The pods were living, breathing creatures that intimately connect to the player. Each player is given a bioport which is connected to the base of a person’s spinal cord.
After going through the game eXistenZ, it was implied that the characters were still inside the game. Allegra ends up murdering Ted, which causes a new game to end. This new reality is called tranCendenZ. Allegra and Ted were people in the game tranCendenZ, not existing outside of that universe. Many of the characters found in eXistenZ were really people playing tranCendenZ. The end of the movie did hint that they never left the game. There could be multiple realities compounded on top of each other to create this never ending loop. It makes us question what is real and if we are apart of a different reality that could be a game to another universe. Is this all just a game? Or are we in the outermost reality?
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