录影带谋杀案

David Cronenberg’s film Videodrome (1983) refreshes my memory of watching his another work The Fly (1986). The similar color tone and picture sense in these 80s science fiction movies brought me a similar fear of human alienation. This kind of alienation both results from some invention created by human self. While the structure of The Fly is based on a confrontation to instrumental rationality represented by science, Videodrome is aimed at mass medium which replaces the real with the semiotics. In Baudrilled’s theory of simulacra, media technology is not copying the real, but producing the real. Under the domination of the media world, the receivers become passive ones. So we can see two levels of controling by medium in this film: the first level is the Max’s pornographic channel and his group; the second level is the “new flesh” team centered on O’Blivion. For the Max’s channel, it is to induce majority to purchase and consume something the profit of which benefit the minority. The public, as the recipient, is controlled by the subconscious of the brain without recognize it. These control elements are basic-level emotional thoughts, sex, abuse, etc. For O’Blivion’s group, this controlling is based on a radical view of Mcluhan’s point that media is the extension of man. O’Blivion believe that human brain tumors caused by the interference of the videodrome signals are essentially a new organ that grows in the structure of mind. They believe that North America is gradually showing signs of weakness at a time when the rest of the world is growing stronger, and the soft pornographic video produced by Max is the result of this weak mental poison, a chronic corrosion of the public. Therefore, they intend to use the huge illusion machine of the film studio to achieve control and manipulation of the public. Therefore, "new flesh" group firmly believes that image world is more real than the inherent physical life. They do not fear the death of the flesh. Instead, they promote suicidal behavior in order to promote the growth of the "new flesh" in forms of image. Cronenberg set the end of Videodrome as Max’s self-dedication to the “new flesh”. He perhaps fled the power of videodrome, but transferred to the conscious illusion which is controlled by fake spectacles.

男主长得好合我胃口 不是很帅但又很帅 很喜欢开头的日式唯美破恩 感觉美国佬山猪吃不了细糠 但看到现在我觉得男主说的没错啊 社会确实需要给人们一个发泄阴暗面的缺口啊 soon all of us will have a special name 这句话预言得也太好了 但感觉男主好像只是一个正常人诶，就是那种只是因为看得到这部分的利益才接触这些内容的 女主好像是真的享受这些变态 好喜欢 就很新奇 终于不是一个正常人女主了 我超 我超！！！在做完爱之后用针给女主穿耳洞还舔上面的血也太涩了 感觉 这部片在讲一些很深的东西 过分的娱乐化造成了现实的腐坏 甚至深入到现实 那人们对网络上血腥的东西的喜爱就是不该的了吗，我们是在娱乐化这些话题吗？但是导演拍这部片子假如没有人们喜欢血腥的东西它甚至不能播出，他拍的所有B级片都不能播出，难道他只是想嘲讽观众顺便嘲讽下自己吗？ theres nothing real outside our perception of reality 这么 唯心的吗 感觉好像有点像表象的概念 为什么这些人会这么确定他们即将要进入一个新的时代，而且他们必须要改变？他们难道没有怀疑过吗？为什么他们觉得新时代一定是野蛮的？他们又为什么觉得人类一定要回归到原始本性？太涩了 男主肚子长批 感觉下一秒就是LJ omgomg导演怎么这么会啊 湿漉漉的手上拿着枪，却反被两条刺给刺穿 omg 导演怎么这么会。

后面一直没来得及写了，现在补上。

感觉柯南伯格好像很喜欢这种 人抛弃旧的无用肉体然后寻找新生命的概念，变蝇人也是这个概念，不过也有可能只是我想多了 毕竟我也只知道这两部 毕竟哪个导演不想拍一拍新人类这个主题呢 但是依旧 现在看的话感觉很多预言是成真了的 人类确实被一些无意义的庸俗的东西所吸引 在某种程度上改变了人类 那么已经接触到这些东西的人又该如何改变获得新生呢

说起来其实有点扯的地方 比如后面男主真的就好简单就进入废船的地区了诶 可换成如果是男主的幻想其实又没有太大问题 毕竟如果这是他脑内所希望的话 那其实他所需要的世界为他做出的改变会成真也并不奇怪了。

所以哪怕到电影播完我都依旧觉得男主还待在那间测试房里啊

「The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, it is part of the physical structure of the brain; whatever appears on it emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.」

「After all, there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there?」

「Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!」

The feeling after saw this one is weird and creepy but still for some point I felt part of me also felt excited and chill out when the procedure going,I think it’s like an anti Nazi Nazi film just like a evil mirror,both side of it is the evil face and you can never tell which is true and correct,beyond all those illusions is that what we really made of.

💆🏽‍♂️

The scarier it appears the softer it back point is .

把媒体对精神的影响具象化为幻觉乃至对肉体产生实质性的影响，最后影像取代肉体，充满想象力。麦克斯经营色情、暴力电视台满足人们，但他自己也迷上了员工哈伦截获的Videodrome纯暴力施虐片，结果出现一系列幻觉。（此前电视采访遇到的电话心理服务的Nicky也沉迷于受虐，和他一夜情扎针，烟头烫自己乳房，然后去拍Videodrome。而电视访谈上视频出现的欧布莱恩教授，他通过地下视频贩玛莎发现是V的制作者。）幻觉加强，他被告知欧已死，只留下一大堆影像让女儿操作，而教授本人也被影像控制。而V的制作者是廉价眼镜商康维斯，他分析M的幻觉，后来揭秘他是哈伦上司，哈伦潜伏给他看V来操纵他，他就像录像一样被play。他们想要对软弱的北美施加暴力现实，之前杀了O布莱恩，而麦克斯被操纵杀了合伙人，夺取电视台，结果杀欧布莱恩的女儿时被Nicky被杀的V影像化肉体，反过来不再被控制，不能被枪杀，杀了哈伦和康维斯，他们的肉体爆裂而开花。最后，他在影像中看到Nicky，她让他自杀成为真正的影像新肉体。影像，取代了认识，造就了幻觉，塑造了你。

一部怪异的影片，说实话有点没看明白，感觉有极强的象征意义。 提供色青保利的作品或是为了让它们只停留在虚拟世界，而大卫·柯南伯格似乎在这部片子里展示了媒体对现代人不可逆转的改造。Max在两股势力间被控制利用，不变的只有旧肉体被新肉体取代的进程。 总觉得这部片子有很明显的杏暗示。Max接收录像带的是腹部很像银狐的器官，我不知道这是否是一种导演心中对媒体快感之于人的解释。全剧设计的器械基本只有鞭子和枪，鞭子可以看作保利的象征，而枪（至少弗洛伊德会这么觉得）带有男性升至七的意味。这些呈现模式让死亡或被信息同化变得像一场扭曲的杏胶（虽然个人觉得极具刻板印象就是了。。。。。。。）。 想起腰乐队的“可我们的伤啊，要色青才能抚平”，“You are the video word made flesh.”或许对现在奶头乐盛行，某些词汇讳莫如深的时代里，《录像带》有一些预测，也有不可言说的意义。