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eXistenZ Quotes

"Everybody's Playing It."

R 1999 · 1h 37m
68
Audience
68
Audience
10 quotes
The Nature of Pain and Desire
Ted It hurts. I think it's infected.
Allegra No, it's not infected. It's just excited. It wants action.
Ted But I really don't think I want action! Me, I mean. The bearer of the excited bio-port.
Questioning Reality in eXistenZ
Ted Allegra, what if we're not in the game anymore?
Uncertainty in a Game-Like Reality
Ted I don't like it here. I don't know what's going on. We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly undecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces we don't understand!
Allegra That sounds like my game, all right.
Ted It sounds like a game that's not gonna be easy to market.
Allegra But it's a game everybody is already playing.
Desire to Pause the Game
Ted I want to put the game on pause. The game can be paused, can't it? I mean, all games can be paused, right?
Questioning Victory in a Game
Allegra Have I won? Have I won the game? Have I won?
[after killing Ted]
The Allure of Virtual Reality
Taglines Play it. Live it. Kill for it.
Choice Between Engagement and Manipulation
Taglines Play Or Be Played
The Nature of Free Will in Reality
Ted Free will is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours.
Allegra It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.
Understanding the Purpose of the Game
Allegra You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game.
The Boundaries of Reality and Gaming
Taglines Where does reality stop. And the game begin?