I think eXistenZ is the perfect example of a biopunk movie. But would you also consider it to be cyberpunk? The majority of the movie takes place inside a virtual reality video game but there actually aren’t many cyberpunk visuals. And while it does rely on new technology to access this virtual world, that technology is primarily biological.

This is the best trailer I could find but it’s pretty low quality. You can watch it on Pluto or kanopy if you’ve never seen it.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    79 months ago

    How much do we see that’s “real” anyways?

    I thought it was ambiguous if we ever saw any layer that was real, but if they had fully realistic VR, to the point you honestly can’t tell if it’s real…

    The main level reality has got to be pretty cyberpunk. Even if in the “games” the tech was organic, that doesn’t mean the real tech is as well