The film created by Cronenburg in 1982, is a piece in which the age of digitalism in every day life is analysed. Looking into the distance between the real and the virtual, the film arguably stating the distance between the two, is ever shrinking.
In the film James Woods who plays a cable tv operater named Max Renn, grapples with the Virtual reality esque project of videodrome, mixing sex and violence to create a desired state of mind and reality, with distrubring consequences.
In my view the film set to view the progressive worry that the digital world is extending into the real world to achieve things deemed impossible in reality.
Sort of a social commentary locating the issue that the desire to live like individuals do within the digital world, creates a cyberspace...a sort of mediated sphere where individualism is lost and you become part of the system.
In the film this can be seen where Max enters the television set, thus entering the digital cyberspace.
"Death to Videodrome, long live the new flesh" is the final statement of the film, in my view i beleive this to be the part in the film where the realisation of the empowering and disturbingly controlling Videodrome (and what videodrome represents) is actualised, and long live the new flesh may relate to the new flesh in which develops on his arm, to fight the grip of videodrome. Making a point that the new human flesh will prevail over the growing cyberism of the human body.
