Videodrome's Most Confusing Moments Explained - /Film
2024年2月17日 · The Cathode Ray Mission takes a vastly different approach to the same problem and instead reaches out to individuals on the fringes of civilization — those most likely to seek out the...
We Never Leave That Room: A Watcher’s Guide to Videodrome
2022年7月27日 · Videodrome is a television signal created by Professor O’Blivion and his organization of liberal intelligentsia, the Cathode-Ray Mission, and is designed to generate brain tumors in those dosed by the signal.
Long live the new flesh: reflections on Videodrome (1983)
2018年6月3日 · Run by Dr. O’Blivion’s daughter, Bianca, the Cathode Ray Mission appears to be a cultic organization dedicated to exposing people to unqualified media effects – in order to “help patch them back into the world’s mixing board.”
Videodrome (1983) - Plot - IMDb
Max Renn tracks down O'Blivion's office to The Cathode Ray Mission, a mission where homeless individuals are provided food, shelter, and clothing, and encouraged to engage in marathon sessions of television viewing.
Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome At 40 | The Quietus
2023年2月24日 · Running a Catholic-style inner-city project called the Cathode Ray Mission, O’Blivion and his daughter Bianca decide that the best way to help homeless people get reintegrated back into society is through television exposure.
Medium Cruel: Reflections on Videodrome - The Criterion …
2010年12月7日 · Among these was the scene of Max Renn stalking Bianca O’Blivion through the Cathode Ray Mission with his flesh gun (which actor James Woods affectionately dubbed “the pooperoo”). Bianca rushes behind a paper screen partition in …
Videodrome (1983) - Classic-Horror.com
2008年3月20日 · The Cathode Ray Mission shows transients television in order to “patch them back into society's mixing board”; the implication is that, to progress in society, people need technology. People need the Videodrome cancer that infects them to survive; it's not just a disease, it's the next level of humanity, the next step in evolution.
Videodrome (1983): Synopsis & Analysis - Jotted Lines
2020年2月12日 · Videodrome tells the story of Max Renn (Woods), the sleazy programmer of a soft-core television channel who discovers a mysterious signal broadcasting a snuff TV show called ‘Videodrome’. Increasingly obsessed with tracing the source of the rogue signal, Max crosses paths with media philosophy guru, Professor Brian O’Blivion (Creley) and ...
Videodrome - The Canadian Encyclopedia
2009年9月23日 · From Videodrome's underground airwaves to the Cathode Ray Mission's spiritual (electronic) recharge of derelicts in private TV cubicles, David CRONENBERG 's humour is at its best in this serious, sensuous and disturbing work.
VIDEODROME: Its Prescience Still Reaches Beyond The Screen
2020年7月20日 · A war is waged over control of the Videodrome signal between O’Blivion’s camp of technological utopianists, the Cathode Ray Tube Mission, and an international eyewear corporation who also dabble in weapons manufacturing, Spectacular Optical; a mind-controlled Max flips sides multiple times in the film, and the whole convoluted farce ...