David Cronenberg's 1999 film "eXistenZ" was released only a month after Wachowski Starship's groundbreaking blockbuster "The Matrix," so those who saw it immediately noticed the thematic similarities. Both films are about elaborate simulated video game-like environments, each overseen by a shadowy cabal of mysterious conspirators. In "The Matrix," it was revealed that what we perceive as the real world was actually an elaborate electronic simulation, pumped directly into our brains by a global machine network. The machines used entombed, barely-alive human bodies as a power source, you see, requiring a Matrix to keep our minds occupied. The main characters of the film had found a way to escape the simulation and fight the machines in the real world, a distant future wherein Earth had becom

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