Films about: avatars, VR, techno-prosthetics and abandoned bodies

[Amnesiac]

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[Dead & Messed Up]

I'm trying to compile a good list of films that deal with any of these topics.

For instance, drawing from a recent example, Surrogates clearly dealt with the idea of demoting, or outright discarding, the human body. What other films scrutinize the 'body as baggage' mentality? Films that intelligently (or even unintelligently) deal with the impulse to abandon the body and move onto technological pastures. That is, either through life by proxy (i.e., Avatar and Surrogates) or otherwise.

Rep for any good suggestions.

An obvious one is 2001, with humanity's abandonment of the traditional form and the emergence of a spiritual "rebirth."

Videodrome doesn't seek the extermination of the human body, but rather a significant "updating" or "renewal" of the human body.

The Matrix suggests that real living takes place in a virtual existence, with the human body left behind in the mundanity of actual life.

[Spinal]

Tron?

[dreamdead]

Assayas' demonlover might be an inspired choice with regard to virtual reality and how multinational companies derive so much money off of the exploitation of porn and erotica, ultimately placing our heroine [

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[Raiders]

I haven't seen it, but my sci-fi hound father in law loves Douglas Trumbull's Brainstorm which also happens to be Natalie Wood's last film.

[Spinal]

No technological aspect, but otherwise ... Cyrano.

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Lawnmower Man (human mind ascends to VR completely)... Virtuosity (AI gains physical body)... Being John Malkovich (inhabiting another person's mind and controlling their body)... 6th Day (transfer of a deceased person's mind into a new cloned grown human body)...etc. etc. - it was a rather popular subject in recent years.

[trotchky]

metropolis

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Dollhouse is based on the concept that someone came up with the technology that can store human consciousness onto a computer drive, transfer it into a different body, "wipe" a body off all signs of personality, and "imprint" it with another one, or even a construct pieced together from various human traits and experiences.