Adam’s body is being violated by his boss and his corporate interests. There are constant shots of pieces of metal being jammed into him, open holes waiting to be filled with Sarif Industries augmentations, his very lifeblood being spilled. This asks the question: how much do our bosses control our bodies already?Īdam’s surgery is violent, bloody, and laden with invasive imagery. We later learn that David secretly altered Adam’s contract so that he would be able to transform him if he wanted. The doctors plead that the cybernetic prosthetics being demanded are excessive and could even kill Adam. His boss, David Sarif, coldly states, “he’s no good to me like this”, and has the doctors prep him for augmentation.
The scene then goes into issues of both consent and the commodification of Adam’s body. This symbolises the loss of his relationship, which further emasculates him. Adam dies on the table, his heart flatlining. Penetration is seen as a masculine act, but now instead of Adam having sex with Megan, he is penetrated by machinery. We see his heart beating inside his chest. Large metal spikes protrude through his body as he has visions of himself and Megan having sex. Credit: Eidos Montrealįirstly, Adam’s emasculation is cemented. This cinematic explores many themes that cyborg media deals with.ĭeus Ex: Human Revolution. The game’s introductory credits are then played over a cinematic of Adam’s reconstructive, life-changing surgery. These opening moments serve to immediately emasculate Adam as he fails at his job and is unable to defend himself, his girlfriend, or Sarif Industries against the augmented man. The cyborg assailant backhands Megan, presumably killing her, and he then walks over to Adam and shoots him in the head. The mercenary only drops Adam when his girlfriend, Dr Megan Reed, throws acid in the attacker’s face.
Adam limply raises his gun, but his foe knocks it out his hands and raises him in the air by the throat. One of the mercs throws him through a computer screen and embeds him in machinery, glass protruding from his hands.
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