Crimes of the Future (2022)

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   PretentiousHip91

   Funny how the set design is technically super cheap in this, using only 3-4 locations. However, it's one of the few movies depicting a dystopian world that actually looks dystopian as hell.
   
   One of his best. 1 year 10 months ago
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   Siskoid

   David Cronenberg returns to squishy sci-fi horror with Crimes of the Future, but while there are a lot of interesting ideas, it also plays like a Greatest Hits album. Surgery as sex sits somewhere between Crash and Dead Ringers, the weird bio-tech comes from Naked Lunch, Existenz and Videodrome, and I know this is hardly fair, but it reminded me more of his son Brandon's films (Antiviral and Possessor) which were, on the whole, more intriguing. In a future where humanity starts to evolve, in particular losing its sense of pain and proclivity for infection, Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seyoux are performance artists, the former growing new organs inside him, the latter tattooing and cutting them out in public. They get embroiled in a conspiracy to force/repress evolution, and you can well imagine fascist politics trying to control people's bodies even when change is a natural occurrence. Evolution as crime. If you want to see this as a parable for trans and reproductive rights, you can, but I don't think Cronenberg really seals the deal. On anything. There are too many competing ideas, most of them never paying off, that in the end, it's an intellectual meditation on the core idea of human evolution that doesn't metastasize into a clear enough story. 1 year 10 months ago
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   Arkantos

   Overall it’s a cromulent film, one that I’d rank squarely in the middle tier of his output. Thematically and stylistically this film harkens back to some of his earlier works, what immediately comes to mind are eXistenZ, Videodrome, and Crash. The body horror scenes did have me averting my eyes at some points, though it’s not as gory as you might first suspect. This film also smartly knew just how long it needed to be, didn’t feel like it dragged much at any point. 1 year 10 months ago

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