A terrifying vision of what’s coming

Crime of the future: a terrifying vision of what’s to come

Movie review

Viewers can’t help but feel a strong morbid curiosity because it’s so strangely intimate and disturbingly alien, Tom Einalson says.

I was going to review Jurassic World: Dominion This week I noticed that it was so pulled out and repeated that I had a hard time coming up with something to say.David Cronenberg Future crimeIt has at least its substance, despite its more nervous and eerie side, but it may be eerie.

It was just a coincidence that I recently returned to Cronenberg before discovering it. Future crime It was planned to be released this year. His particular horror brand (often related to the human body) is primarily defined by horrifying special effects.

Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydou are the first science fiction horror films in Cronenberg since 1999, starring as a pair of performance artists. In the future of semi-dystopia, where pollution and climate collapse show a declining landscape, advances in biotechnology have left most of humanity without infectious diseases or a sensation of pain.

The human body, in true Kronenberg style, is the canvas for this vision of the future. It’s about extreme body modifications, new organs, surgery as an art, and because it’s a very intimate and disturbing alien, viewers can’t help but feel a strong morbid curiosity.

This movie asks a fairly simple but profound question. What if the look and feel of the future wasn’t the smooth, metallic materialism of the iPhone or the sophisticated mechanics of the Tesla Cybertruck? What if the future is far more human-shaped and human-shaped, as depicted in the movie? State-of-the-art technology (a wobbling chair that makes it easy to eat, a biomechanical bed, or a heartfelt direct autopsy station for artist HR Giger) is all disgustingly boney, plump, and alive. Looks like.

This movie certainly draws a lot of thought and asks a lot of questions. At the same time as it is about art, it is also keen to express itself as an art film.Severe environment, strength that can be conveyed only by appearance and words, and philosophical inclination mark Future crime It’s not just a movie about people undergoing surgery while awake.

But this also means that many characters speak as if they were reading an art exhibition pamphlet. Cronenberg wrote the script about 20 years ago and returned to the script only when his vision for it matured. One of the consequences is that a huge amount of philosophy and rewriting was incorporated into the script before it surpassed its status as an artistic art film about art.

Still, the strength of the body horror sequence is consistent with the attitude of those who are willing to submit to it. It’s scary to imagine a cinematic future, but the new trend in surgery as an art is not fundamentally questioned. Really, everyone seems to be completely and even unknowingly obsessed with it.

The “monster” in the movie is not only a mysteriously shaped body, but also a demented mind that makes them feel beautiful.Real horror Future crimeIn other words, it’s not only physical, it’s also cultural.

Future crime It’s a stuffy movie in the sense that it gradually closes the flight path from the dying world. It asks important questions about the need for art and the dominant spirit of mankind to the human body itself, not just the environment. It may be a bit full on its own, but it definitely beats watching another movie about dinosaurs jumping out of the park.

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