Crimes of the Future (2022) Movie Review | David Cronenberg
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- This is my Spoiler Free Crimes of the Future (2022) Movie Review, directed by David Cronenberg, and I need your thoughts below. Be sure to explain your thoughts on the ending. What is your Crimes of the Future Review or Reaction?
Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.
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Time Codes:
Story and Rating - 0:00
The Incredible Cast - 0:48
Body Horror and Effects - 2:37
Visuals Soar Over Story - 4:44
Finding Satisfaction - 6:23
Worth The Risk - 7:10
Final Thoughts - 7:47
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What is Cronenberg's BEST film??
Excited for this one?
My favorite David Cronenberg film is The Fly (1986).
his version of the fly
VIDEODROME
IMHO it's the Fly (1986), and yeah, I'm a sadistic gore-hound, so I think this will be my cup of tea lol
The Fly.
I agree with you. emotionally this film was dry. But philosophically it had a lot to say. Slow burn of a movie. Very grotesque. Great review as always man.
Not dry just could of been a little bit more better
Ok then out of curiosity, what did this movie have to say philosophically wise because my take is that it was only grotesque, and celebrated self-harm. Honest question
@@Jesse-ch4iu yeah it was just bad. Anyone who claims this movie has some kind of philosophical meaning is just full of it. It's like when people make terrible "art" and say that if you don't like it it's just because you can't understand it. Oh and it all led up to a pedo scene at the end
So in conclusion, this movie is basically everything you would expect from a David Cronenberg movie atleast visually and I love it
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I expected to feel a bit more emotionally, but visually, exactly what I expected!
Without the heart. Fly was many things....emotional was one of them
I was incredibly disappointed with this.. I love art house film and cronenberg but this felt very incomplete to me..
Going to see it Sunday and have watched some of his films leading up to it. Cronenberg is the body horror master, so let's see what grotesque things he's conjured up with this film!
Wow,people walking out of a horror movie,the last time I experienced that was Glitter,with Maria Carey,it was a truly horrifying movie
I was recently in packed theaters for Men and The Northman and quite a few people walked out of both.
Thanks for doing this! Just came from the theater, and I’m still processing Cronenberg’s take on humans’ unexpectedly rapid evolution, along with our need for new ways to entertain ourselves. Special shout out to Lèa Seydoux, who I thought was just great.
I’d be curious to see where you place this film in a Cronenberg Tier List. The Fly remains my favorite of his body horror films, with A History of Violence also such a great watch.
Yep. I never understood people walking out of a film festival. And even more so from a film everyone knows will be pushing boundaries. Why did you assisted? Why??
I kinda liked how things didn't resolve at all in the end, imo it fit perfectly with the chaotic and constantly escalating story
The thing about this film is that the body horror makes sense with those concept that’s personally why i didn’t find it as shocking. Maybe shocking in a way that wow we make anything for and out of art and pleasure. I loved it. Watching the story had me thinking of the title and it made so much sense somuch
This movie looks like it was shot in 2002 but not in a bad way lol. This feels like a movie that would have a trailer that played before pitch black .
This movie just flew by I absolutely loved it, but despite my love I still felt the same yearning for tying it up and finishing it more thoroughly. It sounds cheesy but I would love to see a conclusion to it in a sequel to see where it all went.
A couple walked out of the showing I saw too, it was kinda funny. It was at the halfway point & it made me wonder if they knew what they were in for or thought it was going to be the typical modern “horror” or gross out splatterfilm. I thought this was classic Cronenberg!
The movie is a snoozer. I love the concept but the story goes no where.
Dead ringers, cosmopolis, the list goes on and on, cronenberg - you should always know what you're getting into it with his films...
For some reason that scene in Ambulance with the spleen bursting really got to me. How would you compare this movie’s “surgery” to Ambulances and do you think it would affect me as much?
This is much crazier!
@@AustinBurke Okay. Thank you!
Went to see it 2 days ago and never had people leave a movie during it's runtime, but this time half of the theater walked out. Then I read the day after that the duration of the movie was 63 minutes and I couldn't believe it, I refused to believe it, it felt like it was a 2 hour movie. I'm still not sure what to think of it.
It’s an hour and 47 minutes
@@brandih9802 you are right! where on earth have I read that it was just 63 minutes long...
i felt the urge to walk out.. bacause i was bored
Yeah, the fact that some father allowed this to happen to their child was really out there and unbelievable for me. I can’t believe any father would want to let third child be a subject maybe for science but not so much for art.
I liked this movie. I thought the performances were good. I don’t think it is a bad movie. I do think it is a weird movie. It seemed like something out of the Twilight Zone.
I wasn’t wild about it overall, kinda boring and had a sterile odor to it. But from a gore/horror perspective I thought it was tame, particularly for Cronenberg. The Evil Dead remake would make those walkouts go insane apparently.
My thoughts on "Crimes" is more of a deep-dive into the metaphorical meanings within Cronenberg's on-the-nose, satirical (albeit horrific) and sometimes humorous view of modern-day technology (ex: eating chair, sleeping bed, autopsy bed), exhibitionism and voyeurism (ex: Saul, Caprice, Timlin, two women with drills), pop culture (ex: Klinik/Ear Man, others), celebrity status (Saul and Caprice), and ultimately the "plastic" society that we have become (ex: plastic eaters, non-plastic eaters, and those "evolving" into eating plastic). There are also the "policing agencies" (Cope, Wippet, Timlin) that try to regulate and/or terminate humanities permanent decline into a meaningless existence of seeking out ever-greater, "shocking" sensualities (ex: government's attempts to regulate social media and the moral decline of society).
The story clearly identifies "plastic" as the synthetic, cheap, easily consumed and digested content in social media (I think of "Barbie Girl" by Aqua, Madonna's "Material Girl"). Each of the main characters is participating in the so-called "art" in some way with a brief glimpse of a "normal person" who dies from eating "plastic".
The boy Brecken, from the outset, has already "evolved" into a full plastic eater. The mother, representing parents of young "social media artists" today, smothers him. This represents the consequences of parents allowing their children to consume and produce cheap, easy to consume exhibitionism eventually leading them to be killed by it (ex: kids being killed by their stalkers, older men being fans of young girls) as if the parent was the actual murderer.
Through the entire story, the main character Saul resists "evolving" into a plastic eater (ex: "tumor-like organs" that grow inside him = the cancers of society) using alien-looking tech just to eat and sleep (Ex: cpap, hospital surgical devices, feeding tubes, mechanised beds etc). Finally, after just giving in to "evolving" into a plastic eater does he find complete contentment and peace. However, never does he realize that his "painless" exhibitionism is the very cause of his morphing into a plastic eater; he's now desensitised to it all.
Along the way, we also meet two woman voyeurists who drill holes into people's heads representing the mindless, intellegence draining people of CZcams Channels and pornography; they create content that displays to everyone their so-called "inner beauty" but is secretely "horrific" for us to watch, and we can't turn our eyes away (ex: Adrienne, Ear Man, zipper device, etc.). In addition, Ear Man (Klinik) demonstrates how even the hippocritical Producer of his "Art" (ex: the music and entertainment industry) can be the very one who exploits the financial successes but joins the "popular" view of hating it (ex: anonymous likes, dislikes, etc.).
There are many more metaphorical references throughout the story and Cronenberg uses the genre as a warning of the future "horrors" of becoming "Plastic Eaters". Cronenberg asks us If we are disgusted by what we are watching and thus why are we not disgusted by what we "consume" in today's media? He suggests that if we are not disgusted by what we're watching, we're already a plastic eater. Indeed, ultimately society will become senseless, meaningless, painless, completely devoid of the characteristics that make us human if we don't stop eating plastic both metaphorically (ex: social media, empty entertainment, exhibitionism, voyeurism, pop culture, celebrity status, etc.) and physically (ex: oceans being full of plastic: fish eat it, we eat the fish). Neither has any nutritional value and can kill us metaphorically, physically, spiritually, and socially.
this movie had no nutritional value
Man this film was such a drag to watch. There are slow Burns then there is this.
Literally with 30 minutes left I asked myself if there was even a point to the movie.
Sometimes it's about the journey not the destination but yeah... Even that was a stretch.
Visually it's impressive but story wise and acting wise, very very very disappointed.
Fan of some David Cronenberg films. I wouldn’t call him a genius but he’s a filmmaker that at the very least puts out something unique and different. Excited to see how I’ll feel about his new body horror film
watch"crash" his movie about people getting turned on by car crashes.
Crash ... classic!!
Great review Austin, but personally I loved the movie - just one scene, where hand-drills are used, felt cheap and a bit campy and lowered the tone of what was a very intelligent and subtle film. I had just finished a week of huge disappointments - Robert Egger's "The Northman" was a massive let down after the breathtaking creativity of his first two films, and "The Grey Man" dashed every hope I had for cinema's future on the rocks - so I went into Crimes of the Future pretty depressed - but came out buzzing with excitement and my faith in cinema restored! It's just kind of sad that the most exciting film I have seen this year comes from a man at the end of his career. The theme of weird performance art was also the main theme of my other favourite film this year - Peter Strickland's eccentric masterwork "Flux Gourmet".
I went into this movie knowing nothing and I was so shook. I’ll never get those visuals out of my head
I wonder, Austin, which other Cronenberg films have you seen?
😊 People walking out of the theater is like a badge of honor at this point, 😊 it's like a rating of its own 😊 made me want to watch the movie even more
Badge= Trash
😊 Pick 😊 me 😊
Yeah, I think the movie needed to be like an hour longer, at least. There's a lot in it that you're expected to accept without enough world/character building.
You actually think it was grotesque I felt it was very tame what was disturbing for you, I enjoyed the world and the performances but not the horror and the terror aspects of this
I thought it was super tame.. I felt like it could of been a hard PG-13 if they just removed the nudity and maybe 1 other scene. The only thing that got under my skin a little was the opening scene.
Good review 👏...Loved how this movie ended with an open conclusion left to the beholder. An explanation or sequence would ruin the irony in the end, which is the center of the plot🖤. Yes, agree mainly a philosophical movie rather than "horror", lots of symbolism, 😅 some unexpected humor and grotesque & shocking imagery 🖤... interesting characters who didn't develop were just part of the story but not the center I suppose 🤷🏽♀️like life. I loved it, but a friend had fallen asleep and found it boring and just crazy😂
I'll skip it. While Cronenberg is a talented filmmaker, his movies like Dead Ringers can make me almost physical ill. Too disturbing for me.
I will give you the practical effects, they were really amazing and they were really looked real.
loved the movie, it was brilliant..
Yup, this movie left me wanting so much more out of the concept
It felt like the tease of something bigger
100% from me. It's beautiful, thought-provoking and visionary: the line between human body and technology is becoming blurrier, who knows what the future brings?
I can see this movie turning into a series.
I’ve always felt Cronenberg movies are dry emotionally and that detachment is what’s most freighting.
I liked the idea of this movie and the casting is great. But its underdeveloped. It feels incomplete, I really could not understand the ending or at least make no sense of it. And that is a surprise because of all the movies I have seen of Cronenberg, there is an ending. There are essentially 2 tracks of this movie but they do not converge and end as I had hoped they would.
Cronenberg is master of visceral horror and this is true to his style. It has a very "weird" concept and emphasis is on the visuals. Like the show not tell style which is very Cronenberg. And for whatever it is Cronenberg does show his skills of artistically narrating extreme stories. But it does not add to much. The settings are great, the cast is great. Vigo Mortensen. Lea Seydoux Kristen Stewart and Scott Speedman are very efficient. Though I would have liked to see more of Stewart, both in terms of acting and figure.
In fact all the actors are good. But as I mentioned the plot has a sense of incompleteness. There are continuity issues, and ending is unresolved which is very unlike Cronenberg. He usually gives you a firm ending. I give Crimes of Future a 6.5. It has an interesting concept and very engaging narrative. I mean an hour and 40 minutes just flew by. And I wanted more of it. I really wanted to see where the triangle of Mortensen, Seydoux and Stewart went. And a little more exposure by Stewart. She is fully dressed in the movie. This could have been the top 10 movies of the year for me if developed properly.
That’s what I couldn’t understand in the movie. There are people that are squeamish and in the movie they did this as performance heart I would think would there be some people in the audience that got sick? But I guess the audience was filled with members that were used to this sort of thing.
Vikram review?
Austin, I’ve been messaging you for months now, can you please stop sleeping with my wife? It’s getting annoying now. Thanks
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It’s Morbin’ Time
I was surprised that the nude child was legal in a movie. Usually that is considered child pornography and that is illegal under any circumstances, even if the child used in the movie is not real. In some countries the director could be jailed for that.
That film sounds like it has the true definition of Bioshock.
Vikram hits the theatre, Indian action thriller, maybe the best this year, do watch it if available
Bro you gotta watch the new Tamil movie Vikram!
You didn't understand the evolutionary, environmental, and political dimensions of the story. You got distracted by the idea of surgery as sex, which is totally secondary
No I got it. Just didn’t find it all that interesting.
@@AustinBurke You hide it pretty well though
I turned it off after the first "performance". It was to quirky for the sake of being out there. Without the substance or intrigue that most out there type movies have.
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There’s no reason to walk out wasn’t even bad.
I agree
It wasn't that shocking... it was pretty shocking though 😂
90% of the movie is just conversation between 2 people. the rest is, people cutting with scalpel. what a crap.
What elements are missing? I’m not following? People talking is automatically bad? Lmao
I thought this movie was gonna be right up my alley but no. This movie is sloooow and kinda boring. I wanted to like it bc of the concept. If i’m being honest I made it 1 hour plus before turning it off. If you have absolutely nothing else to watch or do go for it. But my score is 2/5.
I see 2.5 stars on Prime for this movie.
People were walking out because it was boring. Don’t make it sound like it was because it was too gory.
People at the festival came out and said because it was “too much”
Not my words. Theirs.
It can be both
👍🏼👍🏼
Surgery is the new sex lol.
99% of the movie going audience going to see Top Gun Maverick and Jurassic Park Dominion 1% going to see this movie 🎥 Crime's of the Future Never thought I would say it But 🤔 let's hear it for the 1% 👏😃 😁👍
I thought it was dope
It isn't really that bloody considering all the evisceration. I didn' t read that much sex in it. Gorno for it's own sake. Yawn.
This is a very dry movie that tries to say a lot and doesn’t get the point across in a very good way. I’m a fan of Cronenburg and was very excited for this and was absolutely let down. There’s artsy, then there’s artsy that does nothing with its plot. That’s this movie. 4/10.
Waste of time
Which is more grotesque - Men or this movie? As for the ending, is it like Everything Everywhere? Hahaha…. That is disappointing. I hate when the ending seems incomplete…
Men is easily more grotesque, but this is certainly graphic in its own right. I hated Men though and found the world-building of this film far superior in every way.
This movie was unbelievably boring and the story was awful. Did not work for me.
PURE UNADULTERATED CRONENBERG
Heard it’s absolute dog shit, and puts you to sleep.
Dog shit puts you to sleep? Well, whatever works...
I had to say I watched this at the cinema, or should I say, tried to watch it yesterday. This movie is really, really bad. The movie gives no context for anything. “Synthetic environment” and “human evolution” don’t match up with reality and the movie gives no explanation for anything.
Seriously don’t waste your time with this garbage movie. It seems just like an excuse to gross you out
Simple minds are easily entertained.
it was boring