Crimes of the Future - Movie Review
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2022
- David Cronenberg is back, and this time goes back to some body horror roots, in the spirit of some of his movies like Videodrome, Crash and Existenz.
The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, where people don't feel the usual pain, and is centered around celebrity avant garde artists who remove organs they can grow.
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I will never forget exiting the theatre after a screening of Dead Ringers. There are not many films that have disturbed me as much as this one. But that is what distinguishes a Cronenberg film from any other director. He creates these cinematic worlds that resemble our own but there is something not quite right. He eases you into this world, allows them to lower your defences, and then they just get progressively stranger as the story moves forward. He obliterates your sense of time. Since his films seldom have conventional stories one cannot getting their barring where they are at any point. It's been a long time since I've enjoyed a Cronenberg film. Over the last twenty years or more his films didn't stand up to his early years. This seems like a return to his body horror origins. I'm glad he decided against retiring. There are not many directors working nowadays that are as original as him. I can't wait to see it.
I'm so excited to see this. I've been on a far-longer-term-than-I-had-intended mission to introduce my girlfriend to the works of Cronenberg. We started with Crash and got progressively weirder, until near the end I'd planned for us to do Naked Lunch and Videodrome. Not every film incidentally (I've not seen them all myself anyway), just a hand-picked selection of my favourites.
Anyway, the point of all that was to say that the next on our list is Dead Ringers. I agree with what you say about it; it's very disturbing.
I think, having watched the trailer a load of times, Crimes of the Future, aesthetically puts me in mind of Dead Ringers the most. It could just be that some medical tools in it vaguely resemble the "gynaecological devices for operating on mutant women", though
Dead Ringers is the only film where I actually said "what the f@ck" out load several times while watching it. Cronenberg is one of a kind for sure.
after seeing clips of this movie I'm convinced David Cronenberg could make a good Hellraiser reboot.
@@jordanhunter366 but he isn’t
@@jordanhunter366 I don’t even know if Cronenberg would be a good choice. Sure he’d be good at the body horror aspects near the end where Tetsuo turns into a giant flesh monster and kills Kaori but that’s only like 5 minutes. There’s way more to Akira than body horror.
I think anyone can make a better one than the last 4.
🤯
Don’t think he would want to
This sounds like the Cronenberg-iest Cronenberg film that ever Cronenberged.
Strange coincidence: I'm having Cronenbergs for dinner.
It may satire avant-garde art but Cronenberg has arguably been the most accessible form of avant-garde art the masses consume
and we love him for it
My main gripe with this movie is the over-abundance of boring exposition dialogue.
I guess David forgot about "show don't tell" during his eight year break.
... Or more likely, he just didn't have the budget to show all the cool things his characters talk about.
Still worth a watch. Though if you've never seen a Cronenberg film before, I would suggest "The Fly" or "Videodrome" first. ("Naked Lunch" is my favourite)
Incidently, his son Brandon Cronenberg also makes movies. Definitely check out "Possessor".
I can't wait. Growing up watching Cronenberg movies have damaged my sexuality.....in a good way.
Thanks for this. I loved it and every review i've seen until yours bashes it. Much like people who don't get Lynch, obviously the "Normies" need to stay away from Cronenberg films. They just don't get it and never will. You do and i appreciate that. Like you though, the film ended and and i was like "Oh guess it's time to get off the ride now".
Just the feel good family movie we need now with all the crap going on in the world.
lmao
Big Fan of your work. Please do the review of these following movies :-
1. Accident Man (2018)
2. Get Carter (2000)
3. Haywire (2011)
4. The Girl next door (2004)
5. Night Hunter (2018)
6. Street Kings (2008)
7. Last seen alive (2022)
8. Henry's Crime (2010)
9. Hitman (2007)
Never was a fan of Cronenberg, but it's nice to see he hasn't lost his stride.
I drove 40 miles to see this. I liked it, though I do think it left some characters hanging. That ending just kind of comes up on you. I guess I was just looking for a resolution to Kristen Stewart‘s character after that great scene with Viggo.
I saw it too, just an hour ago. I was disappointed by the ending at first, but when i was driving back home i think i realized what the movie was about. I think its about how plastic is changing our bodies in real life, how our horomones are changing cuz of plastic, and in this fictional future, some people are embracing the change or denying the change (like the nu vice cop with the slight lump in his abdomen). I think this is what the film is about, do you think so?
Here is the thing, I could never really get into Cronenburg's scifi body horror. I found them interesting but not my thing. Too "arthouse" in my opinion. But Dead Zone, History of Violence, and Easten Promises were my favorites. I guess you could say I prefer his psychological approach rather than his gore work.
The Fly is his best!
I guess this movie just didn't click for me? The only reason I didn't walk out of the movie is because after they cut up the kid there was 10 minutes left. It had that "trying too hard" feel to me, be it the everything is dirty look, the chair-made-of-alien-parts-no-one-would-ever-design design, to the "This movie was lit by night lights" along with everything in between. Felt more like body and less like horror. Glad some folks appreciate it as I do like Cronenberg's strange ideas.
I had a problem following the film. There were so many plot points and scenes that were introduced and then never paid off or followed through with and then the movie just ends. That being said. I admire the film for just how fucked up it is and what crazy image it would show me next
That's disappointing to hear. Fucked up-ness is fine but yeah, in and of itself doth not a good movie maketh.
The clips remind me of Dead Ringers, The Naked Lunch and Crash so I guess the film will be a combo.
I was shocked how some of the imagery got "drilled" into my head!
Sounds like that Japanese film Splatter: Naked Blood.
I'd rank this along with Crash, Videodrome, and The Fly as one of Cronenberg's best films. As a fan of art, sex, and horror, this movie was tailor-made for me! Grade A!
Léa Seydoux is gorgeous and I would love to see another Viggo movie. However, I'm going to give this one a miss.
I like a Viggo now and then. Good casting for an artsy-fartsy and it sounds like his character in this is utterly committed to the artsy *and* the fartsy.
Sounds pretty strong for what it is going for. Probably not a movie for me so I'll skip it. But sounds like a total win for the right audience.
I don't really see how immortality makes sex any less fun.
Boredom more than anything. Just look at how current societies that have more free time, not being constantly ground down by capitalism, and access to medical care are with sexual expression. They are constantly trying new things to the point there are medical boards that have arisen to address sex toy safety. Given enough time anything becomes mundane.
They're not immortal. Just can't feel pain or get disease. There's a actual condition where people can't feel pain, I forget what it's called, and no, alcohol isn't involved.
@@JnEricsonx And they constantly get hurt since they can't tell when something is too hot or whatever.
saw it - its a must see for weirdness - see it at the theatre to get the full effect
And you notice it was all practical.
Intriguing
Well, after 3:12 I now want a Cronenberg remake of Carnosaur so thanks for that.
SICK!
This was a mixed film for me overall, but it's definately the most "Cronenberg-esque" movie Cronenberg has made this century. "Surgery is the new sex" pretty much sums up his entire career in sentence.
Check out The Valet
I can't seem to follow it I started it over 3 times
Vikram review?
Is this safe to watch with my mom?
definitely not lol
Good luck with that
Not personally interested in seeing this, but it IS refreshing to see a movie come out in 2022 that isn't another Disney flick, another remake, or another adaptation of something.
To be nitpicky, the title is a re-use of a title of a short Cronenberg did at the very beginning of his career... So in some sense... It's technically an in name only remake..
Yes, the plot is not at all the same, but I think it's a curious aspect of the film I have yet to experience.
Pretty good, needs more dinosaurs.
To me it only worked a little bit as a satire of the art world but mostly it just felt as Cronenberg was doing a bad self-parody. I found the world building severely lacking. I couldnt form any kind of connection to the characters or to the world. Mortensen seemed to be sleepwalking. Seydoux was laugh out loud bad. I was simply just bored out of my mind. So much that I even cosidered leaving. Probably would have if it would've been longer. The movie needed more of what ever Stewart and the two technician characters were doing!
the whole thing reminded me of the weird indie films coming out of Canada in the 90's. I was very into it
The closest theater is 2 hours away playing this, i hope it comes closer to me cause i wanna see a Cronenberg film finally on the big screan.
I am not accepting this as my future.
David should have written and directed repo men
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Yeah, Cronenberg is a style director, and that style isn't for me.
We care why?
Um.....this movie was....what. Seriously, I love Scanners but was bored AF by this. And shocking? Bitch please. I will admit the context of the end scene was shocking, but not for the reasons you think.
The movie makes completely no sense.
107 minutes of my life lost in the theater with no way of getting them back. Please don't be like me.
Glad to see more Cronenberg weirdness.
I aboustley loved it!
I loved it 9/10
Seriously…what in the actual fuck is wrong with people
Do you mean with the people who made the movie 🎥 or the people who want to watch it ? 🤔🤨
all the sin . the devil is working over time
I hope that he got KNB back to do the effects.
The premise seems to make NO sense.
People can't feel pain, so surgery turns into sex?? Does the movie explain pain just went away, or actually transformed into a pleasure sensation? Without that it just doesn't make sense, at all.
There are LOTS of things I do which don't hurt me, but I also get NO sexual thrill from. I mean, I got a haircut the other day, and it didn't hurt at all, but I also got NO orgasm from it.
Plus, even without the pain one must KNOW they are mutilating themselves for no reason, and even having things removed without reason, which CAN kill you, making them a whole population of complete psychopaths!
PLEASE just make movies with sense again.
Here is the thing about Cronenburg, he style of storytelling is more reaction based. It designed to provoke an emotional response. You can't really understand his logic. To give an example, Michael Ironside said in an interview that Cronenburg told him about this dream he constantly has. It's in a desert with a mantis eating parts of it body, regurgitating, and then eating itself again. That shows how "out there" he really is. Also the guy has very weird concept of sex and penetration. You could almost interpret it as a fear of sex.
I saw it last night, and it definitely makes sense. I think that with more arty allegorical movies getting into the themes is hard to do without spoiling the experience. Cronenberg does kind of throw you into the deep end of his ideas here. Yes, there is a bit of talk in the film about surgery being the new sex, and it's a pithy slogan to market towards those who dig some quirky edgy cinema. That's kind of a surface-level reduction of the movie. It's also about mortality, intimacy, conditioning, artifice, evolution, aging, identity, transformation, technology - all themes Cronenberg has worked in throughout his career. Yet this one has a distinct character, and is a pretty pure distillation of them.
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@@ajclements4627 You still get what we here in Germany call a "Teilnehmerurkunde"!
I absolutely hated this. There’s a big issue with it as well. If surgery is sexual and that’s an accepted norm a certain scene is hugely wrong! Or is it designed to be transgressive.
Also I found the dialogue revolves around two points and the reiteration of those points by every character.
And it was a rip off of Bladerunner
sounds likedisgustinng trash
Body Horror Noir, Just suffers from too many ideas all at once.
movie looks SO DUMB 👎
Surprised you havnt done eXistenZ yet to be honest 😯
I'd love to see the Snob do a double episode of "Videodrome" and "eXistenZ" together.