Filmed by David Cronenberg crimes of the future, which opens on September 23, the camera approaches deformed bodies with an unhealthy curiosity. At best, to unexplained biological problems. It is an explicit and often brutal exploration of the bloody and downright disgusting. But still there is an elegance close to refined art in the parade of horrors that the director shows in sober chiaroscuro.
Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and Caprice (Lea Seydoux) are two artists who live and work together. But what suggests an emotional connection – non-existent in the film, except for them – gradually turns into something more grotesque.
Director crimes of the future he takes on a special freedom to reflect on morality, time, pain, and the pursuit of personal goals in the midst of chaos. There is no order in his film, but there is a search for power. Everything, while his characters struggle with circumstances that are beyond their control and that are at first inexplicable.
The monstrous, the beautiful, the artistic crimes of the future
Saul suffers from a very rare syndrome that allows him, in the most literal sense of the word, to create bodily appendages for no apparent benefit. This allows the stoic Caprice not only to analyze what is happening with the human body, but also to experiment to a certain extent. Slowly, clinical aberration becomes an art form. In a duel of pain and pleasure that involves what both she and Sol understand to be love.
crimes of the future, which moves between bodily horror and a near-perverse version of dystopia, is confusing. But at the same time, creates space for reflection on the organic as a form of expression of human identity. On the other hand, about fear as a specific issue. Can the body be a vehicle of horror and beauty?
It’s not an easy dilemma, and Cronenberg abandons his usual parade of grotesque monsters to answer it. Actually, he builds a space in which he needs to tell a story that could be a hypothesis of the dark extremes of art. Can living flesh, pulsing and causing direct repulsion, become a symbol of beauty?
Long way to new and scary spaces
However, in order to achieve something like this, the director does not give up his distinctive ability to create scenes that make hair stand on end. Almost the entire film takes place in the twilight of an unknown planet. Also among the unanswered questions about predestination are terrifying.
Is man subject to the image and likeness of his greatest horrors? To cover such a broad topic, the director turns to the allegorical. crimes of the future It has a mythological meaning. Not only because of the crime that triggers the events of the argument – a mother killing her son – but also because of the twisted way of showing horror.
crimes of the future and horrors hidden in the flesh
Cronenberg, a veteran of using twisted stories about human nature, finds in crimes of the future debugging your style. In addition, a certain connection between his speech and the type of sophisticated violence already announced in Fly in 1986 and existence in 1999. A look at the type of physical abuse that causes emotional events.. In the same time, creates a whole new sense of fear.
Of course, for the director who has been called a “monster maker” of all stripes and backgrounds, his latest work is a journey through his obsessions. From consumerism to the uprooting and downfall of the spirit of civilization. Everything figures prominently in this exploration of despair. More precisely, what can anyone do on the edge of the abyss. On this occasion, Cronenberg dispenses with the context or real motivations of his characters.
For the director, what appears in the background crimes of the future more important than what is shown. Which supports a visually impressive film filled with references to modern art and with a pronounced sense of the absurd. However, this is a horror film, with a thoughtful speech that surprises with its eloquence.
Terrible silence crimes of the future
In Cronenberg’s film, there is no bodily pain, and this is also a symbol. In the absence of restraints, Saul’s body seems to be the center of a silent and unbridled horror. But of course, a director doesn’t do physical scans just to prove he’s raw.
Actually, crimes of the future reflects on morality, which is becoming more and more flexible, fearful and blurred due to permissiveness.. There is a “danger zone” in Cronenberg’s vision of the consumer society, an insatiable perception of the collective appetite for horror. In addition, another turned into a general experiment of elements that become inexplicable.
Cronenberg, who is often accused of being excessive, disgusting and cruel, crimes of the future moral cruelty in the subtext. This is what sustains the film, which otherwise would be impossible to understand as a space for discussing more complex topics. A trend that 2022 horror cinema is taking to dark and unknown places with great conceptual value.
