Crimes Of The Future Ending Explained (In Detail)
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Crimes of the Future.
Crimes of the Future ending explained. Written and directed by David Cronenberg, the film is his first time behind the camera since 2014. Crimes of the Future debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May before releasing in U.S. theaters on June 3. The body horror film has had various reactions from critics and viewers alike, but it’s clear the film had an effect regardless.
Crimes of the Future begins with a very grim prologue: Djuna, irked by her plastic-eating son, smothers him with a pillow before calling her ex-husband to collect his body. This scene sets the stage for the remainder of the film, one that is filled with various body horrors and the fractured state of the human population as the next stage of evolution sets in. Cronenberg’s story includes a variety of characters, but its central focus is on Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), who is a performance artist and an undercover agent working with Detective Cope. His story ends in moral ambiguity as he starts to realize there is a lot more going on that he was previously uninvolved with, but can no longer shake off.
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Crimes of the Future’s ending also sees Saul experience relief from his pain for the first time in the whole film. Having previously found eating difficult, Caprice gives him the purple plastic candy bar to eat to see if he’ll be able to swallow it. Saul’s pain eases immediately and the film closes on a single tear falling from his eye, his creaking chair, which anticipates his pain, now silent. Here is the full ending explainer for Cronenberg’s film, including why the characters mutilate their bodies for
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