David Cronenberg Explains His Body Horror Movie Crimes Of The Future
Director David Cronenberg has offered an explanation as to what his new film Crimes of the Future is about. Since the beginning of his career, Cronenberg's name has been more or less synonymous with body horror. The Canadian filmmaker has long been interested in disease and the terrifying things that can happen to human flesh, an idea that he has explored in projects like the notorious head-exploding cult classic Scanners and the 1986 sci-fi remake The Fly, which stars Jeff Goldblum as a scientist who begins slowly transforming into a grotesque fly-human hybrid. Despite this evident passion for the subject, his recent output has seen the director turn away from horror toward more straightforward dramas like the 2014 satirical drama Maps to the Stars.
Crimes of the Future's plot description certainly makes it sound like a return to form for the director. The film, which came to theaters on June 3, follows a couple who are both performance artists: Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and Caprice (Léa Seydoux). Their performance, which is made possible by the disease Accelerated Evolution Syndrome, involves them growing new organs onstage before removing them and putting them on display. This syndrome is a reaction to an increasingly synthetic world following climate catastrophe. The rest of the cast of the film includes Don McKellar, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Lihi Kornowski, and Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart.
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While speaking with Variety, Cronenberg attempted to explain the meaning behind Crimes of the Future. He explains that Tenser's unusual performance style is a metaphor for the artist "giving what is the deepest, most intimate part of himself hidden inside." However,
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