David Cronenberg Teases Viggo Mortensen's Crimes of the Future Story Arc
Filmmaker David Cronenberg details the character arc of Viggo Mortensen’s character Saul Tenser in his new film Crimes of the Future. For a film whose trailer famously features the line “surgery is the new sex,”Crimes of the Future is undoubtedly receiving an appropriate level of attention, particularly for its typically Cronenbergian depictions of gore. The Canadian filmmaker has never shone away from violence, having directed some of the most famously gory films, such as The Fly and Scanners. However, this latest offering seems to be causing an even bigger stir than most.
Starring Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future is based on a script Cronenberg originally began production on in 2003. However, it was soon scrapped and wasn’t picked up again until 2021. The film returns to the classic body horror where Cronenberg made his name, with Mortensen and Seydoux starring as surgical performance artists who grow organs inside Tenser's body, which leads to a new form of human evolution. If that doesn’t prove that it’ll be a gory affair, then Cronenberg’s assumptions that the Cannes audiences will be walking out within five minutes will.
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For Cronenberg, however, it's not only about the gore. In an interview with Deadline, he explains that Tenser’s project is “examining the human condition,” which he sees as the inevitable focus of any art. Cronenberg outlines that Tenser is particularly focused on “his own human condition” and the “potential for creativity that his body seems to be expressing.” You can see the full quote below:
«Well, to the extent that any artist is basically examining the human condition, in one way or another, it’s inevitably the
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