Just How Graphic & Disturbing Is Cronenberg's Crimes Of The Future?
Just how graphic and disturbing is David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future? It’s been eight years since Cronenberg last directed a film, but the filmmaker is back with the horror/sci-fi Crimes of the Future, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Leá Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart among others. The film can be quite grotesque, but just how much of it is unsettling?
Set in some undisclosed time period in the future, Crimes of the Future sees a world where humans are in their next stage of evolution. Many no longer feel any pain and those that do are transforming on the inside. One such person is Saul Tenser, a performance artist whose body grows new organs inexplicably and which are removed surgically in front of an audience by his partner and former trauma surgeon Caprice. If this premise sounds a bit gruesome, that’s because Crimes of the Future utilizes pain in a way that could be considered torturous. Saul’s pain is on display for public consumption.
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When Crimes of the Future premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, plenty of audience members walked out of the screening because of how graphic they felt it was. To that end, viewers who have yet to see it can expect some disgusting scenes, including one where a man’s mouth and eyes are being sewn shut and live surgeries that detail the cutting open of skin and the removal of body parts. There is certainly a lot of body horror throughout Crimes of the Future and violence that involves the use of drills and surgical knives that are attached to machinery. A boy is also shown eating a trash can, happily chewing away at the plastic, and a body being poked and prodded to see what’s inside.
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