(2022) Crimes of the Future
SCIENCE-FICTION
Written and directed by David Cronenburg directing not a popcorn movie and it only works if English subtitles are applied for the purpose of viewers knowing exactly what is happening verbally speaking that is. The movie is complicated, and it may be easier if I were to explain it without using non usable terms such as 'accelerated evolution syndrome' or 'life form ware' to name a few. For one, this is David Cronenburg's definition of a bleak dystopian where regular food is scarce. And at the opening has a mother, Djuna Dotrice (Lihi Kornowski) killing her own son, Breken (Sotiris Siozos) after she catches him nibbling on a plastic garbage can located underneath a sink, and then calls her dad to come and pick him up. The next scene, we are then introduced to the duo of Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and his partner/ lover Caprice (Léa Seydoux) who appear to be exhibitionists- art exhibitionists that is. And just to remind viewers this is Cronenburg's definition of a bleak dystopian when 'sex is surgery' or 'surgery is the new sex'. There's a scene later where Timlin (Kristen Stewart) attempted to physically make out with Saul, and he responds to her by stopping her before he tells her he does not know the "old" ways of making love anymore. Besides Saul displaying this morbid gig on display surrounded with on-lookers, some with hand held cam corder's and so forth with his partner, Caprice, one of those on lookers also includes the dead boy's father, Lang Doctrice (Scott Speedman). And after Lang became impressed with Saul's surgery exhibition, he then offers his dead son, Breken for his next exhibition and calling it 'Breken's autopsy'. And at first, Saul is hesitant as he also has another side gig as undercover, for a guy named Cope (Welket Bungué). And Cope is a part of an organization for the intent of cracking down on people who have the ability to digest anything to do with plastic. And as it turns out, there is also an underground racket happening where purple plastic chocolate bars are being manufactured in the black market, and Cope wants the entire organization to be exposed. As viewers saw earlier, during Saul's 'surgery exhibition' one of the onlookers grabbed it after it was abandoned lying on the counter, and assumed it was nothing more but a normal chocolate bar and he died after taking a single bite. I must admit, I too assumed it was just a chocolate bar as I saw Lang taking a bite out of it at the beginning and then some, but as the movie was progressing, it turned out it was nothing more but plastic. Did I mention normal food was scarce in Cronenburg's bleak dystopian, for it was soon revealed that was the reason why the mom Djuna killed her son, was because she was unable to accept the fact that her son can absorb plastic, that she defined him as some creature and not recognize him as her son anymore. That the reason the son Breken was with her because she kidnapped him from her estranged husband Lang. And as the movie continues, we find another new revelation, and that is that the son may have inherited the ability to absorb plastic without it (plastic) killing him from his father, Lang. In other words Lang's son was born with that ability. That Lang as well as others had their stomachs/ intestines altered to tolerate plastic if s/he were to consume it. Giving Saul and his companion Caprice to make Breken's autopsy to be the main attraction, and part of the exhibit as the intent was to look at how has his stomach be any different than a normal stomach. And at that point, for awhile at least I was kind of little grossed out by the thought of a little boy's stomach being sliced. And then it's like, I realized that what I may be looking at is a fake looking intestine, and you know what- it is. Turning Lang Dotrice into a martyr, with Saul unable to digest the gross slop he's been eating all throughout the movie, and transitioning toward eating plastic for the very first time. Meaning that Saul's stomach/ intestines may have been altered to tolerate plastic as it would have killed the average person.
The movie is good enough to be watched once if one were to take out some of the grossed out scenes, otherwise, it's just another regular dystopian movie. This is the fourth movie Viggo Mortensen collaborated with director David Cronenburg.
Written and directed by David Cronenburg directing not a popcorn movie and it only works if English subtitles are applied for the purpose of viewers knowing exactly what is happening verbally speaking that is. The movie is complicated, and it may be easier if I were to explain it without using non usable terms such as 'accelerated evolution syndrome' or 'life form ware' to name a few. For one, this is David Cronenburg's definition of a bleak dystopian where regular food is scarce. And at the opening has a mother, Djuna Dotrice (Lihi Kornowski) killing her own son, Breken (Sotiris Siozos) after she catches him nibbling on a plastic garbage can located underneath a sink, and then calls her dad to come and pick him up. The next scene, we are then introduced to the duo of Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and his partner/ lover Caprice (Léa Seydoux) who appear to be exhibitionists- art exhibitionists that is. And just to remind viewers this is Cronenburg's definition of a bleak dystopian when 'sex is surgery' or 'surgery is the new sex'. There's a scene later where Timlin (Kristen Stewart) attempted to physically make out with Saul, and he responds to her by stopping her before he tells her he does not know the "old" ways of making love anymore. Besides Saul displaying this morbid gig on display surrounded with on-lookers, some with hand held cam corder's and so forth with his partner, Caprice, one of those on lookers also includes the dead boy's father, Lang Doctrice (Scott Speedman). And after Lang became impressed with Saul's surgery exhibition, he then offers his dead son, Breken for his next exhibition and calling it 'Breken's autopsy'. And at first, Saul is hesitant as he also has another side gig as undercover, for a guy named Cope (Welket Bungué). And Cope is a part of an organization for the intent of cracking down on people who have the ability to digest anything to do with plastic. And as it turns out, there is also an underground racket happening where purple plastic chocolate bars are being manufactured in the black market, and Cope wants the entire organization to be exposed. As viewers saw earlier, during Saul's 'surgery exhibition' one of the onlookers grabbed it after it was abandoned lying on the counter, and assumed it was nothing more but a normal chocolate bar and he died after taking a single bite. I must admit, I too assumed it was just a chocolate bar as I saw Lang taking a bite out of it at the beginning and then some, but as the movie was progressing, it turned out it was nothing more but plastic. Did I mention normal food was scarce in Cronenburg's bleak dystopian, for it was soon revealed that was the reason why the mom Djuna killed her son, was because she was unable to accept the fact that her son can absorb plastic, that she defined him as some creature and not recognize him as her son anymore. That the reason the son Breken was with her because she kidnapped him from her estranged husband Lang. And as the movie continues, we find another new revelation, and that is that the son may have inherited the ability to absorb plastic without it (plastic) killing him from his father, Lang. In other words Lang's son was born with that ability. That Lang as well as others had their stomachs/ intestines altered to tolerate plastic if s/he were to consume it. Giving Saul and his companion Caprice to make Breken's autopsy to be the main attraction, and part of the exhibit as the intent was to look at how has his stomach be any different than a normal stomach. And at that point, for awhile at least I was kind of little grossed out by the thought of a little boy's stomach being sliced. And then it's like, I realized that what I may be looking at is a fake looking intestine, and you know what- it is. Turning Lang Dotrice into a martyr, with Saul unable to digest the gross slop he's been eating all throughout the movie, and transitioning toward eating plastic for the very first time. Meaning that Saul's stomach/ intestines may have been altered to tolerate plastic as it would have killed the average person.
The movie is good enough to be watched once if one were to take out some of the grossed out scenes, otherwise, it's just another regular dystopian movie. This is the fourth movie Viggo Mortensen collaborated with director David Cronenburg.