David Cronenberg’s second pass at his own story titled Crimes of the Future opens with a filicide and then gets pretty disturbing — but not as icky as several of the uncompromising director’s earlier films — The Fly (1986), Naked Lunch (1991) and eXistenZ (1999), for example. This might be more a factor of the rest of moviedom pulling out the stops on viscera more frequently than with any change in Cronenberg’s particular vision. He’s still the master of revulsion in this story of a future time when humans develop immunity to pain and substitute scalpel-play for sex.
The hero of this tale is a shrouded figure named Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), who grows new internal organs but whose body appears seriously compromised, unable to process discomfort or digest food.
He and his partner Caprice (Lea Seydoux) have a popular organ extraction cabaret act that has attracted the attention of a weirdly repressed organ registrar (Kristen Stewart) and her twitchy companion (Don McKellar).
You know you’re in Cronenberg World when the funniest exchange is one character saying another character is creepy. But the movie’s sardonic take on human dystrophy is both potent and timely.
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