Art imitates real life, they say. Even the craziest sci-fi story is an extension and escalation of known reality. David Cronenberg is known like few others for particularly disturbing visions of the future to develop that play with the darkest of human impulses.
However, when the cult director presented his new film Crimes of the Future at the Cannes Film Festival, those present couldn’t help but wonder: maybe real life sometimes imitates even the darkest elements of fiction. In the Press conference on his latest sci-fi horror Cronenberg drew clear parallels between the themes of his film and the possible future of the USA.
That’s what sci-fi horror Crimes of the Future is all about
The Hollywood legend’s latest film depicts a dystopian future in which manipulating internal organs and disfiguring one’s own body is part of everyday life. Surgery has replaced sex and seem the only source of physical satisfaction.
Here is the second trailer for David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
Crimes Of The Future – Trailer 2 (English) HD
Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux play an artist couple who are slicing each other open for the ecstatic crowds. Kristen Stewart takes on the role of an insecure officer tasked with registering new organs. Scott Speedman, in turn, plays the leader of a movement whose followers no longer eat normal food, but feed on plastic. After all, that exists in abundance on the rocked-down planet. But that is forbidden. Because who is allowed to do what with his body is controlled by the authorities.
“The USA has gone mad”: David Cronenberg is appalled by the threat of abortion bans
A dystopian vision that could become a reality in the USA. Because there is a risk of overturning a fundamental judicial decision on the basis of which abortions were legalized. Several US politicians had already announced that they would support abortion bans. Physical self-determination? none. An idea that also disturbed body horror master David Cronenberg.
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“In Canada we think the US has gone completely insane,” the director told press. “We can’t believe elected people are saying what they are saying.” The question, “Who owns whose body?”, play a major role in his current film. Even if he wrote the script 20 years ago.
“Even then, you could feel something like this was coming. Kind of oppressive ownership and controlCronenberg said. Which brings him back to one of his core cinematic tenets that physicality is reality. Because whoever controls someone’s body controls everything: “Language, the ability to express yourself, your brain — that’s all your body.”
The question of the ability to determine one’s own body is more relevant than ever. In this sense, according to David Cronenberg, one can see his film as political.
Are you looking forward to Crimes of the Future?