We have the David Cronenberg of old back in Crimes of the Future. The Canadian maestro of mutilated flesh made his name with body horror films in the 1970s and ’80s, then spent this century moving away from that. Much as I’ve admired his relatively decorous dramas such as A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, I
Pain is a essentially a thing of the past for some in David Cronenberg’s “ Crimes of the Future,” a dense, gorgeous and grotesque meditation on bodies, creation and art.
Pain is a essentially a thing of the past for some in David Cronenberg's " Crimes of the Future," a dense, gorgeous and grotesque meditation on bodies, creation and art. Suffering, however, is still alive and well as everyone grapples with the enormity of that fact that human evolution has "gone wrong."