Crimes of the Future

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4.5 • 11.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Crimes of the Future marks director David Cronenberg's return to the body horror genre. The film is set in a dystopian future where humans no longer feel pain, as they are evolving to adapt to a world riddled with synthetic chemicals. Viggo Mortensen stars as a man who spontaneously grows new organs. Together with his partner, played by Léa Seydoux, he turns the tattooing, surgical removal and display of these organs into performance art.

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0:00.0	Writer director David Cronenberg is back, baby, back to Body Horror at least with the film
0:09.7	Crimes of the Future.
0:11.5	This movie has everything, children eating plastic, pulsating furniture, bodies that grow
0:16.1	new internal organs, abdominal surgery as performance art, Kristen Stewart in a jumpsuit.
0:22.6	I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about Crimes of the Future on Pop Culture
0:25.8	Happy Hour from NPR.
0:31.2	Joining me today is Jordan Kruciola, a Reddern producer and the host of the podcast Feeling
0:35.2	Seen on Maximum Fun.
0:36.9	Welcome back Jordan.
0:37.9	Thank you for having me.
0:38.9	The real to be here on the occasion of Mr. David Cronenberg.
0:42.2	Absolutely.
0:43.2	And also here with us is Reddern Film Critic Walter.
0:45.1	Ciao, welcome back Walter.
0:46.1	Hey, good morning everybody.
0:47.1	It seems like you have Jordan and I on whenever there's something weird and kinky to talk
0:51.4	about.
0:52.4	We are team surgery is the new sex Walter.
0:54.9	Yep, yeah.
0:55.9	Listen, I am about to attempt to describe the premise of this film, cover me I'm going
1:00.2	in, tell my husband I loved him.
1:03.4	Crimes of the Future is David Cronenberg's first film in eight years and marks his return
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