| Crimes of the Future [message #96562] |
Sun, 26 March 2023 16:21  |
Rusty
Messages: 1087
Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri
|
Illuminati (2nd Degree) |
|
|
I watched this movie yesterday on the Kanopy movie channel. It's quite a strange fantasy of the future. Not a utopian one either. This future dwells on a possible human evolution internally to the environment. Directed by David Cronenberg, whose known for strange subject matter. This future technology seems to incorporate organic forms. About the only clue to a future like setting.
Suffice to say, humans have lost the sense of pain and some are metamorphasysing new internal organs. Organs of unknown use. This has become a performance art to reveal these organs during a bizarre surgical show. There is a sexually implied aspect to it as well. The main character, (Viggo Mortensen-Lord of the Rings), is the main performer in conjunction with his female partner conducting this ritual reveal to an audience using this strange surgical organic technology.
A sub plot is a branch of law enforcement investigating a sect of humans that are surgically evolving their internal digestion to eating plastic compounds. There's so much in the environment. And motives investigating a murder of a young boy who was born with the ability to eat plastic by evolutionary selection. His father is part of the sect.
The movie doesn't try to put any ethical baggage to the state of where human kind is evolving. It shows simply what is happening in this odd society. Though murder is still an ethical taboo. As the young boys mother was responsible for his murder. The protagonist performer is cajoled by the law enforcement agency into infiltrating this sect of human plastic eaters.
Well, that's all I'll say about it. It was kind of challenge to "digest" this very weird but intriguing movie. Some nudity, but no explicit scenes.
I came away with a few, "Whew", what a weird movie. Glad I watched it though.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Crimes of the Future [message #96681 is a reply to message #96562] |
Sat, 06 May 2023 22:47  |
Concorde
Messages: 149
Registered: December 2013
|
Master |
|
|
It kind of sounds like he could have made two movies out of that. Or a trilogy for that matter.
It all seems to focus on the future of the human body, and that's a rather new twist on sci-fi.
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
Members
Search
Help
Register
Login
Get a T-Shirt!
