The Shrouds 4K 2024 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

For several years, Karsh has been grieving for his wife, who died of cancer. He runs a technology company called GraveTech, which, thanks to innovative shrouds, allows him to watch the decomposition of the bodies of buried loved ones in high resolution. One day, Karsh notices strange growths on his wife's remains, and his cemetery is attacked - several tombstones, including his wife's, are destroyed.

Review 4K Movie

This is not a typical Cronenberg film, in which, as usual, technology becomes a reason to delve into deep personal, philosophical, and paranoid reflections. This time, everything revolves around the “shroud” — an invention that allows you to watch the body of the deceased decompose in the grave. Through a screen on the gravestone, through an app on a smartphone — everything is in high resolution, as if death and subsequent decay have become a new way of staying close to those we have lost.

The main character and creator of this technology is an entrepreneur (played by Vincent Cassel) who recently lost his wife. Connecting to the image of her remains, he accidentally notices something strange — some growths that appeared after death. And from this moment on, a disturbing and at times absurd investigation begins, involving doctors, relatives, and then suspicions of international espionage conspiracy: China, hackers, surveillance through corpses — all in the best traditions of 21st-century paranoia.

A personal storyline develops in parallel: the hero tries to build relationships with three different women. One cannot even bear to hear the word “death,” the second is a blind widow who lost her husband to a similar illness as his wife, and the third is the sister of the deceased. These relationships are not so much romantic as they are post-traumatic: an attempt to cope with loss, to find intimacy without losing the memory of the past.

Visually and stylistically, the film is typical of Cronenberg's later work: detachment, strange tension, physicality without bodies, irony without laughter. The atmosphere is both sterile and oppressive.

It seems that the author is reflecting on death, observation, control, and emotional inaccessibility. Or maybe he is simply trying to deal with something personal through a fictional plot, perhaps his own loss.

Overall, it is more of an existential drama than science fiction or a thriller. The film asks questions but is in no hurry to provide answers.