Crimes of the Future 4K 2022 Ultra HD 2160p

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The near future. People have a syndrome of accelerated evolution, due to which the body begins to occur amazing changes - people have almost ceased to feel pain. In pursuit of forbidden sensations and forbidden pleasures, a mysterious organization conducts experiments on their own kind. Some accept the new reality, while others try to fight it by any means possible.

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On the eve of his 80th birthday, the legendary David Cronenberg presented to the world the first science-fiction horror film since 1999, 'Crimes of the Future' at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

The premiere caused a lot of hype, but reviews of the film were respectfully neutral. It has a 5.9 rating on Kinopoint and a 6.1 rating on IMDB.

David Cronenberg is the acknowledged master of body horror. In 'Future Crimes' the story is again centered around corporeality and eroticism. The audience sees a certain world of the future in which the vast majority of people have lost the ability to experience pain and some have the ability to grow new unknown organs inside themselves.

Sadistic-masochistic performance art has become part of mass and elitist culture. And the crime, the spread of which the new police fear, is experimentation with human organs, which can lead to the emergence of mutants.

If you are familiar with the superhero story 'X-Men', then the plot of 'Future Crimes' will seem familiar to you. Here viewers see a dystopian world in which the fear of 'posthuman' concepts is realized. Futurologists predict that humanity will learn to perfect its bodies. This will eventually lead to the formation of new superhumans, either mutants or cyborgs.

David Cronenberg, in his new film, grope for this concept, reasoning about it in terms of morality and mixing it with erotic deviations. But he doesn't pull off a coherent or terrifying story. 'Future Crimes' unfolds in some very small and highly conventional world. The director obviously didn't want to turn his film into sociopolitical commentary. He erased the boundaries between power and opposition, between rich and poor, reducing everything to abstract art and corporeality.

The concept of this film was developed by David Cronenberg for over 20 years. The original version was to have been played by Nicolas Cage. But the story clearly remained unrealized for a reason. Despite many years of work on the project, the film's concept remained crude and inarticulate. The horror film Crimes of the Future was not a bright return of the legendary director. Rather, it is a vivid testimony to the fact that the old (as Cronenberg himself demonstrated in this film) - whether we like it or not, whether we are afraid of it or not - is being replaced by something unknown and new. It's like the hero of a film, David Cronenberg, trying to prove that he can cultivate everything he needs to carry on in his successful existence. But unfortunately, unlike the hero of the film, the director did not succeed...