Canadian auteur David Cronenberg's return to the body horror genre created an uproar at its Cannes Film Festival premiere. Crimes of the Future had some audience members walking out in revulsion and disgust. The film fetishizes mutilation in a grotesque dystopian future where humanity has lost the ability to feel pain. Surgery becomes intimacy as a select few can grow new organs. Cronenberg has a salient point to make. The problem is that a fractured narrative and logical misfires cloud his objective. The gruesome imagery and rampant nudity are just stomach-churning distractions to a surprisingly dull script.
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