In 2021, a science fiction horror film called "Titanium" received acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival for its imaginative and common-concept plot.
The story tells the story of a heroine who has been implanted with titanium metal in her head since she was a child. Under the influence of titanium, her character has become more irritable and illogical.
At the same time, the heroine's love for metal machines has crossed the category of species, and she had a relationship with a car and became pregnant (you heard it right, she was pregnant with the car's child)
With the onset of pregnancy reactions, The heroine's temperament changed drastically, and she even tortured and killed a group of friends who had no malicious intentions. The bloody scale was explosive.
The heroine who cares about human life has no remorse until she meets fire captain Vincent, and everything changes.
In addition to its astonishing scale, it is precisely because it explores a series of profound issues such as fetishism, the master-servant relationship between humans and machines, and racial reproduction that make "Titanium" one of the most popular movies in 2021.
Although there are constant disputes about what movies are about , "Titanium", which is full of violence and novelty elements, has gained a lot at major film festivals, and won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or , which can be regarded as a pioneer. A whole new type of movie.
In 2022, another science fiction thriller called " Future Crimes " continues the incredible storyline of "Titanium".
The film puts forward a bold hypothesis: In the future world, the organs of the human body have mutated, new organs have new body functions, and human pain-sensing nerves are gradually lost, which also involves a fierce collision about human ethics and morality. .
When "Future Crimes" was released at the Cannes Film Festival, many viewers left the show midway because of the incredible plot and various uncomfortable sensory images, making the film a lot of attention.
In addition to the novel content of the film, the cast is also equally strong.
The "Human Emperor" who is well-known to the audience for his work in "The Lord of the Rings" and "Green Book" Viggo Mortensen,
"Twilight Girl" Kristen Stewart,
The new "Bond Girl" " Léa Seydoux The three leading actors devoted themselves to art, made huge sacrifices, and staged the largest performance since the movie.
It is necessary to mention David Cronenberg, the director of "Future Crimes".
As an internationally renowned horror film director, David Cronenberg has always liked to stimulate the audience with various images that shock the senses.
One of the most well-known works is the science fiction thriller " The Fly Man " . The plot of a scientist who accidentally obtained the gene of a fly during an experiment, and whose flesh and skin peeled off bit by bit and turned into a terrifying monster, frightened many viewers.
In his other work "Spiritual Baby", a scene of eating a baby alive was staged, which touched the bottom line of many viewers.
In addition to making horror films, David Cronenberg is also working on abnormal romance films and fantasy films.
For example, "Farewell My Concubine" is as famous as "M. Butterfly", which tells the story of a Chinese spy who disguises himself as a woman to collect intelligence from the French department.
The heroine Song Liling, played by Zun Long, and the Frenchman Gao Zhenni staged a forbidden love. The film explores whether love is the person or the gender of the other person. It is still controversial until now.
"Train Named Desire" even combines car accidents with love affairs between men and women. David Cronenberg first proposed the proposition that car crashes can satisfy physiological needs, which was controversial when the movie was released.
Many netizens even believe that the word "driving" comes from this film.
It can be said that every work of David Cronenberg is full of controversy and experimentation, which also makes "Future Crimes", which was planned for 8 years, attract the attention of many movie fans.
As early as when "Future Crimes" was released, it was compared to "Titanium" because of its bold style and various shots that shock the senses. Some people even praised this film as the heavy flavor ceiling of 2022.
Today, Chacha is going to take a look at David Cronenberg's latest horror movie
"Crimes of the Future"
Crimes of the Future
The film is set in a future world where humans are increasingly adapting to synthetic environments and the human body is also changing. It gradually becomes the object of synthetic processing, and the organs in the body mutate.
The urinary, excretory, digestive and other systems are no longer simply limited to the internal organs and other organs. With the emergence of new organs and tissues, people's pain gradually disappears, and instead they use anesthesia-free surgery to stimulate themselves to achieve the purpose of pleasure.
At the beginning of the story, several sets of shots are used to create a weird atmosphere:
Not far from the beach lies a sunken cruise ship.
A boy hid in the toilet and ate from a plastic bucket. When his mother saw it, she covered the boy with a pillow.
Although she was extremely sad, the mother still called the child's father and asked him to come and collect the body.
Performance artist Sol discovered that he had grown new organs. Under the influence of the new organs, his pain nerves became increasingly dull.
As a last resort, Sol and his female assistant Reese only got the organ registration organization to register.
The so-called organ registration organization is to prevent unknown organs from affecting human cognition. New organs are marked with symbols through surgery.
However, this organ registration organization is not legal and they always evade police sanctions.
In an avant-garde art performance, Saul used a machine to open his abdominal cavity in front of everyone, making his new organs public to the world.
Staff of the Organ Management Department Timlin In Sol's performance, he believed that organ cutting can replace traditional reproductive mating and allow human physiological happiness to reach another stage.
Timlin quickly became Thor's little crush, obsessed with his ability to automatically grow new organs.
The father of the boy who just killed found Saul and asked Saul to use an autopsy device to dissect his child.
Obviously Saul cannot accept this unscrupulous request.
However, from the mouths of the boy's parents, Saul learned that the boy's father had been experimenting with evolutionary engineering of human digestive organs, with the purpose of allowing humans to use plastics and synthetic items in a new dietary stage.
For this purpose, he specially made a purple plastic candy. Unfortunately, normal humans will die after eating it, but the boy was born with his father's organ system and can directly eat plastic. This led to the boy's mother treating the boy as a monster and killing him. Kill.
The boy's father wanted to rely on Sol's influence to display the boy's internal organs in front of everyone to announce to the world that the human digestive system has fully evolved and can eat synthetic items such as plastics, and is no longer restricted by meat, fruits and vegetables.
In fact, Saul did not like the feeling of growing new organs. The reason why he claimed to enjoy the feeling of new organs being cut off was completely commissioned by the "New Crimes" department established by the police to facilitate the intrusion into the boy's father. The inside of the organization breaks it down.
The original intention of the establishment of the so-called new crime department was to prevent the public from being obsessed with new organs and causing chaos in human evolution.
Sure enough, Saul got the boy's body. But during the autopsy, everyone discovered that the boy's internal organs were covered with symbols.
In other words, his internal organs are all new organs synthesized the day after tomorrow, and they are by no means grown in nature. The evolutionary nature of being born with the ability to eat plastic is fictitious.At the end of the
film, the boy's father was killed by an employee of the catering equipment company because of the threat to his financial interests. He was still unwilling when he died.
Saul learned from the police that the boy had been tricked by Timlin of the organ registration organization, and that he actually had an organ for digesting plastic.
In order to confirm whether the human digestive system really eats plastic, Thor ate the purple candy made by the boy's father. Whether he had exceeded the limits of the human body, the director did not tell the audience, and the scene ended abruptly.
Organ fetishism and human body horror, this may be the most serious movie this year.
"Future Crimes" has been controversial since its release.
In addition to meticulously showing the entire process of dissecting internal organs and several actresses in the film devoting themselves to art, the film also explores the proposition that if the human body has changed, then it is still considered human.
Official authorities represented by the police obviously have a conservative attitude towards changes in internal organs.
As for Sol's female assistant Reese, Timlin of the organ registration department likes the generation of new organs and looks forward to the evolution of the human body.
According to the core, "Future Crimes" explores the lack of human physiological desires. For example, in the film, Timlin wants to get close to Thor, but is told that he no longer likes old-fashioned reproductive behaviors.
On the contrary, Reith's behavior of sucking Sol's internal organs made him enjoy it even more.
Ruisi and Sol's friction between ears and temples relied on pain to achieve mutual pleasure. Inspired by their friends, they left scars on their foreheads to "beautify" themselves.
As the main factor in horror films, the destruction of human limbs is an important means of showing visual stimulation.
Take David Cronenberg's masterpiece "The Fly" as an example. Nearly half of the entire film is used to carefully show the process of the male protagonist losing human characteristic organs bit by bit and turning into a fly monster.
In addition to creating a disgusting visual effect,
also uses the falling off of the male protagonist’s organs to show the gradual disappearance of his humanity.
In fact, David Cronenberg has been trying to use the concept of "body horror" to explain the complex relationship between humans and society, and humans and cognition. Future Crimes is no exception.
Unfortunately, "Future Crimes" was too highbrow and low-key, which led to serious controversy over his praise and criticism, making it difficult for the audience to classify him.
You can call it a horror movie. Except for a few highlight scenes of dissecting internal organs, there are not many scary scenes.
You can call it a science fiction film. In the film, there are only a few bionic breakfast chairs and autopsy dissection devices that can be seen as futuristic. The rest of the scene is a wasteland, which is no different from cyberpunk or wasteland. Related.
This is supposed to be the main plot. The scene where the male protagonist Saul detects the mutant digestive tissue does not appear until the second half of the film.
Perhaps in the past few years, the prediction of organ evolution mentioned in "Future Crimes" will become a reality, but it is definitely not now.
He is destined not to be a masterpiece.
This article is the original work of Chacha Kanpi. It is not allowed to be reproduced or plagiarized without my permission. Violators will be prosecuted.
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