Crimes of the Future (1970)
Crimes of the Future (1970)
DVDRip | MKV | 678x576 | x264 @ 2000 Kbps | 67 min | 1,02 Gb
Audio: English AAC 2.0 @ 170 Kbps | Subs: Nederlands, Français, Deutsch, Español
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
DVDRip | MKV | 678x576 | x264 @ 2000 Kbps | 67 min | 1,02 Gb
Audio: English AAC 2.0 @ 170 Kbps | Subs: Nederlands, Français, Deutsch, Español
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Stars: Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty
Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge.
Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. Tripod joins a succession of organisations including Metaphysical Import-Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body. Eventually Tripod comes upon a group of paedophiles which is holding a 5 year-old girl, and they urge him to mate with her. He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge.
This is an unusual filmic experience, hypnotic, trance-like, not totally rewarding but still fascinating. On the soundtrack you can only hear the narrator, strange noises (sounds of sea-creatures) and for some stretches, total silence. Signs of Cronenbergs weird imagination is present throughout the narrative. I especially liked the quite extraordinary concept of "creative cancer".The sterile, modernistic architecture lends the movie a strangely desolate, surreal tone and sets, at least my, imagination in motion. It´s like stepping into another reality, something Cronenberg has continued to achieve in the best of his subsequent movies. It´s an experimental film, but it succeeds in drawing the viewer into the picture, not solely with its narrative, but with its images and composition. In fact, it´s not unlike what Kubrick did, in much larger scope of course, with 2001. Recommended for Cronenberg fans, and those of you who aren´t afraid of something different.
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Crimes of the Future (1970)
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