or crime of a movie? Love it or leave it!
LEAVE IT (suggested choice):
David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’ is a Senseless Collection of Horrifying Garbage – The director’s latest abomination is causing audiences to walk out in droves:
Crimes of the Future is a load of crap. I would like to find a more civil way to describe even a sick and depraved barf bag of a movie like this one, but it defeats every reasonable attempt to try. Publicity poopery declares it “From the mind of David Cronenberg.” That’s your first warning signal. I’ve been able to endure a few of his epic horrors in the past, but 90% of the time I’ve found no evidence of any kind of mind at all. (…) The Observer
LOVE IT:
(…) This is set in an eerie future world in which people’s bodies are changing and everyone is beginning to divine that they are on the brink of a post-human evolutionary stage. Developments in medicine and analgesia have diminished physical sensation to the extent that pain is a thing of the past, so much so that it is sought after by a bizarre new breed of sicko sybarites, but conventional sensual pleasure is withering away also, along with the disgust and fear that has always moderated human behaviour. And along with this, bodies themselves have also shown that they are capable of growing new organs, whose function is not yet clear. (…) The Guardian, Cronenberg’s post-pain, post-sex body horror sensation