Crimes of the Future
David Cronenberg likes the title Crimes of the Future. Heās used it once before, for a film he made in 1970. Heās using it again here, 52 years later, but thereās no other connection between the two, at least on the surface. The 1970 is comedy sci-fi about a world without women, the 2022 recycling is good old-fashioned Cronenbergian body horror like he used to make. FYI, eXistenZ (1999), his last go at the genre he dominated in the 1980s and 90s, also had the working title Crimes of the Future. This Crimes of the Futureās origins go back to four years after eXistenZ, when Cronenberg was trying to put together a film … Read more