‘I’m basically a romantic’: David Cronenberg talks ‘Crimes of the Future’ and why it takes heart to become the master of body horror.
You can certainly see how the rest of us got there. Sitting at the grim intersection of science fiction and gory, outlandish transformations of the human corpus, body horror is a signature of Cronenberg’s work. And, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, and Scott Speedman, is no exception. This is a movie set at a time when humans have lost the ability to feel physical pain.
“I’m showing that an artist is exposing this innermost, deepest, most intimate part of himself and offering that up to an audience,” Cronenberg says. “And doing so is incredibly vulnerable to rejection, to anger, to misunderstanding. This is basically the archetype of what an artist — a serious, passionate artist — is.”
On the other hand, Stewart sells the line so well because her character means it, and the movie lends it passionate credibility. This is not a derisive intellectual exercise, nor, Cronenberg tells me, is it exactly a critique of the art world. The blood-and-guts realities and seemingly satirical jabs are effectively embedded in feelings. Running parallel to the movie’s artist-couple thread and the organ-growth antics, for example, is an entire subplot dedicated to a father’s grief.
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