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‘Crimes Of The Future’s David Cronenberg Slams Conservative U.S. Politics: “In Canada…We Think Everyone In The U.S. Is Completely Insane” – Cannes

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In David Cronenberg’s latest genre twister, Crimes of the Future, Viggo Mortensen and Lea Seydoux plays partners who are performance artists, engrossed in performing surgery (largely on the former) for public nightclub spectacle.

They’re enthralled with the freedom they can take on each other’s bodies. All of this in a governing society that’s not too fond of it.The NEON release opens on June 3 at a time when Roe vs.

Wade is in jeopardy at SCOTUS.Cronenberg acknowledged at the Cannes Film Festival press conference that the movie “addresses, though not overtly political way, the question of who owns whose body.”“I did write it 20 years ago, but  you can feel that this was coming, this kind of oppressive ownership and control,” said the filmmaker about how issues of rights over one’s body against ruling governments hasn’t gone away. “It’s a constant in history: There’s some sort of government that wants to control its population and means once again, body is reality.”And that control then leads to the government having sway over “speaking, your brain”.“In Canada, and I have said this recently, we think everyone in the U.S.

is completely insane, I think the U.S. has gone completely bananas, and I can’t believe what the elected officials are saying, not just about Roe vs.

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