While Saul is an art star, he’s also the target of criticism from people who think he should keep his new body parts rather than take them out. The stars of the surgery-as-performance-art scene are Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), who’s been growing a variety of new and fascinating organs, and his collaborator Caprice (Léa Seydoux), who removes them from him in front of adoring audiences. “Surgery is the new sex,” proclaims one character in a sloganeering line of dialogue, one of several instances in the film that seems to underline or at least reaffirm ideas Cronenberg has been exploring throughout his career.
Watch David Cronenberg ‘Crimes of the Future’ Trailer Instead of Having Lunch Today (Video)īorrowing the title (but little else) from one of his earliest films, “Crimes of the Future” takes place in a near-future dystopia where pain has become a thing of the past and surgery is both a hot trend and the source of a new brand of performance art.
