Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg 2022)

Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, offer a sociological discussion of Cronenberg's newest film, Crimes of the Future. Laura hated it, finding it overwrought, navel gazing, and abstruse. Marshall loved it, as an innovative exploration of bodies, pain, film, and the creative process. This made for a great discussion.

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Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg 2022)

Laura hated it, Marshall loved it. One of the most divisive films in the history of the podcast. Laura was bored and disconnected. Marshall thought Cronenberg was not only bringing up fascinating topics of technology, bodies, and art, but also layering in a metaphor for an artistic oeuvre. This made for a great discussion.

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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE

Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg 2022)

The Fly (Cronenberg 1986)

TOPIC INDEX – Crimes of the Future  (Cronenberg 2022) (times are approximate) 

0:30 – Introductions

2:30 – episode begins

2:30 – Film discussion begins

5:30 – sci-fi horror

11:00 – abstraction

20:00 – penetration in horror

27:00 – pain

35:00 – plastic

45:00 – ecological modernization

49:00 – art

51:30 – illness

56:00 – self critique?

1:07:00 – aesthetics

2:05:00 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility

Related Episodes

Mandy (Cosmatos 2018)

In Fabric (Strickland 2018)

Related Films

Pretty much any of Cronenberg’s previous films but especially

Crash (1996), Videodrome (1983), and Existenz (1999)

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Keywords

horror, podcast, sociology, gender, sci-fi, science fiction, bodies, pain, abstraction, cyborgs, sex, art, environment, microplastic, Cronenberg, autonomy, plastic, scars, natural, Baudrillard, pollution,

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