In 2022, after more than a century of pumping carbon into the atmosphere at an industrial scale, the environment has fully turned against us. We’re still recovering from a new plague, wildfires have become an annual fact of life in parts of the world and, somehow quite separately, we’re running out of water. Total ecological collapse feels not just inevitable, but already in motion.
In David Cronenberg’s new psychological body horror/satire Crimes of the Future, the body is rapidly adapting to this new world. The plastic waste and toxic sludge we spent years pumping into the world are now, instead, inside of us. The reality of the climate crisis poses an obvious question – at what point will Earth no longer be Earth? In this film, the question on everyone’s lips is, at what point, how many changes can take place, before humans are no longer human?
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