In David Cronenberg’s new thriller, a youngster is punished for having a wayward appetite. Brecken (Sozos Sotiris) has a taste for plastic objects, specifically the kind of plastic objects found in a bathroom, which doesn’t sit well with his mother, Djuna (Lihi Kornowski). It’s a tale as old as time: boy eats bin, boy gets murdered by mum.
What was 79-year-old Cronenberg thinking, when he wrote this sci-fi yarn? One thing’s for sure, he was thinking. Like Cronenberg’s greatest works (Dead Ringers; Crash; eXistenZ), Crimes of the Future is packed with brilliant ideas. The one, here, that offers most food for thought: humans fuelled by non-biodegradable waste may hold the key to saving our planet.
