Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
"In the evening, Canadian body horror maestro David Cronenberg unveiled Crimes of the Future, his first feature in 8 years and one of the most anticipated titles at Cannes. In true Cronenberg fashion, he paradoxically fulfills and subverts expectations. People hoping for the fun, twisted side of the director in films like "Videodrome" will get that here but through a much darker lens, like when the film opens with a mother suffocating her 8-year-old son. And those wanting the warped…
She wears short skirts
I wear t-shirts
She's cheer captain
And I'm suffering from a rare form of immunodeficiency
There are those who create through destruction, and those who create from scratch. Von Trier acknowledges the ugly truth that great art can come out of great suffering, but he also points out the danger of that mentality by making the 'artist' literally murder people in order to create his works. Von Trier uses Jack to show how this line of thinking has no moral floor. The most risible section in this film - where Jack argues that genocide is…