
Crimes of the Future2022
Jun 30, 2022 · imported from Letterboxd
This is the kind of movie, that despite its grotesqueries, I could sit through the whole runtime and would very much like to have a repeated viewing experience. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who felt that this movie is so relevant today. Nowadays, body piercing and tattoos had become so ordinary, that people who likes it so much would keep pushing "the art" form to the next level; plastic surgery has also become prosaic, to the point that people could never satisfy themselves unless they become unrecognizable. Tattoo artists and surgeons, what do they have in common? They could never get enough and would find ways to elevate their craft towards the brink of madness—probably in our near and distant future, body organs will get tattooed, medical practitioners would keep on pushing their propaganda in order to feel like they are God (I've decided not to mention the procedures because letterboxd is a left wing bigot). But we can agree (to disagree) that the last frame is a reminiscent of Dreyer's Joan of Arc and it's possibly the most beautiful shot I've seen in recent cinema, and the most human this movie could hope to be.