Box Office
Flop · 0.2xBudget$27M
Worldwide Gross$4.6M
Crimes of the Future stays neutral with a 2/10 woke score by focusing on Saul Tenser and Caprice's body-horror performances and classic Cronenberg themes of evolution and tech, delivering pure story-driven sci-fi without political messaging.
Crimes of the Future is a David Cronenberg body-horror sci-fi film centered on performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), who publicly remove and display his spontaneously growing new organs in a future where pain has vanished and humanity adapts to a synthetic environment through accelerated evolution.
The plot follows an investigator (Kristen Stewart as Timlin) and a group seeking to publicize plastic-digesting modifications, with surgery framed as the new sex. These are extensions of Cronenberg's longstanding themes of bodily transformation, technology, and eroticism seen in films like Videodrome and Crash, not activist messaging.
We've run a full content analysis on Crimes of the Future and scored it 2/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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