Some little spoilers are present
Is it the single sick mind that rot society from the inside?
Or is society itself that is sick, and infects every single one of us on different levels, as a virus can infect someone while being inactive on some others?
While society is driven by few people (the Powerful) it's sure as hell that all of us are conditioned by it and many also crave to be as the people who society put on covers, on the big screens.
So there are people that dress exactly like their idols, who change the colour of their hair, start drinking something because the star advertises it on tv. There are people who undergoes surgery to become like the star who they're worshipping.
Obviously over the entire history of cinema many directors filmed their personal manifest of complaint and Brandon Cronenberg did the same with this one.
In the movie society has reach a sick level of mass-media mania : people goes to clinic to have injected the same illness their favourite stars have... Even worst, they want to eat meat grown up from celebrities cells!
Within this sick sad world a young seller, working for one of the biggest company in the business, fell finally into it's own mania, driving the whole society to the ultimate madness...
Brandon Cronenberg, obviously son of David, filmed a slow movie (it reminded me the rhythm of his dad's Spider) but not boring, far from that. The aseptic look of some scene well contrasts the dirty things people are doing it it.
Fantastic performances by the main actor Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men : First Class, The Last Exorcism) and a short part also for the great Malcom McDowell (I really need to state some of his works?!)
Is it the single sick mind that rot society from the inside?
Or is society itself that is sick, and infects every single one of us on different levels, as a virus can infect someone while being inactive on some others?
While society is driven by few people (the Powerful) it's sure as hell that all of us are conditioned by it and many also crave to be as the people who society put on covers, on the big screens.
So there are people that dress exactly like their idols, who change the colour of their hair, start drinking something because the star advertises it on tv. There are people who undergoes surgery to become like the star who they're worshipping.
Obviously over the entire history of cinema many directors filmed their personal manifest of complaint and Brandon Cronenberg did the same with this one.
In the movie society has reach a sick level of mass-media mania : people goes to clinic to have injected the same illness their favourite stars have... Even worst, they want to eat meat grown up from celebrities cells!
Within this sick sad world a young seller, working for one of the biggest company in the business, fell finally into it's own mania, driving the whole society to the ultimate madness...
Brandon Cronenberg, obviously son of David, filmed a slow movie (it reminded me the rhythm of his dad's Spider) but not boring, far from that. The aseptic look of some scene well contrasts the dirty things people are doing it it.
Fantastic performances by the main actor Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men : First Class, The Last Exorcism) and a short part also for the great Malcom McDowell (I really need to state some of his works?!)
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