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 level, 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 especially we crave to be as the people who society put on their 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'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.
More, even eating meat grown up from celebrities cells!
Within this sick sad world, a young seller of one of the biggest company in the business, fell finally into it's own mania, driving the society to the ultimate madness...
Brandon Cronenberg, obviously son of David, directed a slow movie (it reminded me the rhythm of Spider from his dad) but not boring, far from that. The aseptic look of some scene is well contrasted by the dirty thing people are doing it it.
Great 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 level, 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 especially we crave to be as the people who society put on their 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'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.
More, even eating meat grown up from celebrities cells!
Within this sick sad world, a young seller of one of the biggest company in the business, fell finally into it's own mania, driving the society to the ultimate madness...
Brandon Cronenberg, obviously son of David, directed a slow movie (it reminded me the rhythm of Spider from his dad) but not boring, far from that. The aseptic look of some scene is well contrasted by the dirty thing people are doing it it.
Great 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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