Crimes of the Future 1970 123movies

Watch: Crimes of the Future 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. Tripod joins a succession of organisations including Metaphysical Import-Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body. Eventually Tripod comes upon a group of paedophiles which is holding a 5 year-old girl, and they urge him to mate with her. He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge..
Plot: Crimes of the Future is set in a future where sexually mature women appear to have been obliterated by a plague produced by the use of cosmetics. The film details the wanderings of Adrian Tripod, director of the dermatological clinic the House of Skin. Tripod seems at a loss following the disappearance of his mentor Antoine Rouge.
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Ratings:

	4.8/10 Votes: 2,378
	50% | RottenTomatoes
	58/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 67 Popularity: 6.006 | TMDB

Reviews:

Dermatological strangeness
Have become a great admirer of David Cronenberg and find his films and style interesting. His films are unsettling and the subjects that he chooses to explore are very difficult ones, but that is what makes him and his films interesting. Most are good to brilliant and none of them for me are terrible or irredeemable (though a few disappointed). A few too belong in the appreciate rather than love category.

There were directors that started off shakily, Stanley Kubrick for example started with his worst film ‘Fear and Desire’. Cronenberg was one of those directors, with this and ‘Stereo’, before improving significantly with ‘Shivers’. Which wasn’t perfect, but explored the major theme of sexual exploration and consciousness of mind that was introduced in ‘Stereo’ much better and the other five or so after doing the theme even better than that. Found his first great film to be ‘The Brood’ and his best films ‘The Fly’ and ‘Dead Ringers’. After seeing ‘Stereo’ and ‘Crimes of the Future’ not far apart only recently, it is hard to decide which was worse between those two. None of them are unwatchable, but for Cronenberg they were both underwhelming and the flaws in both films are exactly the same.

Beginning with the good things, ‘Crimes of the Future’ doesn’t look too bad at all for early Cronenberg and for a film made on a low budget. Actually thought it was one of the better-looking early Cronenberg films and feel the same with ‘Stereo’, both look better than ‘Shivers’ and ‘Rabid’ despite both of those films being better overall. The photography shows inexperience at times but mostly is quite skillful and atmospheric. The location does have a good deal of unsettlement, if not as eerie as ‘Stereo’ and the lighting adds a lot to the atmosphere.

Some interesting diverse themes here in ‘Crimes of the Future’ (but they were explored in much more detail and more compellingly in other films). Intriguing concept, Ronald Mlodzik is surprisingly hauntingly nuanced and the ending is memorable.

On the other hand, the flaws that were in ‘Stereo’ are not improved upon, other than the acting being marginally better (not saying much for most, got the sense their hearts weren’t in it properly) and that it was a little less confused. That’s pretty much it for the improvements. Found it to be very dull, going at too slow a pace for a story that was pretty slight, making a very short length feel longer. Too many overlong and drawn out scenes are the problem in this regard. Also felt that it was too clinical and emotionally distant, usually do feel something watching Cronenberg whether it’s being disturbed, being amused at some dark wit or being moved. This is a not so common case of feeling nothing in a Cronenberg film.

Cronenberg’s direction is similarly clinical and it comes over as bland apart from being relatively technically sound. Despite saying that the slight story was less confused, again that was actually not saying much either because it is still muddled and one may have to ask anybody who’s watching it with them what’s going on and they are likely to not know. The dialogue is self-indulgent and eccentric and the over-use and over-complicated (the writing here not the delivery, the delivery is infinitely better here) feel present in the narration of ‘Stereo’ is here too at times if not as much. One never cares for the characters, who come and go a lot which confuses the narrative. Then there is the soundtrack/sound effects, which sometimes was not necessary and often went overboard on the weirdness.

In conclusion, an interesting failure that is still worth a one time watch. 4/10

Even more interesting and complex than “Stereo”, a challenging ride
Crimes of the Future starts out stronger, more dynamic than its predecessor, “Stereo” and indeed throughout the film there is more of an emphasis on “action” though it is a weird, distanced, poorly choreographed sort of action that could almost be at home in “Dr. Who”; but on the whole the film is very similar to “Stereo” both thematically and cinematically, apart from the major obvious difference of color film. Like the previous film it was shot silent and makes use of voice-overs, and like “Stereo” it is an SF film about a fictional scientific institute, in this case dedicated to finding the cause of a worldwide plague that has killed off the majority of women. Like the previous film it stars Ronald Mlodzik, who seems to perfectly convey a 60s Mod vision of an otherworldly character, in this case (apparently) a journalist — or perhaps a physician/scientist, Adrian Tripod, doing a story — or studying patients at an institute — somewhere — afflicted with this strange disease/plague/virus but not yet dead. Like the earlier film it has an unseen (apparently dead in this case) mastermind scientist character, called Antoine Rouge, who may in fact be responsible for the plague and who may also be reborn in another body. This was an extraordinarily dense and difficult work which I can only scratch the surface of on one viewing; I don’t know how much I liked it, but I was awfully impressed at the intellect behind it; like Cronenberg’s first feature, it bears comparison with the early works of Peter Greenaway.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 3 min (63 min)
Budget 20000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director David Cronenberg
Writer David Cronenberg
Actors Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty
Country Canada
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory The Lab, Toronto, Canada
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm