Crimes of the Future (2022) on Netflix
R20221h 47m
Saul Tenser's body grows new organs, and Caprice removes them on stage before an audience. An investigator tracks the pair, and a police unit wants him to infiltrate a group of evolutionists.
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- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb5.8/1047,649 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
Biotechnology has advanced to the point where machines interface with human bodies, and most people no longer feel physical pain or suffer infectious disease, so surgery can be performed on conscious patients in ordinary settings. Saul Tenser is a celebrated performance artist whose accelerated evolution syndrome makes his body grow new organs, and with his partner Caprice he has those organs removed before a live audience. The state's National Organ Registry catalogs and stores newly evolved organs, and its investigator Timlin becomes captivated by his work. Tenser depends on specialized biomechanical devices, including a bed, a machine Caprice uses to operate on him, and a chair that helps him eat. A government police unit wants him to infiltrate a group of radical evolutionists.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Crimes of the Future (2022)
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- David Cronenberg first wrote the script in 1998, and the film was set to begin production in early 2003 under the title Painkillers, with Ralph Fiennes attached to star as Saul Tenser after Nicolas Cage, the first option for the main role, dropped out.
- Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart were among the cast announced in April. Natalie Portman was initially supposed to play Seydoux's part, with Seydoux initially set to play Stewart's role, but Portman was unable to do the film because of conflicts related to COVID-19.
- When Cronenberg picked the project back up years later, he "didn't change a word" of the script since first writing it in 1998.
