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"To make man live in a state of perpetual intoxication." The driving mechanism in this morbid and twisted journey is triggered by a mad and sick doctor. A doctor who chose the wrong guinea pig...
With his first and controversial film distributed internationally, David Cronenberg, a specialist in body horror as early as 1975, imprints on film a tremendous physical and psychological assault. Cronenberg digs, digs deep and finds the Beast.
The exploration leads to the discovery of something that spreads like a disease, something that feeds on perversion, morbidity, and inhumanity. Increasing its scope more and more. Impulses are generated and pushed to the extreme, utterly destructive instincts that simply go beyond, ultimately annihilating what they were supposed to create. The concept of "Thanatos" lacks its opposite.
Here we are far from some of the surreal and metaphysical digressions that make Cronenberg's work as deep as it is unsettling. This is a dry and raw work that exudes anguish and nihilism from every corner.
In short, here is a director probably still unripe and distant from the existentialist complexity of his later works but already endowed with a certain depth, clear ideas, and an effective representational and symbolic skill. Disturbing like few others.
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