'Crimes of the Future' was predicted to cause mass walkouts. The provocateur tells us how he's handling the hysteria:
Here, at Cannes, David Cronenberg digs deep into how the passing decades since the story’s inception have grown ever more prescient, what makes him uncomfortable, and the idea of returning to the fully-formed world ofI do, I know they’re slightly anomalous, you know? They’re not the usual kind of audience, and now I’m noticing your shoes and I’m saying, Those are not the normal shoes, but I like them! Yeah so, it’s a very unpredictable audience, if any audience is, in fact, predictable.
. Sooner or later, they’ll be a normal part of our bodies. This alternate universe… it's closer to us now than it was then. It might have been considered ‘out there’, but less so now. , you’re seeing a lot more blood, violence, sex than ever before — but to me that’s fine. It means there are fewer controls on artistic expression. Whether you want that or not, well you can switch it off! You have control, it’s not forced on you.
That has not happened! I mean, out of 2,400 people, the capacity of the theatre last night, one person left, and it was me because I was going to pee.
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