{"id":1489774,"date":"2022-05-24T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489774"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:45:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:45:34","slug":"the-u-s-is-completely-insane-director-david-cronenberg-comments-on-roe-v-wade-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-u-s-is-completely-insane-director-david-cronenberg-comments-on-roe-v-wade-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The U.S. Is Completely Insane\u2019: Director David Cronenberg Comments On \u2018Roe V. Wade\u2019 At Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-u-s-is-completely-insane-director-david-cronenberg-comments-on-roe-v-wade-at-cannes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Canadian director is weighing in on the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade in the United States, claiming the country is \u201ccompletely insane.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Cronenberg, who\u2019s best known for the films \u201cCrash,\u201d \u201cThe Naked Lunch,\u201d and \u201cA History of Violence,\u201d made the comments while debuting his new project \u201cCrimes of the Future,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/may\/24\/the-us-is-completely-insane-david-cronenberg-on-roe-v-wade-at-cannes-film-festival\">The Guardian<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Canada \u2026 we think everyone in the U.S. is completely insane. I think the U.S. has gone completely bananas, and I can\u2019t believe what the elected officials are saying, not just about Roe v. Wade, so it is strange times,\u201d the 79-year-old Toronto native said.<\/p>\n<p>Cronenberg further compared relations between Canada and the U.S. to feelings Russians have toward Ukraine. \u201cWe talk about Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, but then south of the border in Canada we feel the vibrations that are weirdly similar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrimes of the Future\u201d is not an explicitly pro-abortion film, but it does tackle the concept of \u201cwho owns who\u2019s body,\u201d the publication noted. The director explained how he conceived the project twenty years ago and feels it\u2019s even more relevant for modern audiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could feel, even then, that this was coming. A kind of oppressive ownership and control. It\u2019s the constant in history, that there\u2019s somewhere in the world that wants to control its population. That means, once again, body is reality. You control people\u2019s bodies \u2013 that\u2019s speaking, expressing themselves. That\u2019s control,\u201d Cronenberg explained.<\/p>\n<p>The movie stars Viggo Mortensen playing Saul Tenser, a man who is \u201cin eternal discomfort because his body is rebelling against him,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/crimes-of-the-future-review-david-cronenberg-viggo-mort-1848963602\">review<\/a> by The A.V. Club. His partner Caprice (L\u00e9a Seydoux) removes unnatural organs from Saul during live performance art ceremonies. The review explains that the setting and time of the film are very unclear, and the entire effect of the movie is unsettling.<\/p>\n<p>The couple appears to live in an underground bunker, with Saul sleeping in what looks like a giant upside-down beetle. \u201cNothing about it makes a lick of sense, but there\u2019s a surreal flow to it all that, in the moment, carries you from scene to scene,\u201d the review continues.<\/p>\n<p>The Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/05\/crimes-of-the-future-review-cannes-david-cronenbergs-crimes-of-the-future-kristen-stewart-lea-seydoux-viggo-morgensen-1235030386\/\">review<\/a> was favorable, saying, \u201c\u2026What could have been a grossly and even off-puttingly gruesome display of torturous experiments and corporal corruption has been treated with an unexpectedly light and even playful hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian noted that \u201cCrimes of the Future\u201d is seen as a front-runner at Cannes for winning the coveted Palme d\u2019Or award, the top prize for the entire film festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian director is weighing in on the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade in the United States, claiming the country is \u201ccompletely insane.\u201d\u00a0 David Cronenberg, who\u2019s best known for the films \u201cCrash,\u201d \u201cThe Naked Lunch,\u201d and \u201cA History of Violence,\u201d made the comments while debuting his new project \u201cCrimes of the Future,\u201d per The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1489798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}