Crimes of the Future (2022) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show you
a horror-sci-fi film: "Crimes of the Future"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a young boy playing at the beach near the water's edge. Further into the sea,
a futuristic spaceship is docked on the water. The boy's mother is on the balcony of the house,
overlooking the beach; and she tells him that he shouldn't eat anything he finds on the shore.
After playing, the boy goes home and brushes his teeth. He spits inside the plastic trash
bin in the restroom, and then begins eating it. He's chomping on it heartily, and his
mother catches him. She doesn't say anything, but just accompanies her son to the bed. When he's
sound asleep, she goes to him with a pillow in her hands, and smothers him with it. The boy struggles
to breathe, and calls out for his mother, but she just presses the pillow into his face harder.
The mother doesn't really show any grief or remorse. She just sits on the toilet after
she killed the boy. She picks up the phone, and calls her ex-husband and the boy's father,
telling him that she will be leaving the boy's corpse alone on the beach house,
and he can pick it up. She spitefully says that she doesn't consider the boy to be their son,
because he's a disgusting creature, alluding that the boy's ability to ingest plastic,
is what makes him a monster. The mother only cries after she hangs up the phone.
The Father arrives hours later, and cries over the dead body of the boy.
Elsewhere, a man named Saul, is sleeping inside a weird cocoon-like contraption, that's connected
to his body. This machine is used to keep him alive, because he has a rare evolutionary disease.
His wife, Caprice, comes inside the room and wakes him up. He weakly says that something's wrong with
the machine, because he's been in pain all night. Caprice informs him that the tests they conducted
last night, revealed that he's growing a new organ inside his body, which might be
why he's been experiencing discomfort. Caprice inserts a black tube inside Saul's
stomach, to take a closer look at the new organ. It's still too early to tell, but she thinks it's
similar to an adrenal gland. Saul's disease pushes his body to keep on regenerating vestigial organs,
or organs that once functioned inside human beings' bodies, but lost their purpose due
to evolutionary change. Because of his disease, Saul regularly suffers from several digestive
and pulmonary problems, which is why he needs the assistance of machines.
Case in point, Saul needs to be strapped to another machine that resembles a chair.
It feeds him every time he has to eat. However, it's very uncomfortable; and Saul
doesn't find eating enjoyable anymore. Later that night, Caprice takes Saul to the
office of the National Organ Registry. On the way, they pass by the Father on the street. Inside the
shabby office, they meet the head investigator and his colleague, Timlin. The investigator
explains that the government is concerned about the advanced evolution of human bodies
in recent years, due to pollution and climate change. Many people don't feel pain anymore.
The government established the organ Registry, in order to track these mutations in humans.
They summoned Saul because of his condition. The nervous and twitchy Timlin probes Caprice
about her relationship with Saul. Caprice responds that they are a performance artist couple. Their
shows involve Caprice surgically removing the vestigial organs that Saul grows inside his body,
using a device and ink. They regularly perform in front of a live audience. Caprice also reveals
that she and Saul first met when he was an injured soldier, and she was a trauma surgeon.
Through their love, they discovered their passion for the arts in organs.
Saul is once again strapped to a table. Timlin and the investigator examine his newly-sprouted
organ with the device. He explains that they will be marking the organ with a registration tattoo,
so they can keep track of it. He also adds that when people started acquiring the ability to grow
organs in their bodies, it seems that they can pass on the ability to their offspring as well.
The government now wants a more stringent registration of the mutations, because the
children are arguably not human already. Caprice tries to film the examination with the camera
in her ring; but the uptight Timlin tells her that it's not allowed. Before they leave, Saul
invites the two of them to their next show. Two technicians from the company that produced
Saul's bed and chair, arrive at Saul's apartment to adjust the machines. They gush over the autopsy
unit that Saul has, commenting that these units haven't been produced, since before
they were born. Caprice explains that she uses the autopsy unit during their performances.
The night of their next show arrives. The audience fills the dark theater. Both technicians, Timlin,
and the investigator are in attendance as well. On the stage, Saul is naked inside the autopsy unit.
Caprice is dressed in a sexy dark red dress, and a circle of buttons glimmer under her chest.
Her hands seductively caress the buttons, controlling the limbs of the autopsy-unit as they
split Saul open. The limbs extricate the vestigial organ, with Caprice's freshly-inked tattoo on it;
and the crowd cheers. The Father is also watching the show. He doesn't say anything,
but merely pulls out a candy bar and eats it. After the show, Timlin approaches Caprice and
Saul. The couple is lounging on chairs, with Saul bundled in a heavy dark cloak.
Timlin leans in uncomfortably close to Saul, and tells him that watching their
surgical performance aroused her, and she likens surgery to an intimate act.
Saul grins at her, and feels proud that their performance elicited that reaction.
Caprice doesn't like how Timlin is unabashedly flirting with her husband, and she frowns.
Elsewhere in the theater, a man eats the candy bar that the dead boy's Father had
left on the counter. the man takes a bite. but moments later, he chokes and dies.
Timlin and the investigator are interviewed by a detective from the police department.
He's interested in the case of Saul. The detective doesn't really believe that
what Saul and Caprice are doing is art. Timlin defends them, by saying that Saul takes control
of his disease through art. The investigator comes up with a theory that Saul seems to be
willing the creation of new organs. The next morning, Saul and Caprice
discover that he's growing a new organ already. Usually, the interval is longer;
but recently, it has been speeding up. Saul is delighted to know this, and comments that she
and Caprice just need to do more shows. Saul attends the show of a fellow performance
artist. The man has ears sprouting all over his body, growing like mushrooms,
and his body like a tree trunk. A woman approaches Saul there. She works for a biotechnology company,
and she suggests that Saul consult with a cosmetic surgeon regarding his condition.
When Saul steps out into the alley, the dead boy's Father sees him from across the street.
He approaches Saul, and tells him about an idea for a performance. He suggests that Saul
and Caprice perform a live autopsy on the corpse of his son. The Father promises that there will
be a surprise waiting for them inside. Saul runs the idea with Caprice. She agrees;
but they would need to modify the autopsy unit. She lays inside the unit naked,
while Saul controls the buttons, so they can check what they need to modify.
Later that night, Saul slips out of the apartment, and meets with the detective.
It turns out, he's doing undercover work for them. The detective's department is investigating the
rising cases of body modifications. Saul tells him about the invitation to consult with the surgeon,
and the detective agrees that he should pursue that lead. In addition,
he requests to talk with the mother, who killed her son at the beginning of the film.
The two technicians visit the apartment again to tweak the autopsy unit.
Saul visits the surgeon, who recommends that he get a zipper attached to his stomach,
so he can easily show people the vestigial organs he's growing.
Additionally, the surgeon also invites Saul to be a contestant in an underground pageant, for people
who want to show off their growing organs. When he gets home, he shows the new modification
to Caprice. She kneels, and tongue-massages his open stomach to pleasure him.
The next day, Saul goes to the prison to talk with the dead boy's mother. She is adamant that
her son wasn't human but a monster, that was deliberately created by the Father, who is part
of a radical evolutionist group. The members of this group all modified their digestive systems,
so they would be able to ingest plastics. The candy bar that the Father was eating during
the show, was actually made out of toxic waste, which was why the man died after eating it.
At the time, the Father heads to the warehouse, where the evolutionist group is busy manufacturing
the candy bars. He tells his right-hand man that he will be going public soon with
his son's unique ability, and he's expecting that many people will join their cause.
Caprice attends a performance art show, where a beautiful woman gets scars inflicted on her face.
Caprice is intrigued by the brutality and elegance of the act; and the Scarred
Woman invites her to join the after-party. Later that day, she meets Saul. He's surprised
to see that she has come home, with scar modifications on her forehead. Caprice tells
him that she wants to be more open and daring as an artist, and asks Saul if she can lead the
autopsy show they will do. Saul agrees. Saul visits the organ Registry office next.
He first talks with the investigator, who reveals that he's the registrar of the illegal pageant.
The investigator hints that Saul has a great chance of winning in his category.
Saul talks to Timlin next. He asks the mousy girl, if she knows about people being able
to modify their entire digestive system, so they can ingest plastic. Timlin answers
that she has only encountered single organ growths in her career. Afterward,
she tries to seduce Saul with her hormones, but he rebuffs her advances due to her bad hormones.
That night, Caprice and Saul meet with the Father, to discuss his son's autopsy-show.
However, Caprice is apprehensive about cutting open the dead boy in public. But the Father
insists that he needs to make a public statement, to defy the government's efforts to crackdown on
evolutionists. He argues that Saul has spent his life being tortured by the chairs that feed him,
and the bed that adjusts his body for him, when the organs growing inside of him,
is a natural process that shouldn't be hindered. It turns out, The dead boy's Father is presenting
the candy bars as the solution to Saul's digestive problems, implying that his body has evolved due
to the world's environmental decline, and now he's equipped to ingest toxic waste to survive.
Saul meets with the detective again. His new mission is to infiltrate the Father's
evolutionist group. The government has been paying close attention to them, because they
are deviating from being human already. The two female technicians knock on the
surgeon's door. They inform him that they are there to recalibrate his feeding chair,
which is similar to what Saul uses. However, they were actually sent there to assassinate
the surgeon. The technicians drill holes in his head, and leave him in the feeding chair.
Caprice and Saul meet with the dead boy's Father again. This time, he tells them more about the
group. He reveals that they have a vast network of evolutionists around the world, who believe that
human bodies have to evolve to keep up with the destruction, made by modern technology.
As part of their belief, they all had extensive surgery, to make their digestive systems capable
of ingesting plastic and toxic waste as nourishment. The dead boy was special
because he was the first human born with a natural digestive system, capable of digesting plastic.
The Father wanted to show him to the world as a symbol of hope. But since his wife killed the boy,
the Father decided that he will just do a public autopsy, so the people will see what
the boy's digestive system looked like. The show begins. The boy's corpse is inside the
autopsy unit, being presented to the crowd as Caprice gives an emotional narration.
Saul is in the wings controlling the unit's limbs, and cutting the boy's body open.
The investigators and the two technicians are in the audience once more.
But when they reveal the boy's stomach, his digestive system appears to look like a normal
human's, except his organs were rotten, and there are crude tattoos scrawled on them.
The dead boy's Father flees the theater in tears. Despite it not being what they expected,
Caprice seamlessly improvises a dramatic explanation for the boy's digestive system.
The Father sits down on the front steps, and cries. The two technicians come up behind him,
and drill into his head to kill him.
Saul meets with the detective again. This time, he demands the truth behind what happened.
The detective confesses that Timlin replaced the boy's natural digestive system with a normal
human digestive system, in order to prevent the truth about evolution from coming out in public.
Timlin was so eager to do the job, because she wanted to replace Caprice as Saul's partner.
Saul expresses admiration for the Father's cause, signifying that he is dismayed with the police
and the government's repression. It is implied that Saul will not
work undercover for the police again. The next day, Saul is sicker and weaker.
He's struggling with the feeding chair once again. He gets fed up, and opts to try one
of the candy-bars the dead boy's Father made. Caprice tears open the packaging, and feeds
it to him. Moments after he swallows the first bite of plastic, the pain leaves Saul's face,
meaning that he's evolved to be able to digest the toxic candy bars now. The movie ends with Saul
in complete euphoria. Finally, he accepts that the dead boy's Father and his group are right.
Saul doesn't have a disease, but is an evolutionary hope for future humanity.
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