David Cronenberg Says Overturning Roe v Wade Is the Real Body Horror: ‘U.S. Has Gone Completely Insane’
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film WriterDavid Cronenberg attended the Cannes press conference for his film “Crimes of the Future” and called the United States “completely insane” for potentially overturning Roe v.
Wade, which has kept basic abortion rights legal since its 1973 ruling. The director’s new film, which is a return to his body horror roots, addresses “who owns who’s body,” Cronenberg said.“I did write [the script] 20 years ago but you could feel, even then, that this was coming,” Cronenberg said. “A kind of oppressive ownership and control.
It’s the constant in history, that somewhere in the world that wants to control its population. That means, once again, body is reality.
You control people’s bodies — that’s speaking, expressing themselves, that’s control.” “In Canada, we think everybody in the U.S.
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