Warning. You may want to skip this one if you are at all squeamish.

A trailer - from which we pulled our blog title - has been released for upcoming Cannes contender Crimes of the Future.

Starring Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings), Leya Sydoux (Spectre, No Time to Die) and Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Underwater), it's set in a future where pain has been eliminated and surgical alteration seems to have become a form of entertainment.

Once the realm of science-fiction, transhumanism - technological enhancement of the human body - is an imminent reality as eg. tech companies explore the possibilities of plugging our brains directly into computers.

It's a topic which hasn't featured prominently in western film and television except for Star Trek's villainous Borg.

Both as entertainment production budgets increase and as real world technology advances in this area we would expect to see more stories which focus on it.

Releasing in the US in June, several Australian sites list the cinema release date of Crimes of the Future as presently unknown, but Flicks.com.au say June 3.

[ Main Image: Crimes of the Future trailer. Credit: Neon via YouTube. ]

Reference

Flicks.com.au. Crimes of the Future. (viewed May 7, 2022).

Horgan, John (October 27, 2021). Should Big Tech’s Plan for a Metaverse Scare Us? Scientific American.

Neon (May 7, 2022). Crimes of the Future - Official Redband Trailer. YouTube.

Wikipedia. Crimes of the Future (2022 film). (viewed May 7, 2022)