Written on the body

Crimes, in progress

For me, the most disturbing of the futuristic images in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future are not the bloody body-mod ones that have become a perverse come-on for the movie, as seen by the stories circulated in the press of walkouts at its Cannes Film Festival opening (stories Cronenberg himself pimped, but which appear to have been overblown). It…