Movie Details
| Title: | Antiviral | |
| Director: | Brandon Cronenberg | |
| Year: | 2012 | |
| Genre: | Science Fiction | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.24.12 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.24.12 | Alamo South Lamar | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2012 First film from David Cronenberg's son. It's suitably early-Cronenbergian. Filled with Body issues. The central conceit though I don't quite accept. In the future, people are so taken with celebrity that they're not only willing but it's considered a luxury to ingest diseases that celebrities have had. So a guy gets a Total Recall-esque sales pitch except for instead of a memory-implant of a vacation you get herpes!? Also, skin and muscle cells from celebrities are cultured and sold as steaks for people to eat. I suppose if you can accept that, you'd have a pretty solid little mystery type movie on your hands. There's some stuff involving blood and viruses and cool sci-fi tech to genetically modify stuff and they use a kind of cool idea where each bug has an identifiable "face" in the form of creepy blurry photographs of people's faces. You also get a movie where the main character is completely passive the entire time and a kind of weak ending that I didn't completely understand. It's certainly not without merits and the visual look of the film is impeccable, but I spent the entire thing thinking "wait, people WANT to be sick?" I get that it's social commentary but still... I found the premise too much of a stretch. |
