In David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux play Saul Tenser and Caprice, a celebrity performance art duo in the near future.
This is a future in which pain has been eliminated from the human body, and surgery has become the dominant fetish among the public.
Because Saul’s body has contracted the unusual biological habit of developing new, random, seemingly useless internal organs — it’s called Accelerated Evolution Syndrome in the film — he and Caprice use an enormous, sophisticated mechanical sarcophagus to remove the organs in front of a paying crowd.
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