{"id":17542,"date":"2025-05-26T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17542"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:09:49","slug":"the-shrouds-2024-david-cronenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17542","title":{"rendered":"The Shrouds (2024, David Cronenberg)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making up Vincent Cassel as Cronenberg and having him mourn his late wife could&#8217;ve gone so hard into self-indulgent territory but instead this soft dialogue drama (with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15072\">Crimes<\/a><\/em> lighting and lots of handheld images-on-screens) gradually careens into paranoid techno-thriller territory with plenty of sex and hardly any murder.  Ends with nothing resolved, in the middle of a dream sequence.  Short but powerful bursts of Howard Shore music which have either introduced new sounds to his toolkit, or else the Movieland&#8217;s speakers have blown out.  Diane Kruger plays the dead wife (missing an arm in dream\/flashback), and her conspiracy-horny sister, and the AI built\/puppeted by the sister&#8217;s ex-husband Guy Pearce.  Choice lines about sex and flesh and surgery, and Vince (a supposed visionary who outsourced everything and takes no real action here) is told he&#8217;s made his career out of bodies.  Japan and China and Korea and Iceland and Hungary all figure in.  Need to watch this two or three more times.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/shrouds1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/shrouds2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/shrouds3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making up Vincent Cassel as Cronenberg and having him mourn his late wife could&#8217;ve gone so hard into self-indulgent territory but instead this soft dialogue drama (with Crimes lighting and lots of handheld images-on-screens) gradually careens into paranoid techno-thriller territory with plenty of sex and hardly any murder. Ends with nothing resolved, in the middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,455,135,418,3399,494,1100,1829,1481],"class_list":["post-17542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-david-cronenberg","tag-death","tag-diane-kruger","tag-dreaming","tag-guy-pearce","tag-missing-limb","tag-vincent-cassel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17577,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions\/17577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}