It took several hours today to decide on a flight to Porto, in Portugal, in order to walk again on the Camino trail. Perhaps we will make it to Santiago on this one. Flights are expensive in this season – and increasingly immoral. But the only way to reach the European continent from this country is to fly, so it’s either that or stay at home. At least when we reach our destination, our manner of vacation will be environmentally friendly. The trip is planned for September.
There was one film at the Jerusalem film festival that would not have been D or YS’s cup of tea, but which I found interesting, so I saw it now: “Crimes of the Future”, by David Cronenberg. The genre is somewhere between science fiction, horror and fantasy. Elegant and well acted, it is set in a future when the human body is adapting to the environmental crisis by gaining the ability to make evolutionary changes to itself. There is a political movement aiming to speed this process, while police and bureaucrats fear that humanity will mutate into a new species. At the intersection are two performance artists. One of these is growing in his scarred and mutilated belly new organs of unknown function. The couple exploit this capacity in performances of on-stage surgery where the organs are removed, while a wowed audience snaps away and films them. It’s a fascinating and visually impressive movie, though sometimes difficult to watch.