The Shrouds 4K 2024 Ultra HD 2160p
A grieving widower and businessman, Karsh (Vincent Cassel) decides to build special tomb machines to connect with his deceased loved ones. One day, an unknown person desecrates his homemade cemetery, and Karsh sets out to find the vandal. At the same time, the hero rethinks his existence and remembers his deceased wife.
User Review
The main character here is undoubtedly David Cronenberg's alter ego — Vincent Cassel has acquired the director's distinctive physical features. The plot revolves around a cemetery. The protagonist has created an innovative technology that allows him to monitor the body of the deceased located underground. The bodies are wrapped in shrouds equipped with a complex computer system. Relatives can connect at any time and watch their bodies decompose and their bones lie unchanged...
In 2017, David Cronenberg's wife, with whom he had lived most of his life, passed away. And Vincent Cassel's character's wife is also in the grave.
So what is the film about?
There are two main storylines. The protagonist tries to build new relationships with the opposite sex. This proves difficult, as one woman is frightened by his obsession with the afterlife of the dead. The second is his wife's twin sister, whose body he adores. And the third is blind and married to a dying rich client.
The second storyline concerns the graves themselves — one night, several graves were robbed. And the system was hacked. The main character tries to figure out who did it and why, and gradually slides into a paranoid theory that his wife and other dead people were victims of secret innovative medical experiments.
Of course, The Shroud features visual images of body modification characteristic of David Cronenberg's style. But overall, this film is a rather disjointed paranoid thriller, obviously inspired by the author's reflections on what happens to people's bodies after death. David Cronenberg didn't want to say anything special with this film, he just pondered his prospects of being cremated or buried after death, the relationship between personality and body. And he sublimated his fears about the power of medical and technological corporations, adding the ubiquitous environmental agenda to the mix.
The Coffin is a standard film by an elderly filmmaker, which he made for himself, based on his own existential reflections. Moreover, these reflections did not lead to any conclusions — just thoughts about this and that from a tired old man preparing for death.
In short, if you are not a big fan of David Cronenberg, you can safely skip The Ward. It is an uninteresting, unoriginal, loose film on topics that have already been given a much more worthy embodiment in this director's filmography.
Info Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (66.5 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Info Audio
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Info Subtitles
French.File size: 58.12 GB
