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Here, religion brought by Spanish colonisers in the 16th Century has become woven into the very fabric of society, and given a distinctly Filipino intensity and colour.

The problem, though, is that the brick-coloured goo, which is dried into a powder, looks distinctly unappetising – even less appetising than the freeze-dried fare that astronauts currently have to put up with.

“I wanted to be proposed to, so I think I very distinctly carved out what I wanted and she nailed it,” she said in 2021.

It’s a jarring, distinctly funny transition, one you might not initially expect from one of Cronenberg’s most personal films.

The distinctly human touch in this show pierces the soul in a way nothing made solely by algorithmic ones and zeroes ever could.