Nicely, the fictional setting and vibe of “Infinity Pool” is impressed by true occasions. However the act of “doubling” is solely fictional and is Cronenberg’s personal invention — the author/director was very clear about that. Nonetheless, as Cronenberg tried to conceptualize the remainder of the movie’s setting across the idea of “doubling,” he thought again to at least one “unusual trip” he took to the Dominican Republic:

“I would been writing a brief story concerning the doubling executions particularly. Within the movie’s world, there is a loss of life penalty for sure crimes, however for those who’re wealthy you possibly can pay to be cloned and watch ‘your self’ be killed as an alternative. As I began attempting to increase it into a movie, I saved remembering this unusual trip to the Dominican Republic that I had a few years in the past. It was the one time I went to a conventional all-inclusive resort. I received talked into going there. It was completely bizarre as a result of they’d bus you in, in the midst of the evening so that you would not see any of the encompassing space. You’d be dropped off immediately right into a resort compound, which was surrounded by [a] razor-wire fence and fully contained. You were not allowed to depart the compound.”

As we’re zeroed in on James’s perspective as a person who married into cash, Cronenberg attracts consideration to some issues that break the phantasm of tranquility and peace. Within the first act of “Infinity Pool,” it is established that the upper-class folks vacationing within the resort see Li Tolqua as “uncivilized” and “third-world.” It’s seen as a harmful act to depart the confines of the resort, which is guarded by an electrical fence. When James is arrested and sees the outskirts of Li Tolqua within the daytime, it is a complete completely different world from the resort bubble.