Myrna

Myrna confesses that she finds the whole situation a bit strange, but she’s curious about the man sitting in front of her.

Myrna expects that the screens on the tombstones in the cemetery will display a slideshow or digital photograph of the deceased loved one, perhaps a better method than cultures that paste or carve the image of their departed onto the grave.

Cronenberg wisely lingers on this unexpected image without immediately cutting to Myrna’s reaction, a technique he repeats throughout “The Shrouds.”

When he finally cuts back to Myrna’s shock, it makes Karsh’s follow-up line even funnier.

“It has drained away that fluid of grief that was drowning me, killing me,” he tells Myrna, who politely declines his invitation for a second date.