Infinity Pool (2023) review

Novelist James (Alexander Skarsgård) goes on vacation with his rich wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) to the (fictitious) nation of Li Tolqa (which is actually Croatia), they have dinner with actress Gabi (Mia Goth) and her much older husband Alban (Jalil Lespert), leave the resort (despite warnings not to), get drunk and on the drive back James accidentally hits and kills a local, for which the punishment is paying a large fine and allowing himself to be "cloned" so that the deceased man's sons can stab it to death.  This is the third feature by Brandon (son of David) and I'm convinced he either (a.) doesn't know how to develop a narrative or (b.) doesn't care to (it could be both): scenes from seemingly different genres (sci-fi, horror, crime, pornography) are stuck together almost at random and the "trick" of the movie ("doubling") gets thoroughly abused ... even if it doesn't make much (if any) sense (why would a country capable of reproducing humans be so desperate for money?).  In the beginning when Goth says she 'specializes in failing at everything' - and proceeds to "struggle" slicing a roll in half - was Cronenberg subconsciously referring to himself?