Cosmopolis

 

Not a big Cronenberg fan but after being impressed with Dangerous Methods, I gave this a shot. I liked the running visual from within the heavily fortified stretch limo that show the outside world silently and slowly passing by. The overall theme of Wall Street=bad, permeates the storyline with lead character Eric portrayed as the slimey, got-it-coming viper that we've all been programmed to dispise, because, there are no other kind. Vintage Cronenberg followers, and, actually, much of the worlds population, will appreciate the one graphic scene where a man being interviewed on television is horribly attacked with a knife repeatedly and, as I say, graphically, being gutted into his eye. That bit of thrill being dispensed, we return to the philosophical agenda on hand via Cronenbergs' pen, that sums up the bleak and endless, and inevitable end of Capitalism(everyone's current love-to-hate baby) graciously spelled out by Eric's idea's councelor Samantha Morton. Eric's free-fall includes urinating, standing up in his stretch to blowing the brains out of his trusty body guard(an incredible Christopher Walken clone). I'm glad I saw this, just so I know what it is, but others will revel in its technically complicated, timely and depressing scenario. Back to basics then for DC with DM being an uncomplicated, dated and interesting pass-over.     8/27/12