Rating of
1.5/4
"Cosmopolis" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 04/08/15
A corporate executive travels the city in search of a haircut while the fabric of capitalist society disintegrates around him. David Cronenberg has always been a purveyor of the existential crisis and here he turns his attention to global capitalism in this satire of the new corporate aristocracy. "Satire" is perhaps a strong word as the film is really just a rather heavy handed analogy of neoliberalism as a stone faced Pattinson travels through the city in his untouchable corporate bubble while the "little people" tear themselves apart. It's a subject I personally find very interesting but I found the forced dialogue, affected performances and drama-devoid plot unbearably pretentious and dull. Cronenberg is clearly attempting a financial "Crash", but without any human connections at all Cosmpolis just irritated me as an exercise in self indulgence.
