Cronenbergs digital world, a movie designed to not be liked. A character who floats above the plains of reality, Eric is a surreal figure and an icon of rationale, observing the world around him from a level above, emotionless, robotic, stiff. There's so many different pieces of commentary about the state of the world, economy, capitalism, the 1%, society, ego, how life is a poison and if you succeed well enough it will poison you. Such a distinguished style here that I find so intriguing, there's a subtle 80s techno score that sort of lives beneath the movie that is so brilliant. Really think this is one of Cronenbergs best movies.

Quite the underrated Cronenberg flick. This is the first movie in Pattinson’s career switch up and it’s a beautiful thing to see. I don’t care if lots of people don’t like this or think Pattinson is bad in it or whatever, they are all wrong. Pattinson plays his part as the disillusioned rich boy so well. His character seems to show little emotion and has a very determined mindset, while also being somewhat naive, curious, and confused about the world as a whole. I just love the acting in this, Sarah Gadon is also super good and compliments Pattinson’s emotionless performance eerily well. Even though most of the characters in this seem to lack emotion, they talk A LOT and have many thought provoking discussions. I really liked seeing Pattinson hanging around with a new character in nearly every scene. The discussions varied from the economy to sex and from the future to life itself. Capitalism is a core theme in this and there’s a lot to be said about it. Pattinson’s lifestyle is just so over the top and consists of daily doctor check ups and things of that nature, I mean he literally talks about installing a gun range in his house, he’s filthy rich. There are anarchists that vandalize his limo, repeated talks of the yuan, and a very intriguing conversation between Pattinson’s character and a guy who wants to kill him played by Paul Giamatti. I found that discussion to be very good. There are quite frankly people all around us at EVERY single moment working, slaving away for the idea of capitalism. Yet, Giamatti contradicts himself a few times, thus revealing how evil humans truly are. His main motivation behind wanting to kill Pattinson is just to be remembered for something. However, he tries to make himself believe that the other things he talks about, such as Pattinson being one of the biggest problems with capitalism, are the reasons for wanting to kill him. Anyway, I love the artificial look of this, Cronenberg’s usual inclusion of sex/eroticism, Pattinson’s acting, and of course the very end that fades to black at the perfect moment. It’s also worth noting that this is quite funny at times and is written in such an inconceivably brilliant manner. I love you Cronenberg. Pattinson went through ALL that just because he wanted a haircut. It doesn’t get much better than this.

Cosmopolis is one of Cronenberg's most fascinating project. It doesn't make sense and at times it seems absolutely banking of coincidence but, for the most part, there seems to be in servuce of some sort of messagr regarding the pirvileged man and the rest of society as well as an examination of society. At times, there is a ton of fantastic symbolism and scenes and others seem more "throw it in just because", but Cronenberg's eye for weird shit as well as the performances make Cosmopolis that interesting despite it's deep flaws. Curious if the book is like this? Need more Pattinson and Cronenberg collaborations.

Played on loop at my hotel in Istanbul. Rlly made me want Robert Pattinson for Batman