Turned this off after 45 minutes to do something more enjoyable, like sit in a bathtub full of hard boiled shit.

— how old are you?
— 41.
— a prime number.
— but not an interesting one.

but n² + n + 41 is the most fecund prime-generating quadratic of its magnitude, and this is the most fecund film of its generation.

(‘i am your chief of theory.’)

it’s also my favourite batman movie.

‘you wanted me to be a helpless robot soldier, and all i could be was helpless.’

with every rewatch it gets closer to being my favourite of all.

There is no greater, shall we say, diagnosis, of the world today in movies than this.

he really wanted that haircut

21st century living - the whole of the world abstracted into singular screens and sounds, all while driving in a single line.

"My prostate is asymmetrical."

Riots going on and there's certain people only concerned about getting their next haircut. Why does that sound familiar?

An exhausting dialogue-driven film that's not only pretentious, but ends up going absolutely nowhere. Not for me, apparently. Pattinson was pretty good though.

Space and time corrode while a man suicidally searches the meaning of his prostate and Yuan in a digitopia.

charges: watching a movie for a hot actor
verdict: guilty as fuck

totalmente ruim e esquecível

I knew this guy in college who was really into Don Delillo, and watching this movie was like getting sexually harassed by him for two hours.

There is a 5 minute scene where Robert Pattinson has a conversation about currency whilst getting a fully nude prostate exam in his limo.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

filme sem logica

I am still wrapping my head around this and probably will be for a while.  The dialogue caught me off guard at first, but it quickly became hypnotizing. I felt just a little bit like I did watching Lars Von Trier’s Dogville, mainly in the sense that it feels so much like a stage play and is so dialogue driven.  It’s really quite complex and thought provoking.  I especially love the monologues with Samantha Morton and Paul Giamotti.  I may be a little biased because I’m obsessed with David Cronenberg, but I think this is brilliant and misunderstood.  I am gonna have to watch this several times to fully grasp it and I think I need to read the book as well!i

Audio Commentary

My first impression is that it’s Cronenberg’s most inaccessible film (although I have yet to watch Naked Lunch which I haven’t seen in years and remember nothing about.) This is an adaptation from the book by Don DeLillo. It definitely feels like an adaptation with fast-paced and elaborate dialogue. Decidedly novel-like with pastry assassins, gun-wielding barbers and anti-capitalist rat-mobs. The look is intentionally artificial with green screens and CGI blood. While it took a while to become acclimated to the style, I found myself settling in and plucking remarkable bits of insight and brilliance among the confusion.

I need to sit with this for a while before I’m happy with a star rating so this is subject to change. At the moment this did not resonate with me like most Cronenberg but I can see that changing.

A+

"This is a protest against the future."

Cronenberg's all-encompassing identification of the modern world and its sensible meaninglessness. A capitalist apocalypse and consequently the culmination of its dread. Faces become a constant reoccurrence.

La fui a ver al cine porque la presentaba el productor, Paulo Branco. Y la verdad, por una parte, estuve pensando todo el rato que estaba a pocos metros de un señor que había trabajado con Cronenberg, el cual ha trabajado con Elias Koteas, el cual ha trabajado con mi nuevo Dios Malick. Osea que con eso estaba contento.
Por otra parte el señor era portugués, y yo no sé portugués, y tenía una voz de portugués súper grave y hablaba sin sangre como buen portugués y me estaba quedando bastante dormido.
Así que cuando empezó la peli fue un subidón.
Pero luego se desinfla ella sola, es malilla y anticlimática, aunque con algún momentillo. Y consiguió que no me quedara dormido so...
Cosmpolis 1 - Paulo Branco 0.

I don’t wish for every movie to be like this but I really enjoyed this as an experiment in filmmaking. Long takes in long sequences, packed with quick dialogue, in almost one location, with a bunch of Canadian actors and some stars of European art cinema popping up to chat with a literal vampire about the state of the world, his money, his prostate, the future and who it always leaves behind. Hypnotic and baffling at the same time.