Review of Cosmopolis (2012) by James A — 08 Sep 2013
Cronenberg has left us, no more viscera, no more over the top excursions into horror, and has chosen a strange, and more disturbing path. He has chosen to speak in metaphor, because that is what a meta is for.
He alludes and suggests, and is now piling on image and sound and meaning to show something very much like Spider: a world and a man that have fallen apart, and here a failure of will. The film whispers to us like a madman in a raincoat, never an overt threat, just wild half heard and barely understood meandering thoughts babbling out one over another.
In the end, there is a gun held to a head, and Rothko paintings.
This review of Cosmopolis (2012) was written by James A on 08 Sep 2013.
Cosmopolis has generally received mixed reviews.
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