Cosmopolis: This Film Made my Head Hurt

To start things off let me say that I still don't know what the plot to this film is.  We have Robert Pattinson as a rich currency speculator, I think, who uses his limo as his office and it's about his interactions on his way to a barber.  For a film that takes place in a single day there is so much that goes on, from the President coming to town to Pattinson fucking random women since his wife, who's an odd duck, won't have sex with him, to talking to a crazed Paul Giamatti.  I guess that the director, David Cronenberg, wanted the characters to seem distant and not like most people because I couldn't relate to a single person in this film.  The dialogue that is used between Pattinson and his wife seems to be two different languages and somehow they understand one another yet I couldn't get why they were together besides it made sense monetarily.  The use of "The Rat" by both the rich, Pattinson, and the anarchists seems to be only to draw similarities between the two since they seem to be two completely different creatures.  One does everything from his state of the art limo and the other parades through town carrying dead rats.  At one point I thought, and was hoping, that Pattinson was seeing something within the anarchist's movement yet it just turned out to be simple amusement  in that they threw rats at people in a restaurant.  In all I'd say there is no redeeming qualities in any of the characters and if the film had ended in a massacre at least there would've been some amusement.  If anyone can tell me what Cronenberg was trying to get at or better yet what Don DeLillo was getting at with his novel that this was based on I would appreciate it because I saw no ties throughout the film and I tried to gather some form of plot through the dialogue but all I could get was this was a waste of celluloid.

Let's Continue Shall We

I know that I won't be graded and that most of these will now go unread however I'm going to sporadically review films and try to get discussions on them from any and all readers.  Hopefully you will enjoy these as much as I did reviewing them.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

         

           The way Stephen Chbosky brings the characters to life in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” makes them seem real.  They are fully thought out with their own unique voices, feelings, and personalities.  This was a movie in which I became emotionally invested with almost all of the characters, main and secondary.  The main story is one of fitting in yet it is even broken down into the intricacies of the interrelationships involved in trying to fit in.  The main character of Charlie, played by Logan Lerman, is a character who I felt like I had so much in common with, such as always feeling like he’s on the outside looking in, that deep inside he may be crazy, and the idea that he doesn’t deserve love.  The idea that “we only accept the love we feel we deserve” isn’t just felt by Charlie but is felt by all of the main, and some of the secondary, characters.  The emotions that I felt with this film reminded me of the way the film “Garden State” makes me feel to this day whenever I watch it.  I feel as though throughout all of film the characters that aren't the norm or the ones with peculiarities make for better character development which is something that this film has plenty of.   This mixture of incredible development and an intriguing story gives this film an enduring quality in that just about anyone can find a character to sympathize with.