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.
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