tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post4597333463982439853..comments2024-03-18T03:16:47.773-04:00Comments on Not Just Movies: Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012)Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-1082958082165324852012-12-13T13:55:54.536-05:002012-12-13T13:55:54.536-05:00I've read a good number of Cosmopolis defenses...I've read a good number of <i>Cosmopolis</i> defenses, but I still haven't seen one that communicates exactly what Cronenberg is trying to do, or why the precise effect the film has on the viewer adds up to anything relevant. Your writing is typically evocative, and I definitely sense your enthusiasm, but I still think the general thinking goes like this: "Cronenberg's alienating dialogue and off-putting visuals speak to a world that, through progresses in technology and the continued prominence of commerce as a means of separating groups of people, has become remote from itself." If this is, more or less, what admirers like about the film, I agree that it's a striking conceit, but I think it's also a somewhat lazy one-to-one relationship between form and content that doesn't evolve over the course of the film. Let me know what you think; this one was (obviously) a head-scratcher for me at Cannes, and I'm thinking about revisiting it. Carson Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10164962777812861110noreply@blogger.com