About a third of the way into the film Samantha Morton's character starts a speech about the "art of money making":
All wealth has become wealth for its own sake.
There's no other kind of enormous wealth.
Money has lost its narrative quality,
the way painting did once upon a time.
Money is talking to itself.
I want this car, which I love.
The glow of the screens.
I love the screens.
The glow of cyber-capital.
So radiant and seductive.
I understand none of this.
Does it ever stop? Does it slow down?
Of course not.
Why should it?
It's fantastic.
This speech stood out because it felt like it was describing the film but with the emphasis on the radiant, seductive and incomprehensible rather than the fantastic. Everything about Cosmopolis sounds and looks great but it's incredibly dull and makes no sense. That speech is 35 minutes into the film but it feels like much more time has passed. Towards the end it does feel like things have become a lot more interesting but I suspect most people will have long given up any interest by that point.
March 29, 2015 at 11:39AM
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