Robert Pattinson Praises 31%-Rated David Cronenberg Flick He Made 13 Years Ago: 'So Beautiful'
After The Twilight Saga, this bold movie became one of the first proofs that Robert Pattinson is a brilliant actor.
As soon as Robert Pattinson said goodbye to the vampire Edward from Twilight, he began his journey through auteur cinema – and it was quite successful.
In 2012, when the last Twilight movie was released, the actor showed a serious attitude and turned into a millionaire in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.
At the time, critics and viewers perceived the film as ambivalent as possible – the film has 67% and 31% respectively on Rotten Tomatoes. However, considering the actor's brilliant filmography today, Cosmopolis deserves a revision.
Robert Pattinson Has Nothing But Praise for David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis
Apparently, Robert himself feels the same way. In a recent interview with Technikart, the actor admitted that he still admires Cosmopolis:
“I love Cosmopolis. Don DeLillo's writing is sublime, it's as powerful as the lyrics of a song. When I got the script, I just wanted to read it out loud because the language is so beautiful.”
Cosmopolis, thanks to Pattinson's acting, became a true portrait of a modern society filled with hatred and indifference.
What Is Cosmopolis About?
In the morning, 28-year-old billionaire Eric Packer gets into a limousine. His task is to cross Manhattan – the streets are jammed with traffic due to a meeting of the US President and the funeral of a famous rapper.
His destination is a barbershop. He stops along the way – to meet with his wife, mistresses, lunatics, business partners and financial analysts. Eric is threatened by probable bankruptcy, as well as by an unknown madman.
Cosmopolis Was Long Considered Impossible to Adapt for the Screen
The original novel of the same name by Don DeLillo was considered impossible to film. The philosophical and social components of the novel were only a small part of the problems faced by an enthusiast who wanted to make an adaptation.
First of all, the director should somehow keep the viewer in front of the screen, while the story does not extend beyond the interior of a limousine stuck in an endless traffic jam in the center of a metropolis.
But David Cronenberg undertook this ambitious task – a famous master of filming the unfilmable managed to compress one day of the protagonist's fall into one hour, adding his own disappointment with the world around him.
Cosmopolis Now Seems to Be a Bold Experiment for Both Pattinson and Cronenberg
Many viewers were seriously put off by the semantic overload of Cosmopolis at the time, but even the film's biggest haters agreed that the lead actor did a truly brilliant job.
And the movie itself, more than ten years later, is seen as a radical experiment rather than a resounding failure. Although Cronenberg departs from his beloved body horror in Cosmopolis, he continues to explore the psychology of personality and its pathologies – and he does so perfectly, as always.
