1/5
A billionaire asset manager
wants to have a haircut in a barber shop which is located across the town. The
president of the US is visiting the city so there are traffic jams everywhere.
There is a person who wants to kill the asset manager. His wife, a poet, doesn’t
want to sleep with him. The movie charts the course of this one day when he
meets a motley band of characters en route to the barber and how his world
changes.
This is among the most pretentious movies I remember seeing. While watching the movie
I was wondering only one thing: Does anybody in the world talk like this? The dialogues
are supposed to be full of mystique about the vagaries of life and to concede points
a couple of them are memorable and quotable. But the majority is such tripe
that hearing them would make your head spin.
This earned
less than a million dollars on the box office and while that is no real measure
of how good or bad a movie is, my heart really goes out to those unfortunate
souls who saw this in theater This must be sheer torture for them.
Everybody is
jealous of billionaires. But if this is their life then I for one am really
glad that I am a common Joe.
The acting
is so pedestrian that I was checking the faces of other people whenever they
were in the background.
Yesterday I
saw Spider directed by the same man. How can Cronenberg end up giving us this
is beyond my comprehension?
It was an
achievement of sorts for me to finish this.
. Trust me; this is a ride you want to miss at every cost.
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