Cosmopolis

Although it is not lengthy, this book somehow feels pretty lengthy to me. The topic the characters are discussing and how the story progresses are a bit difficult to read, and I could only got through two thirds of the book before I got distracted by other things. But I would say this is an interesting book after all, to see the world from a total different point of view.

When watching to movie in class, the first thing I noticed is that in the movie, they didn't really show us whether the main character dies at the end or not, while in the book the main character does die. I actually liked the movie's ending, because it left the viewer's a feeling of mystery (a cliffhanger that will never be solved), and it suits the mood of the movie pretty well. I also like the part in the movie when the main character is sitting in the car, it is calm and peaceful compare to the chaos outside, and how the focal length makes the limousine feels really big and empty. The movie is pretty tough to watch, just like the book.

I also notice that, if I didn't remember wrong, the movie doesn't have a lot of background musics or soundtracks. In some ways, it makes the movie even more dull to watch, but I feel like it matches the tone of the movie a bit, because it is not intentionally to be a "popcorn" movie. Without the background musics and with just the ambient sounds, I feel like that could make the audience relate and place themselves in the main character's situation more.

I like the fact that the story happened just in one day, and what the main character wants is just to get a haircut across the city. Although the characters in the book are just discussing the topic of the stock market, I feel like it is also discussing about other topics. There are no middle classes in the book, there are only the rich and the poor, the extremes. Which is kind of relatable to the society nowadays, where the economy class is getting more and more diverse.