aintnocool

Rating: 3/10 (31 March 2011)

I browsed the comments here, and only found 10% of them that are shocked by the purpose of the movie. Telling you it promotes the use of drugs would make me a conservative bigot. If i tell you the elites using of occultism to reach the same power as the pills, it will make me a lunatic mystic. It seems in now way curious for most of the audience that the movie is portraying humanity as pathetic in its normal condition, and twisted on his unlimited condition - sure the potential depicted is all about intellect, power, money, security, paranoia, and even killing, lying, forgering, cheating in the sake of ultimate power. Never towards love the next one as your brother, evade, create, get mystical, consolidate knowledges, build something useful to the community, Oh yes sorry - I do remember now : those notions are so ass-blessed, boring, naive and uncool! This is the sad story of Hollywood now making you think that the most beautiful and useful things to your everyday life are... uncool. Movie after movie, depicting each one multiple murders, gratuitous violence, the art of faking and the permanent necessity of lying, Hollywood teaches its audience a new way to be cool : * smart -but talking with 500 words top, * megalomaniac -yourself is everything, * competitional -the other is nothing, * materialist -never see the why,the where,the essence (ans so on) All those things said, the choice of De Niro named "Van" something and as a mentor of Mora is plainly representing the deal made by old aristocracy to the uneducated newcomers that plunge into it (ie Clinton, Carter, and some other son of farmers that will learn how to rule the world without ascendancy). As I read it here in the comments, this a Faustian pact, and nobody could be better than De Niro who incarnated Louis Cyphre in Angel Heart. But hey, relax, that's just a movie, no need to be so severe about it, and i guess, neither use your brain to temper a little - would you say...
its total coolness, hey!?