Robert Pattinson Faces Acting Challenge in Cosmopolis
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Sleep failed him more often now, not once or twice a week but four times, five. What did he do when this happened? He did not take long walks into the scrolling dawn. There was no friend he loved enough to harrow with a call. What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.He tried to read his way into sleep but only grew more wakeful. He read science and poetry. He liked spare poems sited minutely in white space, ranks of alphabetic strokes burnt into paper. Poems made him conscious of his breathing. A poem bared the moment to things he was not normally prepared to notice. This was the nuance of every poem, at least for him, at night, these long weeks, one breath after another, in the rotating room at the top of the triplex.
He tried to sleep standing up one night, in his meditation cell, but wasn’t nearly adept enough, monk enough to manage this. He bypassed sleep and rounded into counterpoise, a moonless calm in which every force is balanced by another. This was the briefest of easings, a small pause in the stir of restless identities.
There was no answer to the question. He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic. The palest thought carried an anxious shadow. What did he do? He did not consult an analyst in a tall leather chair. Freud is finished, Einstein’s next. He was reading the Special Theory tonight, in English and German, but put the book aside, finally, and lay completely still, trying to summon the will to speak the single word that would turn off the lights. Nothing existed around him. There was only the noise in his head, the mind in time.
When he died he would not end. The world would end.
Based on this Cosmopolis excerpt by Don DeLillo, it seems that the character of Eric Packer is an intellectual, which, on some level, is the same as that of Robert Pattinson.
With film being a visual medium, and his character confined in the interiors of a limousine for majority of the movie’s duration, Robert Pattinson has to bring an extraordinary amount of stillness in his execution of the character of Eric Packer, where every look in his eye can be intriguingly mysterious and yet unmistakably clear. I do believe Rob’s nuanced performance in Water for Elephants should put him in good stead to face the acting challenges of Cosmopolis.
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