A Most Violent Year

Cronenberg could have made this as the third offering of his as yet unfinished violence trilogy. It reads like a more sophisticated Wolf of Wall street or Scarface in it's take on the examination of capitalism -  greed as the invisible hand that like a medusa midas touch turns everything it grasps for to stone.

It's got the 80's down pat and that reminded me of Scorcese - the Sopranos. it's such a NY state of Mind movie - mostly take place in New Jersey.  You'll understand why people rank on NY as a shithole when you see the locales they use to shoot.

Javarier Bardeem was supposed to be the Oscar Issaac character Abel B?  but he dropped out for some reason, and Jessica Chastain campaigned hard for her boy - they went to acting class together at Juiliard.

Dude is talented man.

so is she.  Looking all Michelle Pfieffer with her blonde drape and armani wardrobe - totally authentic, the fashion house lent them stuff from 1981 after chastain requested, saying she thought her character would only wear Armani.

A Most Violent Year comes out today and this soundtrack song sums it up real well.  I liked it.  Think Sons of Goodfellas or The Sopranos. Dude trying to get on up in the straight world, but it operates just as wicked as the thug life.