Cosmopolis (2012)

Samantha Morton: Vija Kinsky

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• Vija Kinsky : What is the flaw of human rationality?

  Eric Packer : What?

  Vija Kinsky : It pretends not to see the horror and death at the end of the schemes it builds. This is a protest against the future. They won't hold off the future. They want to normalize it, keep it from overwhelming the present. The future is always a wholeness, a sameness, we're all tall and happy there. This is why the future fails. It can never be the cool and happy place we want to make it.

• Vija Kinsky : Destroy the past, make the future.

• Vija Kinsky : People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units. A box, a screen, a keyboard, are melting into the texture of everyday life. Is this not true?

  Eric Packer : Even the word "computer"...

  Vija Kinsky : Even the word "computer" sounds backward and dumb.

• Vija Kinsky : The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.

• Vija Kinsky : This is also the hallmark of capitalist thought: enforced destruction. All industries have to be harshly eliminated. New markets have to be forcibly claimed, and old markets have to be re-exploited. Destroy the past, remake the future.

• Vija Kinsky : [on the protests]  It's unoriginal.

  Eric Packer : What's original?