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Cold Souls through the eyes of Bitter Balcony


You can read the review at http://www.bitterbalcony.com/content/cold-soul-would-have-helped-make- us-feel-movie-didnt-suck

Here is a snippet for your enjoyment, "'Cold Souls' must have been made by a group of soulless, passionless people. This film gives us the rare treat of watching Paul Giamatti overact – and then try to under act for 101 minutes. The problem is that this treat has gone stale and like most of the candy we tried in Hong Kong, lacks any real flavor.

Giamatti plays Paul, a struggling actor who stumbles upon an ad in the Yellow Pages (people still read these?) decides it would be a good idea go soulless. You read that right: the logic is that an artist would be better at his craft without a soul. Is it us or does this a) not make any sense or b) seem like a process most of Hollywood has gone through? Paul lives without his soul for a while then realizes this isn't the best idea he's had - and blah blah blah."

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Review got that a bit wrong, however--he doesn't stumble across it in the Yellow Pages. He finds the article in the New Yorker and then looks the company up in the phone book to double-check its accuracy.

And for all the technology in the movie, however crude, there is actually a consistent lack of cell phones and computers used. Just sayin.

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