There is an interesting John Cusak interview on Bullzeye.com right now, "A Chat with John Cusak", that is worth a weekend read. The interview tackles the political theme and cinematic makeup of Cusak's new movie "War, Inc.", which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City last month and will open in theaters tonight. It is also the movie I have personally nominated for the Coolest Title Award at the Brian's Imagination Awards Ceremony this June.
The part of the interview that really stuck with me (besides when Cusak lied and said that Hillary Duff is "really smart and has a huge, big future ahead of her.") is when the Bullzeye journalist asks Cusak about his character's personality, and in Cusak's causal way of ranting he includes: "...there is something about living in a mercenary age that is kind of soul-numbing."
Genius.
What struck me about the statement is that I have been on a huge kick lately of trying to label the "age" of time where we currently reside; how it might be categorized long after we're gone, and I think Mr. Being John Malkovich might have actually nailed it by using the term "Mercenary Age". It's not that "Mercenary Age" is any more appropriate than the "Internet Age" or "Generation Debt", or any of the clever little titles applied to our current blip in history, but it is a term that says a lot about capitalism and the general outlook of contemporary society's world economy. Plus I hadn't hear it yet.
Anyway, the interview is good stuff. Cusak has a way with tangents that I can really relate with and have come to appreciate.
