David Cronenberg's New Film "Cosmopolis" - The Quantified Life Is Not Worth Living
RU Sirius
2012-08-29 00:00:00
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Packer/Pattision is determined to make it across New York City in the midst of traffic chaos caused by a presidential motorcade, to get a haircut, but not, as we will discover, any haircut.

Impeccably dressed, physically perfect, emotionally smooth, and despite a series of sexual encounters during this single day with beautiful female subordinates — Packer’s world, until today, is nothing but data.

At the beginning of the film, we see massive data flows zipping around a small computer screen operated by a hacker employee, and we understand that his world of unfailing predictions based on this data has been disrupted by an error that threatens him with massive financial losses.  

But Packer, despite the seeming practicality of the bad day he is facing, is more interested in his existential situation.  He’s having a crisis of meaning and of feeling.




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