He knows instinctively and instantly, what to do in any given situation thrown at him. The central situation which serves as the conceit in Cosmopolis isn’t a straightforward one, but it’s more about Packer’s response to it. The city, “his City”, is completely gridlocked and practically immobile because of the merging of three important events: a Presidential motorcade, a huge funeral for a rap singer and an anti-globalisation protest. Despite this though, Packer had already decided what he wanted to do, cross town to get a haircut from a barbershop that had been there since he was a child, by a barber who has been cutting his hair just as long. His experience, along with his armed bodyguards, that’s what he sets out to accomplish, the armour-plated car crawled its way through the city streets, prowling, trapped in endless time, in an everlasting
He knows instinctively and instantly, what to do in any given situation thrown at him. The central situation which serves as the conceit in Cosmopolis isn’t a straightforward one, but it’s more about Packer’s response to it. The city, “his City”, is completely gridlocked and practically immobile because of the merging of three important events: a Presidential motorcade, a huge funeral for a rap singer and an anti-globalisation protest. Despite this though, Packer had already decided what he wanted to do, cross town to get a haircut from a barbershop that had been there since he was a child, by a barber who has been cutting his hair just as long. His experience, along with his armed bodyguards, that’s what he sets out to accomplish, the armour-plated car crawled its way through the city streets, prowling, trapped in endless time, in an everlasting