Cosmopolis

I liked Cosmopolis in a weird way...

Cosmopolis takes place in the year 2000, in a single day. It follows Eric Packer, a very privileged founder of a big financial company. The story is very direct and sad. I don't think the author saw the limousine as necessarily a car or vehicle, but more a path or journey of destruction.
There must have been a reason why he wanted that haircut at the other side of town. Maybe he wanted to live, do something else than what he does every single day of his life.
Maybe because he was so good at predicting the economy at work, he actually knew he was losing money along the way and knew what he was getting himself into from his first words.

Privilege, a strong topic in this novel and movie. Eric is a young, handsome man, who usually gets what he wants. Surrounded by people outside his world/bubble (limousine) that do not get anything they ask for. Eric becomes more and more curious, exiting his bubble until he finds himself at gunpoint. Privilege works very much like a ladder in this novel/movie. Eric has all the power, but that limits him from doing things he hasn't done before because he has done it all. He wants to feel new things and sometimes the solution is to mix with people with less privilege. 

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