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[[caption-width-right:288:[[Film/WallStreet Greed]] is, in this case...[[Creator/DavidCronenberg weird]].]]

->'''Erik''': Look, I'm trying to make contact in the most ordinary ways. To see and hear, to notice your mood, your clothes. This is important. Are your stockings on straight? I understand this at some level. How people look, what people wear.
->'''Elise''': How they smell. Do you mind my saying that? Am I being too wifely? I'll tell you what the problem is. I don't know how to be indifferent. I can't master this, and it makes me susceptible to pain. In other words, it hurts.
->'''Erik''': This is good. We're like people talking. Isn't this how they talk?

''Cosmopolis'' is a 2012 drama film directed by Creator/DavidCronenberg, based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Don [=DeLillo=].

Hermetically sealed in his high-tech stretch limo, financial whiz-kid/gazillionaire Erik Packer (Creator/RobertPattinson) is intent on three things: making a killing on the financial markets, talking his new high society wife into having sex with him, and--most importantly--getting a haircut from his favorite barber on the other side of town. None of these go as planned: the markets kill ''his'' finances, he has sex with every woman ''but'' his wife, and a series of traffic jams, riots, and promises to assassinate him slow Erik's commute to an agonising crawl.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyLongLimousine: Exaggerated and Discussed.
* ActorAllusion: [[Literature/Twilight2005 "You're like someone that has died already, a hundred years ago."]]
* ArcSymbol: Rats. Packer and Chin joke about rats becoming a world currency, anarchists fling dead rats at customers in a restaurant, and rioters in the street carry a papier-mache rat.
* AutoErotica
* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: The movie ends with the assassin standing behind Packer about to shoot him, before the SmashToBlack.]]
* BottomlessMagazines: Averted; [[spoiler:Eric fires the last of his five rounds into his own hand]].
* BigEater: Downplayed, as it's never mentioned outright and Erik himself isn't fat, but he's eating in almost every scene he's in, and much more so than anyone else present.
* ConspicuousConsumption
* CreepyPhysical: Packer gets a prostate exam. ''In his limo.'' While simultaneously having a conversation with his (female) chief of finance.
* CrypticConversation[=/=]OneSceneTwoMonologues: In '''spades'''.
* DeathByMaterialism: [[spoiler:The SmashToBlack ending suggests this will happen.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Packer throughout the entire movie. The scene where the anarchists are protesting outside the limo and his [[spoiler: conversation with the assassin]] stand out though.
** Averted in one scene, where he learns that his favorite rapper has died. He breaks down and cries.
* {{Expy}}: "The Pastry Assassin" character is based on Belgian writer and ''provacateur'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Godin Noël Godin]], who pies famous people (e.g., Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard, and French president Nicolas Sarkozy) as a form of political protest.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: All of the events in this film take place over the course of a single day.
* GroinAttack: Packer kicks the Pastry Assassin in the groin for hitting him with the pie. He seems not to mind.
* IronicEcho: Eric says "Nancy Babich" to his pistol before going into Benno's apartment.
* ItMustBeMine: At one point, Packer is intent on purchasing the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothko_Chapel Rothko Chapel]], despite being told that it's not for sale at any price.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Kendra the bodyguard is clothed in the trailer when she aims the stun gun at Packer. She most assuredly is not clothed in the film.
** It must also be pointed out that the trailers are advertising a very different film than the one that actually hit theaters.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Packer's attempt to manipulate the Chinese currency markets wipes out most of his personal fortune, and possibly others' fortunes as well.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Packer's bodyguard boasts that his pistol has a coded, voice-activated safety. Packer persuades him to demonstrate how it works. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for the bodyguard, he does it when the gun's in ''Packer's hand''. Cue NoRangeLikePointBlankRange BoomHeadshot.]]
* PhraseCatcher: Several characters repeat lines of dialogue multiple times, most notably Elise who repeats "I understand none of it" or some variant at the end of each of her lines.
* PieInTheFace: Packer is pied by a protestor called "The Pastry Assassin".
* PopStarComposer: The Canadian band Metric collaborated with Cronenberg's long-time composer Howard Shore on several of the soundtrack's songs.
* PottyEmergency: Averted: Packer is seen urinating into the limo's pull-out sink.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Packer is so completely obsessed with wealth and business that he has ''no idea'' how to connect with other people, or even act like a normal human being. Just look at the page quote, for God's sake!
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* StaticStunGun: After Packer has sex with his female bodyguard, she teases shooting him with her taser.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Possibly, with the advanced guns and anarchism being commonplace.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While Eric and his chief of finance are talking, rioters vandalize Eric's limo, carry a giant rat past the window and rock it back and forth. Neither of them comment on this at all.
* YouHaveFailedMe: A possible explanation for why Packer [[spoiler: kills his bodyguard]] is that he failed to protect Packer from the pastry chef.
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