Michael Packer's Journey To His City Case Study

On an April day in 2000, throughout the ‘booming’ times of a market optimistic community when the culture was boiling over with money and the corporations had seemed more vital as an asset and more influential than the governments. Eric Michael Packer, a billionaire manager at the age of 28, had emerged from his luxurious penthouse an settled into his personally advanced customized white stretch limousine. That day, he was a man with two distinctively different missions: to pursue a bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town, instead of at a barber shop closer to his location. His adventure to the shop had been comical and fast paced, however, Eric had been delayed by traffic because of the presidential motorcade, the rapper’s idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration. During the limousine ride however, Eric received a succession of visitors, including his experts on top security, technology, currency, and finance and theory. A few times he left the car during a stall for sexual encounters and …show more content…
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