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In David Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS, the language can't keep up.

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David Cronenberg’s movie version of Don DeLillo’s "Cosmopolis," a black comedy about a financier whose life is falling apart, is a snapshot of Western civilization in existential panic.

By Matt Zoller Seitz
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September 12, 2012 10:30 AM
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For a Cronenberg film, "Cosmopolis" is light on violence and body horror, but the director’s obsession with evolving ideas and tainted perspectives remains on full display.