Eric Packer (Robert Pattison) is a billionaire young broker. In the book he’s described as someone cold and frivolous. In a chaotic day, he decides to travel around the city in his super technological limousine. He spends all day trying to get a haircut, and ends up at the salon of the poor neighborhood in which he grew up. The same day he decides to invest all his money, and all the money of the people who trusted him, in a risky bet against the yen. The story of Eric Packer in the book is almost identical to the story in the film played by Robert Pattison. The trip last all day, and meanwhile he met with different partners, employees, women, doctors, and his wife, with whom he never had sex. He was always accompanied by his bodyguard, who never stopped telling how dangerous was to be out in the city due the security threats they had previously received. It’s at the end, when Packer spoke to his longtime barber about the possible existence of his parents, but no further information was given about them. It seems that in reality he wanted to have different lifestyle with a normal job, a family, and a neighborhood. But he was already on his way to a pessimist self-destruction. Deeply, Packer was like a child, eager of sensations and protagonism, and able to hate the U.S president for having a threat against its security and not against his. …show more content…
The film starring Robert Pattison, and directed by David Cronenberg shows Packer as the same cold character, however there are parts that doesn’t make sense to the audience, taking into consideration that they have already read the