At first glance, "Cosmopolis" does not seem to be suitable for adaptation into a movie, but the director David Cronenberg has put on the screen several novels that look equally difficult to shoot before, whether it is the weird-looking William S. Bai Lotz's " David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch ", James Ballard's " Crash ", which is too graphic , or Patrick McGratz's " Spider "which is too much psychological description. In fact, "Cosmopolis" is a material that is very suitable for Cronenberg's directing. The novel contains all the motifs of Cronenberg's business cards: how the outside world affects the characters' hearts, social group anxiety and panic, and people's epilepsy. behavior. It is precisely because there are so many motifs that Cronenberg is familiar with, so David Cronenberg did not hesitate to adapt this novel.
In order to create an atmosphere of claustrophobia in the film, David Cronenberg made many things in the story just happen in the car. He believes that this does not make people feel tedious, on the contrary, it will make the film more creative. Even the scene where the protagonist Eric meets an art dealer is moved from the apartment in the original book to the car in the movie.
