
The whole story is a bit of a dream world with bizarre incidences featuring rats, fleeting appearances by a range of individual advisors turning up in his car, and encounters on several occasions with women who may or may not be his wife. His actions seem irrational and those of someone who is bored of life and actually wants to experience death as the one thing he cannot afford or control.
Ultimately I didn't really feel any connection with the character and so didn't really care whether he lived or died.
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The Film

The calm and smooth ever onward movement of the stretch limo, where as much noise from the outside world as possible has been drowned out and where not even the riot and threat of being overturned phases the inhabitants, seems like a metaphor for the stock markets and bankers.
Its a film rich for film studies criticism and analysis and a classic in the Cronenberg canon.
If you enjoyed the book, try Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities
If you enjoyed the film, try a David Lynch film such as Mulholland Drive
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