BY BRUCE BENNETT

For four decades, David Cronenberg’s films have proved oddly prescient as well as expertly disturbing. His latest, an adaptation of Don Delillo’s 2003 novel “Cosmopolis” that opened on Friday, depicts organized acts of anticapitalist civil disobedience, which echo the Occupy Wall Street movement fomenting during the film’s Toronto shoot.

For New York audiences, though, the film dramatizes a more familiar—and more horrific—urban scourge: Manhattan presidential gridlock. Ensconced in a high-tech, soundproofed mobile office limo, 28-year-old cutthroat billionaire asset manager Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson of “Twilight” fame) contends with assistants, lovers, stalkers, fluctuations in the Chinese yuan and in his own …