The passing moon behind the building is almost a direct copy from Koyaanisqatsi. The movie also features a lot of timelapses of traffic the same way done as in Koyaanisqatsi.
Jenkins quotes Neil McCauley: "What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone. There's a dead man on the other end of this line." And adds: "We should watch the bank robbery shootout on my plasma screen at home."