The temptation was too great : After a decade marked by excessive confidence in the unlimited growth (I'm talking eighties and the rush of junk bonds, the Masters of the Universe and blah, blah, blah ...), just when it seemed that the markets and their prophets finished digesting the bursting of a bubble and assume the limits of the New Economy goes and comes a cropper of huge dimensions that affect the heart of the system: financial institutions. The events have managed to Oliver Stone feel the need to drive the point home that meant at the time Wall Street (1987) with a sequel to flesh out one of his favorite subjects: the populist critique of human greed .
The September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers announced the biggest bankruptcy in the history of capitalism , opening a tense limbo in which - according to the exaggerated words of a soothsayer - "capitalism was about to disappear" and markets to the brink of collapse. I conclude this introduction linking the text of Paul Krugman and Robin Wells Why are we still falling? , a review Clarita - well explained and better argued - on the background, the mistakes and choices that remain after the disaster. There are nine pages but worth reading, even save, like many other texts Krugman.
Wall Street 2. Money Never Sleeps (2010) aims to harness the momentum of that critical time, and relates not only fictionalized chronicle of those days, but the causes - always according to Stone and his screenwriters - led to this disaster. Compared to this, the party eighties Gordon Gekko - the character Michael Douglas has given his only Oscar as an actor - was a children's party.
Stone is noted that despises the luxurious ambience that portrays business the film, yet is aware of the spectacular and the hook they pose to the viewer the scenes in which brokers talk to their customers surrounded by screens with numbers and are stressed, and hand it to me, and sell now coffee cup, half loose ties and all that .... After linear plot and plan with a theme in the rise and fall of Wall Street , in this second part is an attempt to contextualize and put into perspective the financial disaster September 2008, when all the U.S. banks were left hard. In Wall Street 2. Money never sleeps are at least three intertwined plot lines: a chronicle financial collapse have to add one more family plan reestablish vital priorities, and another about the merits of alternative green energy - more specifically the hydrogen - as an opportunity for redemption of investors to society (it is noted that the director is an avid reader of texts Jeremy Rifkin). Finally, we mention the success of the soundtrack include songs from Brian Eno and David Byrne , taken from his 2008 musical reunion Everything That Happens Will Happen Today .
The resulting set is a good thing: offer a discreet Stone, without their usual formal experiments accelerated nor his populist emphasis in critical discourse. But also bad: the development of history is erratic and bland, without achieving any end frames capturing the viewer's interest (at least mine). Of course, as a good naive moralist is unlike gurus who have left the real economy made some foxes, Stone sent the bad guys to court. may have been enough to drop the troubled Gekko in Wall Street of those busy days to get a more rounded film, or at least most controversial . Moreover, the final heel-side sentimental and there is no time lecturing staff. I do not know who has softened further, if Stone or Gekko ...
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