Wall Street - KDJ

Oliver Stone movies are kind of all over the place. From Natural Born Killers to The Doors to Larry Flynt to the original Wall Street and now to this one -- covering lots of ground and lots of issues later, I think this is one of the best. I think everyone that reads the news, especially during the beginning phases of the recession, wondered about the moment when the dudes that decided everything acutally had to decide something. I heard Oliver interviewed and he wanted to stay away from this sort of scene as much as possible. He didn't want to directly portray subprime, crappy loans on a huge scale. He wanted to the fall-out to be more character driven, individual, able-to-relate-to, or whatever. But gosh, when I hear the number 700 billion I am always in complete amazement thinking about the dudes that first uttered the words, we need 700 billion dollars - we these millionaire investment bankers - need 700 billion dollars. Cause, man, and I think this is why the plot of this movie moves so well, is that there is some serious Greek drama going on. There is so much under the table, so much behind the curtain of both a bailout and a movie about a bailout of this magnitude. We, the viewer are forced to piece it together for ourselves and just as this can be difficult in real life, so to has Stone captured the difficultly of seeing how things play out when there isn't one to blame or one to save us or one to explain it all for us. I thought this movie was great. The first one was monumental and has become seasoned, the second comes along in stride with the help of some slicker technology and flashy directing - much like market shares; the value is hard to pinpoint without a rumor or a vilifying story, only this time, Sheen appears un-wizened.