From the perspective of commercial films, the genre films that describe the financial circle with Wall Street stock employees as the entry point have a very neat and complete structure.
The bottom layer of the story is very simple and clear. A poor boy who is still paying off student loans, through unremitting efforts (cheeky), catches up with a big man in the financial circle, and sells the inside information of his father's company to let the big man. The boss made a fortune, and the boss saw the shamelessness of the protagonist and decided to fly with him. Through various common financial intelligence methods and illegal operations, the protagonist made a little money and gained love at the same time, and then in the final acquisition incident, because the interests of his father's company were involved, the protagonist turned his head and betrayed the boss, and then After being beaten by the boss, he was sent to prison, and the protagonist turned to taint the witness and bit the boss.
The script is very solid, the routines in every place are perfect, the protagonist who owes a loan and is unwilling to start, the beauties who get to know once at the party of the bosses, the beauties were once the playthings of the bosses, in the face of the big right and wrong, the protagonist goes back to the right path and political correctness It kept the company, every turn in the event was very slight, and there was no multi-line narrative in the literary film, the old man's recollection, and there was no tongue-in-cheek chicken soup for the soul of the stock market (Wolf of Wall Street), all the characters and lines are revolving around The plot is turning, and even in the end, the male protagonist broke up because his girlfriend took up the anger of the boss, and there was no moaning plot that took up the length of the movie. After the female protagonist slammed out the door, the director did not even have more than one in the later stage. The camera, this editing is commercial enough and neat enough, the useless tool people are just like the dead teammates in the monster movie, it is not a pity.
The shortcomings are also mentioned: from the perspective of finance, the professionalism is average. The whole story mainly only talks about the relatively introductory operation method of insider trading. The two acquisition battles are also straightforward and popular, and they are purely for the service of the plot. The first time was the big boss Jie Hu, another big boss whose assets were more than ten times his. The two sides exchanged fire for a little bit and tried to withdraw. This is just to set off the big boss's intelligence and lead the protagonist into the industry. The second acquisition is just too much. There are some trade union plots, but this part of the film is actually not interpreted. It is relatively superficial, and it is normal. Commercial films are too much to explain. It is like another acquisition in the film, Random Paper, It's just to give the boss the opportunity to make a speech to show the character of the boss. There is not much involved in the complex financial relationship between management and shareholders. It should be said that ordinary audiences can clearly understand this paragraph. Compared with the relatively complex event-based real adaptation of the subprime mortgage crisis, it is much easier to understand.
It is worth watching but not classic enough because it is too routine, too dramatic, and there is always a little bit of a place where you can't help but shiver when you suddenly see a certain picture.
Douglas' impassioned speech?
A war of words in the office that the stock market is a zero-sum game?
The love between the male protagonist and the designer female protagonist?
The relationship between the male protagonist and his father?
Morality or money?
The background and discussion of the times?
The essence behind Wall Street? (Stock trading is only part of Wall Street, investment banking is much more than that)
I feel that the idea is still almost meaningless, the structure is mature but the new idea in technique is lacking.
That's all.
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