WALL STREET: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Money Never Weeps

Fine movie explaining – albeit in simple terms - the present global economic meltdown. What it lacks in emotional involvement between the characters, and the audience, it makes up for in satire about Western (White) capitalist greed.

Also an attack on fueling an economy on the basis of credit, rather than the production of services or goods which merely serves to create a series of credit bubbles that eventually (& inevitably) lead to burstings.

Like this director’s earlier W., Oliver STONE has made this film during the time of the situation being critiqued. Therefore, it has no real ending; merely suggesting a way out of the economic mess by a process of wishful-thinking - down-sizing anyone?

Not quite as good as the first Wall Street, but good enough in presenting a quintessential villain as an expository mouthpiece for the many failings of Western capitalism.

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