Hey readers!
Warning: I’m no money-expert. I know the economy sucks. I’ve heard of recession, even there is fashion recession but I cannot make brilliant comparisons in this film. I will review it based on my understanding. So I hope you guys understand it. Last two weeks I watched the sequel of Wall Street which was the original in 1987. This year, powerful Gordon Gekko has make a comeback. I have read the review on the original Wall Street, most of the commenter said The original
Wall Street was edgier and courser. It lacked the family drama and was mostly about the corruption in high-finance. This time, the director want to put some the love and family drama into it. So it will look balance and real. Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps can be described as 'Money can't buy happiness'.
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Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Shia LaBeouf, Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon. I have to say Michael Douglas is a powerful man. He really portrays a powerful and greedy Gordon Gekko. Well I have to say that I really admire businessman. Enough said. Shia LaBeouf portrays the intelligent but still a beginner in business/finance world with a bright future. I loved Carey Mulligan in An Education (2009) but here she was weak. The second movie opens with Gekko getting out of jail in October 2001 broke and alone. Gone are the swagger, the Armani suits, the white collared colored shirts, and the suspenders. All that’s left is an unshaven old man with nowhere to go – or so it seems. The movie than flashes forward 6 ½ years to June 2008 (right before the beginning of the global financial meltdown). Seven years later, the story of Jacob played by Shia LaBeouf and his girlfriend, Winnie played by Carey Mulligan.
Apparently Winnie is the daughter of Gordon Gekko. Gekko has become an author and a lecturer promoting his new book, "Is Greed Good?". Jake works at Keller Zabel Investments and tries to raise more money for a fusion research project. Jake is one of the firm’s top proprietary traders and the protégé of its managing director. Yet the entire time, we the audience, are two moves ahead of everyone in the film, since we’re still sitting here in 2010
dealing with the consequences of 2008’s financial crash. All the drama of the financial begins until the end. I really can't explain or review about the situation because I don't really understand the crisis. Later on, Gekko be friends with Jake. Gekko told him the real story between him and Winnie. Thus Gekko reveals his characteristic philosophy of life, where every deal that he makes in return for something is nothing but a trade. But Winnie doesn't know they met. There is a lot of financial and the causes of the global financial crisis explained, the rest of the movie is a hodge-podge of con games and payback. Which I don't really understand.
Later on with Jake's mother investment problem and his relationship problem with Winnie. Their relationship falls apart when Winnie has an account in Switzerland with 100 million dollars, Gekko told Jake could use that money to fund the research and save the company. But since Winnie never declared it, she could go to jail for tax evasion. Gekko tells Jake that he can embezzle it with his old contacts. Later on, Jake gets a call saying that the money never arrived. He goes to Gekko's apartment and finds it empty: he's gone.
I enjoyed watching Gordon Gekko himself get back into the game. He started the movie with nothing but didn’t give up and came back strong. Then the financial drama continues and in the end, three of them reunites. Gordon Gekko teaches us all an important investment lesson. He quoted in the movie "Think positive, pal. When most people lose, they whine and quit. You’ve got to be there for the turns". This advice is excellent, not just for aspiring corporate raiders and hedge fund managers, but for regular people like you and me. Those investors with emotional fortitude and the discipline not to quit when the going gets tough will come out ahead in the end.
I comment this movie
(3) ★★★only.
Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress. Woodley is known for portraying Amy Juergens in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager and for co-starring alongside George Clooney in the 2011 drama film The Descendants, for which she received critical acclaim, including a Golden Globe nomination. In 2007, Woodley appeared in Cold Case as Sarah Gunden, the murder victim's younger Amish sister, who originally brought the case to the investigators' attention. Woodley stars in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Amy Juergens, a 15 year old who discovers she is pregnant. The show explores the effects of her pregnancy on her family, friends and herself as well as life at Ulysses S. Grant High School in California.
