film review

Darron 2022-04-23 07:02:30

Who is this film mocking? I think maybe the whole of Wall Street. In fact, this film describes a mess in the post-financial crisis era, stubbornness, and the crisis still exists, whether it is the capital market or social life. On the surface, the film describes the male protagonist's loss of his father at an early age, the loss of his mother when he was young, and the pressure of Wall Street that led him to carry out a series of schizophrenic self-redemption. But in fact, is this not the self-salvation of the capital market? Today, people on Wall Street still work and live like dogs. At the moment of the financial crisis, it was like a fire, and the reality is as the male protagonist finally saw. After the fire, some people died, some people were struggling to rescue, and some people danced like no one else. It implies people's numbness, or more implying that in the financial crisis, the two extreme groups of Wall Street, the winners and losers of the capital market. The winner is the king and the loser, and the loser is left alone, and the indifference of the king is the irony of the whole movie. But that's all that Wall Street is after, this life-or-death, inhuman jubilation. The bricks and bricks of Wall Street are not made of blood, just like this nursing home, the rich people's paradise is also their hell. The peace and beauty of the nursing home is just like the calm before the financial crisis. The dean seems to have control of the overall situation, but he did not expect it to be destroyed by a crazy boy. In the final scene, the Dean is in the middle of the dance floor, looking around, watching his sanitarium be destroyed by the despair and desolation of the moment. Don't you think it's very familiar, such eyes, as if he is "Wall Street", he looked at everything he built with his own hands, collapsed in an instant, but who caused this, the initiator is "Wall Street" as a father, and sprinkle It is your child who is the one who will plant the fire. The above is a superficial analysis as a financial person. In fact, I have a lot of thoughts, and I need to think more about it late at night.

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A Cure for Wellness quotes

  • Pembroke: [Lockhart reading his letter] To my fellow-members of the Board. A man cannot unsee the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness, or go blind once he has the gift of sight, any more than he can be unborn. We are the only species capable of self-reflection. The only species with the toxin of self-doubt written into our genetic code. Unequal to our gifts, we build, we buy, we consume. We wrap us in the illusion of material success. We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement. Superiority to other men.

  • Pembroke: [Lockhart now reading the letter sitting at boardroom table] There is a sickness inside us. Rising like the bile that leaves that bitter taste at the back of our throats. It's there in every one of you seated around the table. We deny its existence until one day the body rebels against the mind and screams out, "I am not a well man." No doubt you will think only of the merger. That unclean melding of two equally diseased institutions. But the truth cannot be ignored. For only when we know what ails us can we hope to find the cure. I will not return. Do not attempt to contact me again. Sincerely, Roland E. Pembroke.

    Hank Green: Well, Mr. Lockhart, what do you make of that?

    Lockhart: Clearly he's lost his mind.

    Wilson: Our thought exactly.

    Hollis: Man goes for two-week spa vacation and has a complete mental breakdown.

    Humphrey: [viewing his smartphone] Who the hell takes the waters in the 21st century anyway?