First of all, this film is adapted from a true story. In order to avoid legal disputes, the names of the prototype companies and characters have been changed. The prototype of the story is a Canadian mining company called Bre-X. They bought the mine in Busang, Indonesia in 1993 (consistent with the film). Two years later, they announced the discovery of a large gold mine in Indonesia, and their stock It once rose to a maximum of 286.5 Canadian dollars, and the total market value exceeded 6 billion. But in 1997, after their gold mine samples were found to be fake, the company went bankrupt.
After watching the movie, everyone's concern is mainly focused on whether the protagonist Kenny actively participated in the fraud. Personally think so. Why do I say that, because if you go back and watch the beginning of the movie, you'll find Kenny flashing the story in voiceover from the very beginning. You can understand that the entire story presented on the screen is what he said when he was questioned at the end of the film, so those scenes on the camera can not be 100% accurate. From Kenny's point of view, he will definitely try his best to clear his suspicion, so he will push all the frauds to his friend Acosta in the story. In fact, we are all inclined to believe the story until the end of the film. But the napkin and the $82 million check at the end is a huge reversal, and we see Kenny smiling knowingly, suggesting he wasn't surprised by the check.
In other words, the appearance of the check was part of the plan. As for when this plan started, the agreement written on the napkin has given us the answer. In the questioning, Kenny said: "I don't care about money, I only care about gold." Considering his ugly state of indulging in alcoholism when he is satisfied, of course we can only listen to this sentence. What he really thought was to reverse this sentence: "I don't care about gold, I only care about money." When he went to Acosta, he was a desperate gambler, and Acosta laughed at him at the time for looking "like I have to rob to get up to meet me." Kenny put all of his net worth at the time into it, which meant he could only succeed, not fail. In this situation, Kenny wants to succeed by any means, and of course deception has become a normal choice for him.
As for whether Acosta died or not, it's hard to say. Because the cheque was written before the date of Acosta's execution. So at least in theory, there is no contradiction. But considering that Acosta's death does have a lot of room for tricks (corruption of the Indonesian government, the destruction of the body's face), it is completely normal even if he is still alive.
Maybe some viewers will think that if Kenny is really a bad guy who has been planning a scam from the beginning, wouldn't the ending of this story not be positive at all? After all, this is not an inspirational movie. The main purpose of this story is to expose the ugly side of the mercenary financial market represented by Wall Street to us. In the process of watching the movie, the reason why we feel sympathy for Kenny is that he may really be fighting for his dream, and it just proves from the negative how superb the tricks of this liar are. But a liar is a liar after all, and if Kenny was a thoroughly positive character, Matthew McConaughey wouldn't have to destroy his image for the character, eat burgers, drink milkshakes, gain dozens of pounds, and shave bald hair.
If anyone still broods over Kenny's impunity at the end of the film, a final addition to Kenny's character, David Walsh, moved to the Bahamas a year after escaping justice. There, two masked gunmen broke into his home and extorted money from him. While he survived the crisis, he died of an aneurysm just three weeks later at the age of 52.
If you don't believe me, look up, who the heavens have forgiven.
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