In my opinion, the whole film tells about a person's "life", and one of the biggest factors that attracted Lai to play should be that new way of life. I call this format experiential cinema - a first-person perspective of God that allows the audience to experience a whole new way of life. But if it were to be judged on a film scale, it should fail. The storyline is simple: Wall Streeters commit heinous crimes and end up in jail. The whole film is pieced together from details, and aside from the mouthful of FUC*, sex, and drugs, you can't even remember anything special or important. Or, it's more like a "Wall Street diary" where we see a person's life (biography) rather than a story. This is also the fatal reason why he did not win the Oscar.
But it's still a good movie, not to mention the exquisite scenes and scenes, just this theme (different from "Wall Street" and other similar movies about Wall Street), this way of presentation is full of provocation.
There are two things that impressed me a lot.
Brad, the muscular guy with the mustache. When he was sent to prison by Donnie (Donnie insisted on Brad apologize to him, the two quarreled on the road, attracted the police and led to prison), I had sympathy for Brad. Wall Street has no friends, and it's amazing that he didn't betray Jordan. In fact, he is just a supporting role, after sympathy and admiration, I didn't pay much attention. But until the end, Jordan asks: How did you sell me this pen. It dawned on me that Brad was the one Jordan really admired and valued. Can't help but applaud the screenwriter's setting. (Because I paid a lot of attention to these details, similar to Easter eggs.) In fact, these small details often reflect the director's intentions.
Thinking about it carefully, among the founders of the company, only Brad is not involved in the financial field. If you say he doesn’t understand, he actually knows sales better than anyone else (the first time we met, Jordan said that Brad is a person who can sell everything, He was also the only one who sold the pen to Jordan in the first meeting).
I think Brad has not changed from the beginning to the end. Although the ending is "he died of a heart attack two years after he was released from prison", the director seems to tell us that we must never forget the original intention, and we must end the way. (Compared to other founders, the final free death is actually the best destination. Everyone else spends the rest of their lives in prison.)
Another point is the background music when running Cast at the end. It was a humming, and if you were careful, you would find that it was Jordan's first time on Wall Street, and his senior Hanna told him how to hypnotize himself: beat his chest with his hands, and then hum. Hanna was the first person Jordan met on Wall Street and the one who told him the secrets of Wall Street, a person who held an irreplaceable place in Jordan's life. The soundtrack at the end is not so much the director's arrangement as it is Jordan's own monologue. He hopes to express his respect and memory of his predecessors in this way-not forgetting the original intention, we must end the beginning.
In the first 130 minutes of the film, he worked hard to create a rich and luxurious life, but when he was told by the procuratorate, his previous yearning suddenly disappeared. In the final lecture, when Jordan threw the "Sell Me This Pen" question to the audience, he seemed to make it clear: There is no speculative sales method in the world, everything has to start with the simplest and most basic content, if there is no such process , Just like building a building, without a foundation, the higher the building, the greater the risk of collapse, and this is also a portrayal of Jordan's life.
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