by Ben PerLee, October 1, 2010
Gordon Gecko is the exact same man as the business man put away in prison at the end of 1987’s Wall Street. Sauntering out of the big house in 2001 with a gold watch, gold money clip, and a cell phone as big as a shoe, he’s the same man we left behind: a businessman who will do anything for the bottom dollar. It’s a new millennium, a new economy, but the same business practices.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is probably one of the most apt titles of any film I’ve seen this year (well, short of Piranha 3D), with a plot that follows revolves around the lives of those who are intimately familiar with the loans and risks leading to the market collapse of 2008. Money Never Sleeps, while slightly too long, is certainly the most entertaining representation of this market crash. It is definitely fascinating to see a fictional telling of how we lead up to the market burst, and while it is not exactly the truth, there is enough in here to make any hard working person’s blood boil.
It’s not exactly a hard plot to follow. Gekko (Micheal Douglas), now out of prison, is approached by one Mr. Jacob Moore (Shia LeBeouf) for advice and assistance. A young and upcoming business man, Jacob just so happens to be engaged to Gekko’s estranged daughter, Winnie (Carey Mulligan). A major proponent of funding a new source of clean energy with a breakthrough in nuclear fusion, Jacob is on the up and up until his bank collapses. After the resulting suicide of Jacob’s long time mentor and father figure Louis (Frank Langella), the next two hours director Oliver Stone weaves a story of fiscal revenge on the part of Jacob against the man who destroyed his agency and killed his friend, with a side-plot on the rebuilt relationship between the Gekko family and the impending marriage between the young couple.
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