Wall Street (1987)

Wall Street seemed to be perhaps the first movie to take the America of the 80's through the angle of stock exchanges, brokerage and capitalism as whole. I am not sure but it serves as the basis of making cinema on real topics and just not a fiction. The story, co-screen written by Oliver Stone and directed by him, is by far a simple yet complete procedure of getting the viewers into the market realities during its time. The subject, the processes, the characters seems to be thoroughly studied, revised and polished before presenting them to the viewers.

Gordon Gekko, brilliantly portrayed by Michael Douglas is not the protagonist in the movie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for the Best Actor in Leading Role in this film. His character shows what kind of people are there in the world. Selfish, opportunists, who justify all their means to be at the top. But the character of Charlie Sheen, Bud Fox represents the millions who get trapped in the dilemma of honesty and success. Perhaps, the beauty of the movie is that in whichever profession you may remain, such a situation might come to your life. Wall Street is just one place where it happens.

I think there are topics and then there are masterpieces of Oliver Stone on those topics. The pace of the movie is terrific. The music and the OSTs are good. Good actors and taut performances by them. I saw it in 2003 for the first time. I could not understand all of it, then. I have seen the movie at least 3-4 times since then. It just looks like a good research work on the screen and I like it every time I see it now.

My rating: 7.3/10