even the really bad 80s music fits in

Rating: 8/10 (17 August 2017)

Loved the book, which I remember recommending to many but I recall being disappointed with the film. Now with memory of both rather faded, another look. It is a hard film to 'like' as the events and characters all seem to be horrible. And I mean the obsession with getting reservations for crazy restaurants serving crazy foods covered with scribbled sauces. The obsession for clothes and even personal cards and the variations of colour and embossing. All this is terrible enough never mind the grim killings and the increasingly confusing happenings as we begin to doubt what is being presented to us. Is Bale being evasive or is there something else going on, or not going on, more to the point? On balance and with the benefit of distance from those mad Wall Street days, this takes on the air of a decent satire of the times, when human life itself seemed less important than some statement suit or signature dish. And then the are the drugs. In truth its a wonder with all the money sloshing around and all the drugs being consumed that more people didn't get really, really confused as to what was real and what wasn't. Great looking film and even the really bad 80s music fits in to help this insanity keep rolling till the end.