as a business major in accounting and finance this movie is disturbingly realistic

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2006)

I am majoring in accounting and corporate finance and this movie sorta hits home in the fact of how fast-moving and emotionally detached the business world is from love, happiness, and consideration. Christian Bale accurately plays a businessman involved in world where money is taken for granted, massive amounts of money, appearance is everything (read The Prince by Machiavelli), and no one cares to even know each others name, nonetheless look each other in the eyes. No one looks out for each other as each businessman essentially looks out for himself and little else. This type of environment allows sociopaths, OCD manics, and psychopathic and serial tendencies to thrive. The treatment Christian Bale receives and more so dishes out to middle and poor classes and even his own rich class is ruthless and horrifying. The movie leaves you feeling very uneasy and distrusting of the big business corporate world, i take this personally too since i am heading into this corporate nightmare. I recommend this film very much, don't watch it as a date movie if your trying to get close to your partner, it kills moods because the film most likely will not leave you feeling any type of good. In a nut shell this film will leave you thinking heavily about how sick and disillusioned the prisoners of corporate America's world can become.