How to achieve the American Dream at all costs, even when you are a mental patient. Howard Hughes showed us how to do it.

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2019)

This direction by Martin Scorsese is epic in vistas. Glorious soundtrack by Howard Shore. Great supporting role by Cate Blanchett. Really impressive epic psychological portrait of billionaire Howard Hughes who is tormented by mental disorders and struggles to stay sane.
It's 1945, and 2 aviation companies fight each other for control of the American skies. One aviation company is a new comer and headed by Leonardo di Caprio. Will he succeed in becoming a succes? Or will the powers that be cripple Leonardo di Caprio's attempt of becoming the biggest aviation company in history?
This is a story about how to achieve the American Dream at all costs. True story by the way, based on billionaire Howard Hughes. Just google that name, quite extra oridinary story. What makes this epic story unique is the portrayal of all the psychological fears that plague Leonardo di Caprio while he is trying to achieve succes as a newcomer in the aviaton business.
In his role as a CEO of a huge aviation company, Leonardo di Caprio has got OCD (Obsessive Compulsion Disorder), a mental disorder in which fears are entirely controlled by obsessive repeated thought and behaviour patterns. To put it more simply, the man has got excruciating fears of being touched or touching anything which he fears isnt clean. These obsessive fears cripple di Caprio while he is simultaneously trying to achieve to become the biggest aviation company of the world. I usually dont care much for di Caprio's acting talents, but this acting performance of the mental downfall of Howard Hughes is pretty impressive!