Getting a good job as the key to happiness? Come on, give me a break !

Rating: 1/10 (16 January 2007)

This movie is pathetic. OK, maybe the movie is well done; I'm talking about the story itself. It has a predictable ending. There really are no surprizes, it's boring. it's totally unrealistic. The main character comes out as if he were some sort of rags to riches superman. Quite stupid to say the least. The theme seems to be that the utmost happiness comes through getting a good paying job, as a stock broker in this case. In a super competitive environment, only very few can achieve such a status. What happens to the many who don't? Are they therefore condemned to unhappiness? Are stock brokers all really happy just because they have a good paying job? What is the author of this story, whether it's based on real life or not, really trying to say? That only the few privileged ones that manage to, through really hard work, get that special job are the ones whom deserve to reach happiness? I just don't get the whole thing. I guess it's just a product of the perverse USA job culture. But, if you ask me, the movie is really lame, stupid, boring, and carries no message at all. I wouldn't waste 10 seconds on it, sorry