Libertarian propaganda.

Rating: 1/10 (28 August 2009)

In this movie you see a poverty stricken man make it to the top by kissing rich mens butts and working for free in competition with others who have nothing to lose (literally, they are all rich/high class and just in it for the sake of finding a career to make daddy proud). The moral of the story is typical of the Libertarians who produced this film. Serve your wall street masters well enough and perhaps they'll bring you in for a piece of the pie someday, but don't expect anything until you've already given them everything you've got. This movie is horribly unrealistic despite being loosely based on some elements of a true story. If you believed in the message displayed in this movie then you would work 60 hours a week for little to no pay and then find a pot of gold so to speak when you needed it the most. This movie tries to make the claim that there are no failures in a capitalist society except for losers who are unwilling to go the extra mile everyday in their work and that those bust their butts and routinely bend over are greatly rewarded and when they are not it's because they didn't sacrifice enough of themselves, thus they are just losers but the system of having wall street yuppies rule the masses is perfect. This movie is so often misunderstood as a triumph story that it is ridiculous. This movie is a Libertarian attack on fair markets and mixed economy politics. It blatantly shoves the idea down your throat that to make it in America you're supposed to slave away for people who have it way better off than you do and if you do it long enough and well enough than you will be rewarded with the trickle down effect and if you're not so rewarded then you were a loser and any society would be better off without you anyway. That truly is the point and message of this whole movie. If you don't get it then read about Libertarianism and watch the movie again.