The pot calling the kettle black?

Rating: 1/10 (11 January 2014)

Hollywood liberals take their best swipe at Wall Street liberals. Still, the old saw applies: you have to be one to know one. Is there really a clean end of a turd called art? I am no prude, still this rendition of the depravity of Hollywood excesses, projected into the Wall Street excesses leaves one feeling violated. The audience laughed, because it was reviled to an extreme, so that the laugh was preferable to vomiting. Try as you will, you cannot roll in manure and come up clean. Most people recognize that depraved behavior in the end is destructive, to self and society. Why spend hours examining excrement? Is the critical merit ascribed by critics and users alike, that the movie is so repulsively done that it makes it art? By Hollywood standards, it seems so. The movie actually did what the characters did, it stole from viewers for its own excesses, to make money and achieve notoriety. They tried to portray filth without becoming filthy themselves. That's an illusion. How sad a commentary on an aging director, and a failing industry. Yet we the public eat "it" (this crap) up. What a sad commentary on us. This movie is beyond tragic.