Oliver Stone's "Wall St"

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I went in with muted expectations: the money was going to be all wrong the "sex" irrelevant. At best this movie would be a King Lear bleeding green. It would have to be enjoyed on its own while Hollywood, again, missed its mark.

Indeed, Stone misses much here, not least the money: $100,000,000 comeback kid on the Treasury hotline.....pluuueeeease! "$200,000 was a lot of money back then," Gordon Gecko proffers. But I'm going to give this one a big thumbs up for recognizing the essentially and undeniably human nature embedded in this popularly stained notion of "bubbles."

The movie begins and ends on the same: the universe suddenly and dramatically accelerates and out of that bubble all human life is born and sustained (a bubble that has yet to pop he adds provocatively); and at the end, children, the promise of the future and guarantee of the present, blow soap bubbles, bubbles on bubbles floating up from the hell that is now.

For once the romantic subplot not only serves the drama, linking new money-good to old money-bad, but brings us back to what is essential in recovery: birth. The Madona and Child, that is the image this old atheist brings--and it's really to only way to personify it. Redemption.

Stone's father was Wall St.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39238179/ns/business-us_business/

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Businessweek's behind-the-scenes account:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_40/b4197085469753.htm

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