2008年全球金融危机,华尔街几位眼光独到的投资鬼才在2007年美国信贷风暴前就看穿了泡沫假象,通过做空次贷CDS而大幅获益,成为少数在金融灾难中大量获利的投资枭雄。贾瑞德·韦内特将一个能把40亿美元单子做成37亿美元收入的德银代理人,迈克尔·布瑞是独眼基金管理人,马克·鲍姆是华尔街世家出身,本·霍克特是康沃尔资本退休银行家。。Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。