Rather blah, but why am I remarking on this film? A couple remarkable things: I found the portrayal of Tommy, the Wall Street hotshot strangely sympathetic. On the one hand, doesn't seem to respect his girlfriend and takes her for granted, though, to be fair, she refuses to have sex with him for some strange reason. On the other hand, he helped out the hopeless with the girls, but no obvious personality, honest guy underling, Daniel. I guess to some extent Tommy is being practical because he sees Daniel as a relatively unambitious but hard working guy who could never compete with him for his job (or his girlfriend). Still, it seems unnecessary and confusing for a shark like Tommy to be so nice to him. Sort of an unexpected display of gentlemanly and generous behavior.
The other remarkable thing is the surprise generated by the movie marketing materials and how weirdly effective it is...
** spoiler, read only if you don't plan to see this movie **
What I mean is that the materials try to indicate that Daniel himself could be kind of a duplicitous, dishonest guy also. I.e. things are not what they appear. I was always looking out for him to be a killer, blackmailer, or have some dark past, but he turned out not to be. Why was that effective? I guess it was one of those cases where I wanted to be able to cheer for someone and it turned out to be the right guy.
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