The Bonfire of the Vanities (1989) is directed by Brian de Palma and based on the novel by Tom Wolfe . Book I have not read, so all my opinions are about the film as such and not as an adaptation.
is a kind of movie that unfortunately no longer made. Today most of films insist on joining a specific genre, even good, and very few releases that you do not dare to classify. But we have a work that is part drama, part comedy and even part of history "detective" or court.
best (and some might be the worst) of The Bonfire of the Vanities is that it seems unable to take itself seriously. Its development is entirely conventional and serious plot at first, but is filled with small excesses, sometimes details Surrealism and rub in this case approaching a common movie title good movie. Side as the district attorney desperately seeking a case to convict a white man in the Bronx to win the votes of the black community or the drunken journalist played by Bruce Willis , stories like the cart full of shit or the plane carrying Arabs to Mecca; situations delirious as the scene of the photocopier or the shotgun. All are small and not too small elements of the script, not to appear, leave this film like everyone else.
But The Bonfire of the Vanities also offers interesting reflections on such topics as the dangers of "positive racism" or positive discrimination, the manipulative power of the press, lack of scruples in the struggle for power or the difference between justice and security or law and justice as legal process.
We are not facing an awesome movie with all the letters, but with a film that can be seen and well worth a couple of hours you spend dead.
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