Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the sequel to Wall Street that came out in 1987.  The plot is centered around a relationship between this guy named Jacob and Winnie.  Jacob works on Wall Street, while Winnie attempts to establish a web cite she created on the map.  The kicker is that Winnie is the daughter of Gordon Gekko, a highly respected man within Wall Street once upon a time.  He was found guilty of using and abusing insider information to enhance his profits.  The movie starts off with him getting out of jail and having nothing.  Long story short, he manipulates Jacob into using insider information to ultimately steal 100 million dollars from Winnie that he left in her name before he went to jail.  

The most prominent justice issue presented in this movie is this idea of insider trading.  The trading of stock with hidden information that the general public is not informed about.  Its not only about insider trading, but the ways of proving someone guilty of this crime.  As one can imagine its extremely difficult to prove what a person has heard by word of mouth.  How can a justice system convict a person of hearsay, when we are highly rooted in providing solid/hard evidence towards one another?  Gordon Gekko really isnt seen as a villain in the movie yet more so as an antihero.  The movie is drenched in moral and ethical issues between the three main characters, yet is seen as secondary to the white collar crime.  It really gives you a great example of a victimless crime.