A family member recently bought the movie The Bonfire of the Vanities for a single dollar at a local market stall. After glancing at the rotten tomatoes score, I suggested that we skip the viewing and instead watch Austin Powers for the 33rd time. However, the cheap bastard assured me that his single dollar would not go to waste and that we should all be forced to watch this film… That may well have been the best dollar ever spent.
To my surprise, the movie featured Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Melanie Griffith. I say I was surprised because despite the talented cast I had never heard of this movie or the book it was adapted from. I was so impressed with the movie that I’ve ordered the book written by Tom Wolfe: so you may get a book review in future.
Like the filthy people in this movie, the critics are also lying for their own personal agendas. This was a well made movie which I found quite thought provoking. Sure some characters were exaggerated, but I have come to appreciate a cartoonish performance over a drab realistic role. Consider I wanted realistic portrayals; I would go live in the horrors of reality instead of watching a fictional film… Although I must say that this film’s plot was very alike to the racial divide we find ourselves in today. And from reading some of these online critiques, I believe many are being disingenuous merely because they disagree with the framing of this divide.
The protagonist of this story is a white Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks), whom is a Wall Street bond trader that’s having an affair. Two African American brothers attempt to rob the white pair after they make a wrong turn in the South Bronx of New York City. McCoy’s mistress runs over one of these brothers and sends him into a coma. She then stops McCoy from reporting this incident to the police out of fear that she will face legal ramifications and that their affair will become public knowledge. This is made worse because she later betrays and blames McCoy for the hit and run.
The Jewish district attorney and his cabal of Jewish lawyers are busy failing to convict white people in court when this alleged crime arrives at his desk. He takes this opportunity to rally the brother vote for his upcoming election and places priority on attempting to capture and convict the assumed white man that caused the hit and run. A brother preacher and the mother of the victim make it clear that they are seeking financial compensation for this tragedy and work in collaboration with the Jewish district attorney. As a leader of the brothers, the preacher is able to create a huge stir and influence the election.
A white failing journalist Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis) reports on this story and frames it as an unfortunate and innocent brother being murdered by a white citizen. He is pressured by the Jewish district attorney, the brother preacher and his media boss to embellish the story and frame it based on assumed racial issues.
This plot may seem familiar, and it’s because it is. We have lived this movie many times over. One of the most recent being in relation to a fentanyl fiend named George Floyd. Floyd was a brother with a list of crimes longer than the original The Bonfire of the Vanities novel. He was on drugs committing another one of his many crimes when he was accidently killed by a white man named Derek Chauvin during election season.
Self – admittedly, most Jewish institutions supported George Floyd’s case and it became a battering ram used to sway the brother vote. Many black leaders mainly associated with the organization Black Lives Matter lined their pockets from this tragedy. And white female traitors around the world posted their support for Floyd onto their social media for attention.
Ultimately no one cared about helping George Floyd until they could make advantages in doing so. And no one cared about helping the hit and run victim from this movie until they realized they could prosper from it. No one empathized with Sherman McCoy or Derek Chauvin but rather hung them in public. It didn’t matter what was true, what mattered was that they could reap the benefits.
This movie and reality also both express how white people are never allowed to organize together. There are millions of Jewish, women, brother etc interest groups in the world, but a white man is left to his own demise.
However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The previously mentioned journalist Peter Fallow regrets his falsified story about Stephen McCoy. As he learns the truth he reaches out to McCoy and offers him a lifeline to prove his innocence. McCoy uses this lifeline and is successfully set free. It’s a reminder to all of us that we should not just seek the truth, but yell it from the rooftops until it echoes around the world and finds the ones need to hear it the most.
So let me end with this. After McCoy is found not guilty the court room full of Jews, women and brothers become loudly outraged despite seeing the truth. They are the ones that refuse to listen to any reason or truth, because their hearts are already blackened with hate and lies. And yet, the truth prevails.
