What was the point of his little speech about the sunrise?
Was he being bombastic and fake?
Or did it show a moment of clarity and humanity that nature is more valuable than art ie false value.
Or was it just a nice sunrise.
It was to show off the massive cell phone
shareIt was to point out that he had an awesome beach house with a great view of the sunrise.
shareIt showed that there was a side of Gekko that was indeed capable of appreciating things that are not of the material world. It made me wonder what made him into such a cutthroat sociopath. He does collect art; maybe deep down he really always felt that he should have been an artist--an appreciator of transcendent beauty--but mommy/daddy or some other environmental factors made him into Gekko the Great. The scene is a good example of ambiguous character development using an economy of words, and affront to the detractors of Oliver Stone who claim that he's incapable of subtlety.
shareGekko uses wealth to shield his massive insecurities.
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