The Age of Greed

Assault on Wall Street (also known as Attack on Wall Street and formerly known as Bailout: The Age of Greed) is a 2013 action thriller film written and directed by Uwe Boll. It tells the story of a security guard who struggles to pay for his wife's medical bills and loses his investments in the financial crisis of 2007–2008, prompting a shooting spree on Wall Street after his wife takes her own life.

Much of the movie, Assault on Wall Street is a typical drama, but the plot twist at the end took me completely by surprise. What most stunned me was a monologue near the end of the film by a banker/hedge-fund type of guy.

“There is not a person on this Earth that's worth over a hundred million dollars that came by that money honestly. Why don't you take a look at the old money -- the Vanderbuilts, the Carnegies, the Gettys, the Morgans, the Hearsts, the Rockefellers. How do you think they got all that money? They just annexed territories and licenses and businesses and killed the native populations and imported slaves and sold guns to both the North and the South during the Civil War and controlled the politicians and they're heroes, they're American heroes.

We teach our children what -- honesty and hard work are the keys to success?

My children are not going to go off to some war, they're going to go to Yale, they're going to go to Harvard. And it's going to be the dumb, stupid white trash kids and the black ghetto kids that are going to fight America's senseless wars.

And they're going to protect America's security and businesses, and it's going to be my business, my business that's going to get richer and richer, and my bonuses are going to get bigger and bigger. And it's the same old story. It's the bankers and the owners and the advisers who get rich”.