Martin Scorsese’s highly stylized version of Sodoma and Gomorra that replaces perversion and sodomy with greed, offers a vision of a world fueled but also destroyed by those who don’t know when to stop in their quest for money and power.

It also reveals a world of glamour destroyed by big corporations, which represent a new generation of the greedy, as well as the next step in society’s spiral of self-destruction, which started with violence but ends with consumerism.

An indirect sequel to Goodfellas, this is a film that shouldn’t be compared to the latter since it’s very different in it’s structure and themes in spite of being told in a similar way and being set among gangsters.

It also needs to be said that it exploits Scorsese’s style as few other films in his career.