Ethical Movie Review
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"Become an employee of this firm, you will make your first million within three years." These words were spoken by one of the main characters in the movie Boiler Room. This man was ecstatic because of all of the wealth that he created by pulling the metaphorical stock market wool over his clients eyes. In Boiler Room many aspects of ethical and unethical business are both directly and indirectly depicted. In the movie the company J.T. Marlin that most of the main characters worked for was based on cheating the public. The proceeding paragraphs will expand upon, in detail how this company was based upon money over morals and the dilemma the main character was faced with when he discovered the illegal operation.
The company was far from Wall Street. This company was ran as a high class firm. It was an illegal operation selling fake stock for large profits. In some ways it was a monopoly because it was the only business that is selling the stocks in Pharotech. J.T. Marlin brought in youth with no experience and then trained them to sell stock. The new employees started as trainees and after

They started having the customers buy small amounts of stock which would not have much risk attached. They would keep selling the stock to increase the price to create profit for the stockowners. In turn, creating desire for them to invest more money, making more commission for the brokers as well raising the stock price. After this cycle continued for a short period of time, they would quit dumping money into the stock and would let its value drop to nothing leaving the company with all the money.
Through Seth's experience working for J.T. Marlin he came to the realization that money is not more important than morals. People in our society today do not follow business ethics as a guideline for success. Many of these people spend their whole life chasing after money, not giving moral consideration to how they obtain it.
Seth Davis who was a new Sr. Broker let his curiosity lead him finding the truth behind the company and its illegal method of conducting business. He came to the dilemma of choosing money over morals which put weight on his conscious. Not only were his choices affecting himself but also affect
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Approximate Word count = 760
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
Category: Movies
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