Poor and notorious The Bonfire Of The Vanities was a huge box office bomb and it was relentlessly panned by critics. Yes this is a movie that was given the finger, big time. But truth says that this is not a bad movie at all. As a matter of fact is one of the greatest satires that you can find out there. With a cynical manner and a blacker than black, humour, The Bonfire Of The Vanities is satirizing, brilliantly, the pretentiousness of people. Evilness and cruelty coming from all directions, in a film that clearly wishes to vilify the human race for its unforgivable sins. Self-absorbed and self-righteous people are marching through the screen in a film parade that drips poison. The Bonfire Of The Vanities is a movie that sees the human race as degenerates who are willing, for success and personal gain, to do anything, who are totally unable to feel the pain of the human being next to them and who are always ready to throw mud to anyone if that suits their personal interest. Directed by the great master of thriller movies Brian De Palma who is proving here that is a director who can make any type of movie he wants, The Bonfire Of The Vanities is a film that is truly a shame that has gone down as one of the greatest failures and it is, more than that, a shame that people didn't get the great comment that the film has, that bitter truth about the human being, being always a heinous opportunist and a great liar, who out of everything is trying to get the best for him, leaving the others around him in pain and agony. The Bonfire Of The Vanities is a down-to-earth and in-your-face at the same time movie, a cleverly put, didactic film that teaches us that humans will never change and that history will repeat itself, giving us stories were people are used as victims for the personal gain of others.
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