Most Christmas movies reek of sweetness and kindness – and are terrible morale fantasies. I despise such brain sugar.
Sure Trading Places is also fiction – but it is a moral fable with a nasty sting and big bowl of satire. It illustrates many nasty aspects of real life: poverty, injustice and arbitrariness …
But it conquers these obstacles with wit and brains – and not stupid trust in the kindness of people.
