A Most Violent Year Review
from Savvy Street, writer Kurt Keefner reviews:
"The year of the title is 1981, when street crime in New York City was at its highest and political and business corruption was common. A Most Violent Year (2014) is the story of a principled businessman trying to stay clean in a dirty environment.
The man is Abel Morales (played by Oscar Isaac from Agora). The question is whether he is a man of able morals or whether he is Abel, the first murder victim. He runs a medium-sized home heating oil business. The main plot concerns his attempt to move up to the big leagues by buying several large riverside oil tanks and a dock. This is an ambitious and visionary move on his part, as it will allow him to buy fuel in the summer when it is cheap and sell it in the winter when it’s expensive."
"The year of the title is 1981, when street crime in New York City was at its highest and political and business corruption was common. A Most Violent Year (2014) is the story of a principled businessman trying to stay clean in a dirty environment.
The man is Abel Morales (played by Oscar Isaac from Agora). The question is whether he is a man of able morals or whether he is Abel, the first murder victim. He runs a medium-sized home heating oil business. The main plot concerns his attempt to move up to the big leagues by buying several large riverside oil tanks and a dock. This is an ambitious and visionary move on his part, as it will allow him to buy fuel in the summer when it is cheap and sell it in the winter when it’s expensive."
Boy, this hit home. As the years have gone by and the insurance industry's control of the practice of dentistry has grown to almost complete control, I am finding it almost impossible to be perfectly clean and stay in business, especially as 99% of my colleagues are corrupt in their dealings with the insurance companies. I see the day coming when I may have to choose between allowing corruption to creep in or going out of business. I hate it.