@sumitsays: wall street. okay, so we got stuck with “greed is good” for a quarter century. but, boy, we sure dodged a bullet on the interior design

The home decor is quite extraordinary: Charlie Sheen’s apartment, in particular, looks as though someone has tried to assemble a walkthrough version of a Max Ernst painting using only the contents of a household recycling bin.

To make the effect more bizarre still, all the characters have very earnest big-business conversations amid these surreal environments without exhibiting the slightest flicker of awareness that they appear to be trapped in an ultra-low-budget theme park attraction.

I’m not sure if Oliver Stone intended the ridiculousness of the art and interior decoration to make a satirical point or not. But given that “Greed is Good” ended up being taken seriously as a mantra by go-getting Eighties moneymen, I’m glad that their counterparts in the world of interiors proved less impressionable. At least in my experience. The very rich are different, I suppose…