ITALIANO wrote:the self-made (young) man, who may be selfish and weird but must still be forgiven since he's become also very rich and successful - and the movie does forgive him in the end. There's his face on the cover of Time as "person of the year", not a writer's or a scientist's. And that says alot, I think. (It also says alot about a country going through a crisis which is first of all economical, but not only.)
On this, you're right. As I've said before, the movie gives him a redemption that's entirely unearned, and worse, unexplained. It's just assumed.
But there's no way a writer or scientist is going to be "Person of the Year" in this day and age unless someone discovers the cure for cancer. Since 1927, Time's Person of the Year has meant someone who has made the greatest impact on the news that year, the person who defines that particular year. It doesn't matter if the person in question is a shit or not. Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" once.