learning the wrong lesson from fictions

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-wallstreet5-2008oct05,0,478549.story
"'Wall Street's' message was not 'Greed is Good'"
the LA Times
by Stanley Weiser
October 5, 2008

Here, the author discusses how, for some reason, a great many people have come to admire Gordon Gekko, when the ulterior point of the movie is that it is bad to be Gekko. I suspect that this is because the relation between Gekko's character and his fortunes is contingent (though I shouldn't speak without having seen the movie...), or at least appears to be so to his admirers. As Glaucon might have said, the movie doesn't show why justice, in and of itself, is good or bad for the soul. Indeed, the movie very neatly falls into the criticism that Adiemantus makes: it implicitly endorses the view that injustice would be great, if we could just get away with it.