The Sweet Smell of Success

The Sweet Smell of Success
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/]

The Gist:
The weird niche world of a press man in a muckraking newspaper, the disintegration of the American dream of capitalism, the gradual loss of moral grounding, and the objectification and subjugation of women. All these elements are fair game in The Sweet Smell of Success, a film that drags every dirty and rotten thing about society at a place and time into the mud and leaves the audience with a subtle feeling of determination. This feeling is mostly due to one character's decision to finally assert herself while those around her are left to dwell in the darkness, and we as an audience are reminded that the path of the righteous is not an easy path but one always available. Or something like that.