Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn) is a no-nonsense Wall Street banker. She has worked hard to get to the top of her profession, and the loads of money she makes from managing deals that involve the movement of millions and sometimes billions of dollars make her very happy. Early in the carefully structured but coolly shot film, she tells an audience of young women that she loves money. It’s that plain and simple for her. And she is not ashamed to say it. Money buys her happiness. (Incidentally, my own mother—who, besides being a university lecturer, was a successful businesswoman—used to tell me something similar when I was a teenager: “Those who say money doesn’t buy you happiness are lying.”)
