Like Dustbins, Peter Jackson’s film, Heavenly Creatures emphasises rich versus poor and how corruption can be deeply affected by that. Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, live in a fantasy world with dreams of becoming big-time Hollywood stars. Similarly to Gatsby and Belfort, Pauline and Juliet get caught in a frenzy of an avaricious desire for the life that they dream of. One part of corruption that almost all of these stories contains is selfishness. Pauline wrote in her diary, at new years that her, “new year's resolution is a far more selfish one than last year.” This desire to be selfish had been brought on by meeting Juliet earlier that year. Pauline came from a poorer family which contrasted with Juliet who was very wealthy. Pauline saw
