Martin Scorsese is one of the best American directors ever existed. Very few people would disagree. Many would even sign a statement like this one with no doubts. His major virtue? He is a daring movie-maker. When he is making a movie he searches for perfection as well as for strong and stimulating stories. Even in his movies that didn’t achieve success within the spectators or the critics we can find these characteristics. This is the case of “The Age of Innocence”, Scorsese’s movie based on Edith Wharthon classical book. The book and the movie criticize the bourgeoisie of New York City in the nineteenth century. The worst critics are the ones related to the highest society, the richest people of this city. The major problem is that this social class, responsible for the destitution of the nobility from the political power and social status in Europe, the bourgeoisie was kept as a hostage of the barons, counts, viscounts and duchess because they maintained the typical behavior and most of the habits of the nobles. In ocassions such as banquets and parties, whenever there was a new play in the theather or an opera, in their luxurious mansions decorated according to the patterns used by the European nobility in their chateaus and palaces, the north-american burgeoisie tried to show to everyone their wealth and power. If the clothing did not follow the same style of the eighteenth century (when the nobility ruled over Europe), it was still used to demonstrate autorithy and class, because of that, it was very usual to use silk and velvet, fur coats, top hats and classy coats. If the burgeoisie were not found to laziness, so often among the European nobility, the north-americans gave at least the opportunity for relaxation in their private gardens, countryside houses, clubs (used as a chance to show to everyone else that they were phisically in good shape, as well as financially), or travelling through the world, specially in Europe. Besides that, the burgeoisie showed up to everyone else as a social class in which happiness was a constant part or their familiar and professional behavior when, most of the time, this was not what was really happening. It seemed necessary to illude other components of this high society that there were no failures or losses in their private affairs. Pure hipocrisy…