Starring- Steve Carell, Christain Bale, Ryan Gosling, Finn Wittrock, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, and Brad Pitt.
Directed By- Adam McKay.
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Mark Baum- "We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually, you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did"
Great movie for anyone interested in the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis of '07-'08. Outstanding and unique docudrama that also includes many flashes of brilliant comedy. Very few people know how close we came to a second Depression. This movie exposes the greedy white men and poorly run system that allowed this to happen. I got very attached to the film. It really touches our mind. It provokes us in the first 10 minutes that what were the losses faced by the banks after the crisis.
The film visually explains how and why AAA grade mortgages, subprime mortgages, and intermediate grades of mortgages were mixed up and misrepresented as a wholly AAA financial instrument. They use blocks of wood stacked in a column with AAA blocks at the top and subprime blocks at the bottom. It does not explain the bailout of the banks.
Money is a very powerful thing, but what would happen when they were about to lose that power? In this biographical comedy, four strangers deduce that the stock market is on the brink of collapse. Since no one is doing anything about it, these four decide to make a fortune before it all comes tumbling down. With the clock ticking and the prices dropping, the reality of this meltdown comes crashing with it. Money practically built this country and its infrastructure. To see it crash and many people lose everything they worked for is something that no one wants to see.
Christain Bale and Steve Carell are notably excellent in their roles, Marisa Tomei portrays Carell's character's wife, although it's a relatively small role. Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Brad Pitt all play superlatively determined characters in a film that pleasingly explains the financial crash. But it is a tightly scripted, expressive, and well-paced film that will keep the more intrigued viewer glued to the end. And we all know what happens in the end. You gotta be patient with this movie.
The representation of women in this film was terrible. We had Margot Robbie talking about sub prime lending in a bath tub, Selena Gomez sat next to an intellectual talking about bonds, and a stripper who was topless while the camera panned over her body while she spoke about her finances. Then the only female banker was only showed as wanting a baby, reducing her to her biology.
It would've been a life long dream for many people to watch Steve Carell and Brad Pitt together in a same movie. And these two killed their respective roles.
My Rating- 7/10.
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