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Welcome to the new millennium's "Glengarry Glen Ross". Only here a set of steak knives looks good while all around you are falling like flies. This is well-crafted Wall Street drama that takes a shot at loosely explaining "the meltdown" and how it occurred. The mechanics and technical details of the implosion are explained in somewhat obscure terms but you still feel like you're riding atop the lead Panzer in the financial Blitzkrieg that was 2008.
We see all forms of carefully crafted corporate personalities jockeying for position, playing the blame game, and exercising self-loathing. Those of you who have ridden an elevator to work will recognize, revel in, and loath each one presented to you as the story unfolds. This film not only tells us how it happened but just the kind of people who made it happen and that is the strength of the film.
For good understanding of why the Blitzkrieg that was 2008 ... took place and why it will happen again ... watch the following video.
It would make a boring Hollywood film but it's accurate.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb
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...but this one is pretty good.
More intellectually stimulating than emotionally, perhaps, but with a first rate cast.
And very well done.
I'd give it a B.
I really like the bonus features with DSK and LaGarde.
"Holy Cow"
IMHO, that was a very good film.....
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Margin Call is OK but it is something of a mess. There are all kinds of varying tones that never congeal. There are all sorts of momentary diversions that don't go anywhere. The whole structure of making one dramatic night out of it is artificial. It's OK. But the other you mention is exceptional and gets you into what really happened (at least an interpretation of part of it), not a completely made up story.
I haven't seen it. This is Glengarry Glen Ross of sorts.
William Hurt, James Woods, Bill Pullman and a gaggle of random B actors send this one way over the top into must see status. Rent it, buy it, stream it, but see it!!No naked boobies tho :(
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Edits: 12/03/11 12/04/11
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