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Humor, cynicism, enlightenment, and cynicism, all serve to illuminate the murkiness of the real estate bubble crisis. Played by a wonderful ensemble of actors doing their best this film is a must see for anyone who's owned a savings bond or a share of stock.
The film is steered by Gosling's narration. He's the savvy "big bank" trader that usher Carell's small firm into their early venture with Credit Default Swaps. This was all based on the foundation of work done by an eccentric MD who chose to be an investor over medicine (Bale). Pitt comes in as a former trader who had retired but agreed to use his connections to help two small fish get their foothold in shorting mortgages. The story is quite a mixture of period art direction, flashbacks, and a great number of factoids explaining definitions and characters relating to the real-life story. Interestingly, not all the stories touch each other.
Gosling was perfectly typecast as the smooth, fast talking, in-charge guy. Carell was spot on as a hyper, perpetually upset person and Bale oddly cast as the off-center guy with a ton of "issues". (Those issues seemed to feed his ability to focus on deconstructing mortgage bonds to find what a mess they were.)
Part of the cinematic payoff for the "shorters" was finally realizing that they successfully bet against the American/world economy and that those who perpetrated the crisis survived and thrived.
This is a different kind of film. Not quite a comedy nor drama and too rambunctious to be a documentary or docudrama. It seems to plow new dirt between entertainment, history, and delving the truth in understandable terms. Certainly worth seeing and very memorable.
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Even has a Mathew McConaughey character (Christian Bale). And a DiCaprio character (Brad Pitt or Steve Carell, take your pick). Besides who doesn't hate bankers and brokers?
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...Margot Robbie.
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Too many bubbles.
"To Learn Who Rules Over You, Simply Find Out Who You Are Not Allowed to Criticize."
-Voltaire
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...haven't yet seen it and forgot after reading it in the reviews.
.... Just opened hereabouts. Interestingly, about the only less than positive review I've run across was actually an opinion piece in the editorial pages of a recent WSJ....even as the Journal's movie reviewer was mostly positive about it.
...Bale's character is based on an actual person.
Sounds interesting - good.
So incredible.....seh it TN and report back.
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