Why you should watch The Big Short...
That subject is the American financial collapse of 2007, triggered by the sale of countless unstable mortgages that could never be paid off. As the housing market gave way, investors who had backed it lost billions.
This movie follows a few people who bet the bubble would burst – though that had never happened in American history – and invested in “default swaps,” which would pay off only if the market collapsed. They became enormously rich and made zillioniares of backers who thought they weren’t crazy.
Adam McKay did an amazing job, because he has spent his life in comedy. He can sense when our eyes might glaze over and snap them open with a shock. He knows how to pace a film without dwelling too long on any character or element. He has a sense of the absurd, which anyone handling this material would need.
His most brilliant stroke may have been celebrity appearances when the material turns dry. Ryan Gosling plays a lizard-eyed banker who enriched himself vastly and narrates the film. Every so often, he says things like “I know this sounds confusing. Here’s Margot Robbie in a bubble bath to explain it to you.” Sure enough, the star of “The Wolf of Wall Street” turns up in a sea of bubbles, sipping champagne, to discuss some abstruse economic concept.
Most interestingly, perennially skeptical trader Mark Baum (Steve Carell, who stands out) can’t believe the housing market could die and sets out to prove it won’t. To his surprise, all the evidence tells him the union of shameless lenders and gullible homebuyers is like the marriage of dynamite and a gasoline-soaked torch.
You can’t call these guys anti-heroes. They’re like someone finding a wallet with no identifying marks and a wad full of cash in the middle of a desert: Who wouldn’t keep it? They are betting, as so much of America does every day, on the rise and fall of other people’s investments.
This was another Money Movie you can`t miss , believe me your head will roll after this movie. It is one of the best movies of 2015 , i will go and watch it now for the third time . :)) See ya later steemit.