The Big Short – 6

A financial primer on the 2008 mortgage meltdown dressed up as a movie, with outsized performances, frenetic cutting and comic asides apparently intended to spice up a subject the movie-going public either wouldn’t understand or would find too dull. The worst were the two goofballs from Colorado, but blustering Steve Carrell and how-weird-can-he-be Christian Bale were scarcely more realistic. In creating such a dichotomy between the established financial world that was smug and blind and the small band of outsiders that were disconnected and eccentric, the film sacrificed the drama and poignancy of real human contact that a much better movie, Margin Call, found in a similar story. Michael Lewis’s book was much better.

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