The Big Short.....It sounds like a Humphrey Bogart film doesn't it? Bogart's and Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep may
even have prompted Michael Lewis to name his book and thus the movie as
he did. I saw the film this afternoon. It's a montage of long clips
moving from one character to another for roughly 130 minutes. Christian
Bale plays one, Brad Pitt another and there other actors whose names I
read in the news but am not familiar with their work. It moves very fast
and there is a lot of suspense. The language is rough and apparently
there is humor for the audience laughed more than a few times, but to me
it was....dark.....not the theater but the message.
I'm surprised that I don't have a sore neck as I write for I sat in the second row, far right seat. I had to sit kind of catty-corner and look up to my left as a dog sitting at your feet might have to as he looks up to see what you are snacking on. It didn't matter though for the screenplay kept me riveted in that position.
The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-10 and the accompanying collapse of much of the world's economy was the subject of the film. Christian Bale's character never meets Brad Pitt's who never meets the other major name actor's characters. Some of the names have been changed but all the personalities are real. Surely there were more that saw the housing bubble rising prior to the bust but the film follows only a few that tried to make money on the collapse that they saw on the horizon. Only it wasn't quite as easy as that because the banks refused to play along with the scenario. By all rights they should have dropped the ratings on certain financial entities enabling these chosen few to score big but they didn't. They, the banks, knew what the situation was but tried to protect themselves by ignoring laws and ethics and everything else. So here is the suspense....do the main protagonists make money in the end or lose everything? You can Google all the participants after the movie if you wish for a more detailed answer than what is given.
I wanted to see this film because of the content but as the action, and it was action, progressed, I was dragged through the muck and the mire also for this is my country and my culture and society. The stain is on most of us and I'm no exception, for putting money into a 401k and forgetting about it does not absolve one of the responsibility on where and how that money is put to use. The tumor in the system is malignant. You cannot invest today in a sound and up-and-coming company as you once could for everything is too intertwined. You are at the mercy of those who live in a world of numbers. It's a Roulette Wheel.....black 17....you lose, or red....9....you win.
Proverbs 22:16 is but one of many...many...verses in God's Holy Word that address the situation that the film depicts:
"Oppressing the poor
to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich-
both lead only to poverty."
The assumption here is...'in the end' it leads to poverty, and includes a poverty of the soul.
I'm surprised that I don't have a sore neck as I write for I sat in the second row, far right seat. I had to sit kind of catty-corner and look up to my left as a dog sitting at your feet might have to as he looks up to see what you are snacking on. It didn't matter though for the screenplay kept me riveted in that position.
The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-10 and the accompanying collapse of much of the world's economy was the subject of the film. Christian Bale's character never meets Brad Pitt's who never meets the other major name actor's characters. Some of the names have been changed but all the personalities are real. Surely there were more that saw the housing bubble rising prior to the bust but the film follows only a few that tried to make money on the collapse that they saw on the horizon. Only it wasn't quite as easy as that because the banks refused to play along with the scenario. By all rights they should have dropped the ratings on certain financial entities enabling these chosen few to score big but they didn't. They, the banks, knew what the situation was but tried to protect themselves by ignoring laws and ethics and everything else. So here is the suspense....do the main protagonists make money in the end or lose everything? You can Google all the participants after the movie if you wish for a more detailed answer than what is given.
I wanted to see this film because of the content but as the action, and it was action, progressed, I was dragged through the muck and the mire also for this is my country and my culture and society. The stain is on most of us and I'm no exception, for putting money into a 401k and forgetting about it does not absolve one of the responsibility on where and how that money is put to use. The tumor in the system is malignant. You cannot invest today in a sound and up-and-coming company as you once could for everything is too intertwined. You are at the mercy of those who live in a world of numbers. It's a Roulette Wheel.....black 17....you lose, or red....9....you win.
Proverbs 22:16 is but one of many...many...verses in God's Holy Word that address the situation that the film depicts:
"Oppressing the poor
to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich-
both lead only to poverty."
The assumption here is...'in the end' it leads to poverty, and includes a poverty of the soul.
