I watched a comedy/drama last night, about how to take advantage of bad business deals (financial housing market):
it's based on a true story that happened eight years ago, in 2008.
The Big Short
Unlike
Spotlight it's about money, housing, America, mortgages, Americans working hard and raising their families, people working in offices and putting a lot of energy calculating how to be greedy in front of their PC screens. ...It's about a bunch of young punks, heavy metal music, shorts and t-shirts, walking barefoot, and stuff like that.
It's very funny to see the behind the scenes on how some schmucks only care about control and making lots of money @ the expense of other's great suffering, watching them degenerating deeper into monsters. But it's all fair game; people should watch out for their life savings and mortgages. ...And the banks, and loans, and all the economy of this country.
After all this is the land of opportunity in a capitalist system full of flaws, holes and financial corruption. And it's not about to change ever. ...1929, 2001, 2008 and just wait for the next one...real soon.
Unlike
Spotlight with the rape of our children and the people @ the top letting it happened for generations and generations and still today,
The Big Short is about the rape of all hard working American families and the annihilation of their financial resources and life's savings, plus their homes and their jobs...becoming homeless and jobless.
...While some young punks are becoming multi-millionaires with the help of those same banks dealing with the hard working American families.
It is a triumph of the American empire @ its best and worst and the film reflects just that, but misses the most important part...the many suicides that followed those 2008 events.
The Big Short; see it and let me know right here what you think of the film.
It's not a sci-fi flick for sure, it is way more sci-fi than any sci-fi flicks surpassing the worst of realities. ...It's surreal reality, twisted greedy minds and grinds. ...Axing their own heads and taxing other's heads.
It's not about sound waves and CGI effects either; so don't wait for that.
The Blu-ray is what it is, fine for what it is. And if you have a DTS:X decoder it'll give you sounds from above, not just all around.
If I was going to rate the film (I've read about the real story), I would give it, out of 100, →
66
It's fascinating, and disturbing, to read about all the real events leading to this, and with its background players who today enjoy a life of luxury and riches.
And the more you read and understand all the ramifications, the more you wonder why they let it happens without anyone going to jail. This, is America...our justice system?
Watch the film, get real info (because the film offers only few glimpses of the real people, and of the events - much more elaborate than what we saw), and see how you feel and react to the deeper consequences...which are going to affect our economy and the people living in it for generations to come.
♦ Bonus (video comparison among top 2015 films):
