Dave and I saw this film yesterday, New Year's Eve day, 2015. It's about the 2008 world wide recession caused by the big banks playing fast and lose with sub prime mortgages and such, thereby causing millions of us regular folks to lose everything. But, as you may remember, the banks came out smelling' like roses (due to us bailing them out) and only one banker went to prison.
Sure doesn't seem like a comedy.
It's based on a true story and stars four super famous, good looking, successful actors made to look all middle class and scruffy. We were ready to leave about 15 minutes in, but didn't. At the finish I left feeling depressed, smarter and scared for the future.
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| Scruffy Steve Carrell |
But it's a good movie. And a good learning experience. None of us understood what was actually happening except these four guys and (maybe) a handful of evil bankers. The rest of them were so greedy it rendered them stupid.
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Margot explaining how the bankers
almost destroyed the world economy
before kicking us out of her bathroom. |
However, in the film, we were provided with three vignettes (cameos) describing what caused the housing bubble in ways that all of us can understand. For instance, the first cameo shows strikingly beautiful actress Margot Robbie sitting in a bubble bath, drinking champagne, and educating us a bit.
The next cameo is of super chef Anthony Bourdain in his restaurant describing the problem by showing us his three day old fish being
made into a stew that's brand new. Hence, it's fresh.
The last cameo is Selina Gomez in Vegas, at the tables, giving us a banking lesson.
As I said, we left the theater smarter and terrified.
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