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    The Big Short

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    Good movie on all level, very educative, amazing cast, they all shine.

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    mike@  29.3.2016 age: 36-49 9 reviews

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    It's difficult to put a proper rating on this movie because I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would if I had understood all the financial techno talk. The acting is good. Steve Carell really took center stage here. I thought he was even better than Christian Bale and I didn't expect that. If you seem to get lost in the lingo, there is a part about halfway in the movie (the casino scene with Selena Gomez) that explains in simple terms what the point of the movie is if you are patient enough to get there. From then on, the movie came into its own for me and made more sense. It makes us realize that sometime not too long ago there was corruption inside our financial institutions and it was widespread. A lot of people in very high places knew about it and did nothing. Some of them were even in on the deal. The end result was that it made victims out of hundreds of thousands of people in the working class who paid for those with no moral backbone. They lost their jobs, their homes and some even lost their lives. Where there is money to be made there will be corruption, there will be evil. There is a scene where Micheal Burry (Christian Bale) plays drums on Pantera's "By demons be driven" and I thought how appropriate. It reminded me of the old french saying "le demon de l'argent". The lure of money and profit can really demonize people, make them loose their souls. This movie demonstrates this pretty well I thought.

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