The Big Short Movie Analysis

School teaches students many subjects like mathematics, history, science, writing and so on. We go to class sit down for some hours get up and go to another class. This routine goes on and on until students graduate. What is a problem here you may ask? Well, according to the author of Excellent Sheep, William Deresiewicz, many. Students go on to their career choices not knowing the reason to their actions. The movie The Big Short is an example of what happens when students don’t think for themselves but act to meet a standard or set of rules. Then after a while they are in a habit of doing things to satisfy those sets of rules. The problem might not be the students but the system itself that “manipulates” students actions for the benefit of themselves. When we take a look what William Deresiewicz talks about in his book we can see a reflection of those actions in the movie The Big Short. In the movie the whole topic of it was the financial …show more content…
We can see this in the book as the Elite schools that want more people to apply and those who apply have to have not only three extra curriculum but also more AP classes and higher SAT/ACT scores. Deresiewicz talk about how at first institutions took in the best looking kids and those who had connections to important people. That was shown in the movie when two entrepreneurs wanted to be part of CHASE but got denied for not having the required amount of money that CHASE required. The bank itself didn’t bother to look at the way they obtain their gains but rather how much they had. Like stated before it all comes down to how much the institution will gain regardless of the students’ character or even motivation. Teaching students how to look at numbers and not implementing real life to their thinking. I mean at the end they are still a number and that’s how students go on to their career