The Big Short Film Analysis

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Nhu Nguyen
History 8
The Big Short
The Big Short
It's been awhile since I've seen a movie about finance “The Big Short”.I remember a financial student who told me that: the capitalism in which capital is not easy to understand, easy to play and easy to own. Notwithstanding, I have never imagined how difficult it was and how badly these rules played out. Thus, “The Big Short”, apart from in-depth analysis the 2008 US financial crisis in real estate and stock, my knowledge about capitalist society is expanded.
From my point of view, the most impressive point of the film is the way it deals with economics, morals, and fraud. It is obvious that when we run a business, the most considerable concern is profits, to put it differently, money. Yet,
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Most of the financial movies with the terminology of securities, credit, trading floor will be too rough and hard to understand for those are not familiar with it. However, under the hands of screenwriter and director - McKay, the satirical comedy helped The Big Short become more accessible, understandable, and engaging to the audiences even with whom did not interested in and did not comprehend about this theme. Fiery footage of strippers or leggy models, handsome chefs to explain the term credit in a very normal way: COD is compared to the bowl of fish soup and it just a gambling casino in Las Vegas. Not only does it help the film lose its massiveness, the stinginess in The Big Short also highlighted the over-greed, disregard of the law, and despite others fate of the Wall Street financiers. From huge banks to small investment funds, from big bosses in the hands of hundreds of millions of dollars, even billions of dollars, to the lowest real estate professionals; all of them were blurred by the blue of the dollar. To be honest, this is a movie that I would definitely encourage my friends to watch to gain their knowledge of America

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