Flick Chick here once again in the pursuit of truth, justice and keeping you from spending your hard earned money on movies that don’t make the grade! Last night I grabbed my investment guide and headed into the Bangor Mall Cinemas to see 'The Big Short'.

This film runs 2 hours and10 minutes and is rated : R for pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity. The movie stars Christian Bale, Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt.

Summary:

This is the story in most part of the time leading up to the collapse of the National banks and the aftermath. It follows the lives of four different stock broker / analysts who saw the problem and began to plan how they would cash in on the eminent tragedy and perhaps make the banks pay for their greed, mismanagement and lies.

Review:

I was a little surprised at the effect on my emotions from getting more of the details behind the collapse of our banking industry. It really wasn’t lack of foresight or miscalculation. It was greed and lies and more like a grab and run. Add to that, this movie isn’t really about idealistic whistle blowers. It is about the guys on Wall Street whose job it was to see a trend and capitalize on it, and they did. This movie is so well done and the acting superb. That said, that does not glaze over the fact that greed didn’t just take over the mortgage industry, Wall Street and those brokers who sold all the bad loans but it also prayed on the average person’s desire to believe what they had to know deep down was too good to be true yet everyone else was doing it so why not. Makes us look like the sheep to slaughter that we were and confirms categorically that people with money don’t receive justice. We pay, always and in their mind we are numbers and completely expendable so why not. So if that is a feeling you can enjoy on a scale of 1-10 I am giving 'The Big Short' a 9 for artistic merit and a 6 for being content that sucks the life out of you.

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