The music is about to stop - Margin Call

Bernice 2022-04-21 09:01:58

As a novice who has been studying at the Economic Management Institute, I still don't have a deep understanding of the ins and outs of the financial crisis. I just know that following the herd, I am envious of those children's shoes who can go to Goldman Sachs. I hate my father. Mom didn't make herself a genius, how can she live in the world with her IQ. I didn't start embracing the real world until I was almost 30 years old. Let's not talk about these, useless hypocritical words, and start to the point.

There are a lot of things about this movie that touched me.

- Investment banking is a magical field that attracts the smartest people in the world. MIT's Rocket Scientist, Engineer have abandoned the original profession. Joined this team. It takes about two or three years to understand a job. Junior Analyst cried in the bathroom in the early morning because he predicted that he would be fired. The boss came in to wash up, and after a night of argument, he was tired but still calm, obviously having experienced the ups and downs of the business sea.

- Are u alright?
- You are about to fire me. You know this is all I've ever want to do
- Really?

Reminds me of the first full-time job in my life in October 3 years ago, in one of the big four in CBD. At the Welcome dinner, the unsmiling big P asked everyone how they felt about the upcoming job. I still remember my answer. I am really looking forward to it. Yes, even at such an advanced age as graduate school, even with a few part-time jobs and internships, I am still looking forward to life. I believe Life will unfold beautifully and magically in front of me. Now, when I think of the lights of the CBD at night, I feel so far away. Although I still work hard, my understanding of work is quite different. I can't fully empathize with the old bird of the investment bank. Spiritual God will:

If you really want to do this with your life, you have to believe that you are necessary, and you are. Ppl want to live like this in their cars and fucking houses they even can't pay for? then you are necessary. The only reason that they all get continue living like kings is because we got our figures on the scale in their favor. I take hands off, the world will get fucking fair and fucking quickly and nobody actually want that. They say they do, but they don't. They want what we have to give them, but they also play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. That is more hypocrisy I am willing to swallow. Fuck them, Fuck normal people.

Just a few lines , making the role of finance in modern society and the inevitable boom-bubble-crash-depression economic cycle brought about by human greed at a glance. However, just like sometimes the boss himself may not fully believe it, but he still wants to encourage the children to continue to do their jobs well. Sam's speech at the mobilization meeting before the clearance was clear and powerful, which also left a deep impression on me:

Guys, I have been working in this place for 34 years, I can tell you that from experience, people are gonna say some nasty things about what we do here today, about what you've dedicated a portion of lives to. But have faith in the bigger picture, our skills have not been wasted, we have accomplished much. Our talents have been used for the greater goods.

A job, if you see it as a mission for which you put a lot of time and effort, if not for greater Goods, it's hard to hold on to it -- even for the elites with pretty nice money on Wall Street. This is the nature of human being.

With the recent twitter listing, the battle between founders has once again become a hot topic of discussion. Hearing the news of Chow Yun-fat's naked donation today, I wonder if these Silicon Valley upstarts will make a similar decision in the future - and then recalling these entanglements when I was young, I feel that I used to be so unseemly.

Finally, I wish everyone to find their own Calling, Connected to Greater Goods, Live a Happy and Meaningful Life.

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Extended Reading

Margin Call quotes

  • John Tuld: So you think we might have put a few people out of business today. That its all for naught. You've been doing that everyday for almost forty years Sam. And if this is all for naught then so is everything out there. Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It's not wrong. And it's certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 37, 57, 84, 1901, 07, 29, 1937, 1974, 1987-Jesus, didn't that fuck up me up good-92, 97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this. It's all just the same thing over and over; we can't help ourselves. And you and I can't control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-slightly alter it. We just react. And we make a lot money if we get it right. And we get left by the side of the side of the road if we get it wrong. And there have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers. Happy foxes and sad sacks. Fat cats and starving dogs in this world. Yeah, there may be more of us today than there's ever been. But the percentages-they stay exactly the same.

  • Will Emerson: Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you're necessary and you are. People wanna live like this in their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin' fair really fuckin' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, thats more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck em. Fuck normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes tits up they're gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we're wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they piss their pants cause we're gonna all look like the biggest pussies God ever let through the door.

    Seth Bregman: Do you think we're gonna be wrong?

    Will Emerson: [long pause] No, they're all fucked.

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