In the movie, George Clooney plays a well-known financial TV host. He talks in the show, with jokes and funny dances, and recommends a variety of popular financial products to the audience. The funny and interesting shows are full of appeal. , Many ordinary people follow his advice to invest.
But in fact, the predictions he made in the show are based on the corresponding inside information as a reference, which makes his recommendations often invincible. Until one time, a certain stock he recommended suffered a so-called computer failure, which caused the stock price to plummet, evaporating 800 million in market value overnight. This caused serious losses to the audience who trusted him.
The story of the film officially began from then on. When everyone performed exaggerated sections explaining the stock market as usual, a man like a courier, Kyle, rushed into the studio. He took out a pistol at the moment when everyone thought it was a new and funny stalk, shot in the air and immediately The host was hijacked and put on a homemade bomb vest.
Then he asked all the staff to keep the live broadcast and said to the TV camera: I came here today because I have something to say. Although I am a person with a gun, they are the real evil people.
Kyle is just a truck driver with an hourly salary of $14. He has no distinctive background or skills worth mentioning. He is a miserable little man who lives in a cruel metropolis and is unknown. He looked at his upcoming son and the house loan, and decided to use his mother's inheritance to give it a go. He used all his savings of $60,000 to buy the uncompromising stock that the host said. But the result was that his life savings were instantly wiped out, which forced him into a desperate situation, ready to take risks and find reasons for all the people who suffered unexplained losses like him.
Obviously, in the movie, Kyle represents ordinary people who don't know anything about financial markets and the investment industry but try to profit from them. So they will blindly believe in TV shows and the seemingly credible news on the Internet, desperately invest their life savings, and foolishly believe that the sky will really fall. This is exactly the same situation and psychology as many victims of online fraud in China.
And the host represents those media who talk about it in order to attract attention and increase the ratings. They collect information, integrate resources, and then throw out their opinions irresponsibly in the show, and confidently guide the audience how to invest, just like giving everyone a beautiful and unattainable glass dream.
But when the dream was broken, Tuqiang saw that the class antagonism divided by money broke out. This allowed Kyle to choose the most direct and popular way, appealing to his anger and demanding the truth. In the beginning, the host was only cautiously dealing with Kyle’s guns, hoping to find a way to compensate the victims, but as the information from all parties continued to integrate, he gradually discovered that this loss incident was not simply a "computer failure", but It is a man-made conspiracy.
So when they were held hostage in the studio, Julia, the producer of the director's joint program, the expatriate reporter, etc., also rushed out to collect clues about the incident, trying to find out the truth of the incident. The movie scene moves between the front and back of the camera and the outside scene, presenting the emergency situation that counts against every second in a unique way, coupled with the independent and tough actions of the police, making the whole incident more exciting and thrilling.
The movie has a total length of 98 minutes and is always telling the hijacking incident. What's more interesting is that the movie basically advances the story according to the actual time, which makes people feel like watching an unexpected event in the TV news. The movie did not spend a lot of time introducing the lives or personalities of the three main characters, but as the plot developed, they naturally brought out their respective characteristics.
The event participants, the broad audience watching the live broadcast, and the instigators behind the accident formed three very clear opposition groups in the movie. Two details in the movie are very shocking:
One is that after the host found out the reason for Kyle's desperate bet, he tried to control the stock price rise by manipulating all audiences together to save everyone's loss. He was facing the camera in the live show and said very sincerely to all the audience. He came up with his perfect plan: as long as millions of viewers in front of all TVs and computers buy a little bit of the stock at the same time, a large amount of instantaneous purchases can increase the stock price and deceive computer algorithms. Higher demand creates value, and the price of the stock will rise.
In this way, the hijacker Kyle can get back his own investment, the host can be rescued accordingly, and the audience can get a share of it. It is a perfect plan for win-win-win.
But even when he confessed so sincerely and prayed for everyone to pay a small amount of money to save his life, no one bought it. On the contrary, the audience in front of the TV looked indifferent, even mocking his blind self-confidence. Some people may think that this is because the audience no longer believes in the host, but in fact it is because the audience does not see the possibility of making money.
After all, money plays a decisive role. As mentioned earlier, these audiences are people who don’t know anything about financial markets. They don’t see the possibility of a win-win-win plan in the plan mentioned by the host. They only know that this stock has evaporated 8 overnight. Billion, it's not worth buying again.
The other scene is the end of the movie. The hijacker Kyle, the host and the director together finally find out the truth of the matter. Kyle, who had achieved his goal, unrelentingly released the so-called homemade bomb, but it was just a pile of clay switch, in exchange for a police bullet, and was shot and killed in the end.
The camera turned to all the crowds watching the live broadcast in cafes, bars, and streets. Everyone stared at the TV in silence or surprised. Five seconds later, the earth continued to rotate. The passers-by on the side of the street stepped their legs and bowed their heads and continued to walk forward. The spectators in the bar picked up the beer and found the next person to chat. The little brother in the coffee shop lowered his head and continued to play his table football.
It was as if the scene just now never happened, it was like the person who fell in a pool of blood had never existed before, and it was like the shocking scam revealed in the live TV broadcast had nothing to do with them.
Not only the audience, but even the protagonists did not continue to pay attention to the incident. They just watched another TV show, and the black hand behind the scenes drove the sports car to be investigated. Instead, they talked about what the next show should say, and even complacent with the huge ratings brought by this incident.
Although the movie did not start there, it is indeed the real reality. For five seconds, the silence of the spectator is only five seconds, and the world may stop for five seconds for the dead Kyle. But after five seconds, life remains the same. There are too many similar real cases happening around us. As a film review, I won’t say much. Everyone knows the truth.
What Mr. Lu Xun refers to as "spectators" is actually not only aimed at the people, but perhaps everyone in the world is the same.
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