The core contradiction in the film is that Kyle himself is only a driver with an hourly salary of $14. He is struggling to survive in the costly New York. As a result, after discovering that his girlfriend is pregnant, he decides to take risks and use his mother's inheritance to invest. As a result, he believes in investing in TV shows. Host, lost a lot of money.
The movie seems to tell us that McNulty, as the company’s chairman and head of the fund, misled the masses, and George Clooney, as the host of a TV show, was responsible for Kyle’s harm because he was irresponsible for his words.
But if you want to say that TV show hosts are responsible, the next thing to discuss is the issue of the First Amendment to the Constitution. If this amendment is established, the host can say whatever he wants to say on TV. Under the current system, if the audience is not satisfied with what the host of the TV station said, they just don't watch his program. Generally speaking, if the audience is misled by the media, most of the problem lies in the audience and not in the media. If the media should take full responsibility for what they say, then the First Amendment will no longer exist.
If McNulty is to be said to be responsible, then it involves the nature of capitalism. Even the Chinese stock market has publicized that investment is risky, and you need to be cautious when entering the market. Any investment will have risks, and any return is proportional to the risk. McNulty said at the end of the film well that investors did not lose popularity when making money, so why should someone shoot when they lose money? In the film McNulty really did something wrong, but Kyle didn't know it before. He just thought he had the right to use a gun to intimidate others just because he lost money. In the film, in order to make Kyle a little bit of justice, McNulty is arranged to be guilty, but what if he is just a general CEO? If you accidentally do a wrong business, you need to be shot?
Even if McNulty is wrong, so the wrongdoers are in debt, why should other program staff (also ordinary people work) be threatened and intimidated? All the police need to work overtime to stop the heartbeat? Taxpayers have to pay for the whole thing?
Finally, shouldn't the person in charge of this matter be Kyle? Investing in this kind of thing is originally willing to bet and lose, and it is your own problem to make wrong judgments after listening to the wrong opinions of others. Living in New York is not easy, so he can either move to a lower-cost place or go to school to increase his income. It is not easy for the poor anywhere, but life in the United States is much easier than elsewhere. Just as a person with a job in the United States and another $60,000 inheritance, Kyle's life case is proportionally high in the world, even in the United States, and even among the best (compared to developing countries).
As long as Kyle lives a simple life, doesn't make mistakes in major events (such as drug use, drop out of school, etc.), and does not want to take advantage (such as making investments that he does not understand), there is actually no problem in living a middle-class life. He paid the price for his greed and ignorance. Why did he hurt others?
The U.S. system does have many problems, but after seeing someone who can save two houses with the job of sweeping the floor, I can hardly imagine that the system problem is more serious than the personal problem.
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