Madoff defrauded 50 billion gold
why not?
There is a scene in the film like this: The reporter asked Madoff repeatedly to make him a little angry, so he asked "Am I an anti-social personality?" Then there was a blank space for 5 seconds.
The tone of the film is entirely to criticize Madoff. There are many scenes showing people's painful faces, trying to show the existence of a financial demon. But who is the devil? A large amount of lower-level funds are integrated into the fund, and Ponzi schemes always have people joining in one after another. So, who did he give the money he swindled to?
Those with vested interests. Capital holders. In other words, those who invest.
It can be said that he did not choose the investor, but the investor chose him. It is not that he deceived society, but that society was deceived selectively by him.
People always have strange opinions about money. In fact, you can find from the film that Madoff doesn't care about money at all. What he cares about is his reputation and achievements, his reputation. The fraud started with a one-billion-dollar loss and then intensified. Because of his great reputation and high prestige, people choose him. There are so many products with the same, higher profit, or year-on-year profit on the market, why don't people choose those? Because I believe in him completely.
People have already lost their minds in the face of money, so why are families ruined? Because the desire is too big. People are becoming more and more greedy, hoping to obtain stable and high income through a way, and the unearned thinking permeates everyone. Everyone wants to share a piece of the pie and put all their wealth into it. No one has ever doubted him, Madoff is the rule maker and the ruler of the game. He knows the rules better, so he laughs at the rules and plays with them.
In fact, what he said is not wrong. Under the background of the Wall Street financial turmoil in 2008, society needs a person to stand up as a villain and bear the scolding, questioning, and humiliation of everyone. What Madoff defrauded was nothing more than one percent of the Wall Street financial turmoil. In the financial turmoil of 2008, trillions of dollars evaporated out of thin air. Why did people never care about this? Think it is just a normal economic law?
Finance is nothing more than a bigger Ponzi scheme.
After all, Madoff did not go to court for a public trial, because among his investors were JP Morgan Chase, Swiss Bank, and a series of the world's richest elite, the richest people. Wouldn't it be ridiculous if he was involved in these people by public trial? Are you questioning the entire international financial system?
What is society? What is money? What is desire?
Can we truly recognize the role of money? Are we a normal person? Are our desires really as small as imagined?
I doubt it.
People are always compassionate to themselves, and when they encounter problems, they will subconsciously shift the responsibility to others, which is very ridiculous. It's nothing more than being unable to bear the responsibility. I have desires, but I can’t achieve them through my current efforts, and then find a simpler and more convenient way, and then feel happy when there is a profit, and feel painful when everything disappears. Isn't this ridiculous? Everyone and every victim participated, and every victim pretended to be innocent to win sympathy. Everyone seemed to be deceived by Madoff's superficial authority, and even the people at the Financial Securities Checkpoint were indifferent with the most critical evidence.
"Things that seem real are often more real than real."
Every victim is hypocritical. They are extremely delicate, package themselves as victims, win the sympathy of the society, become the majority of people who manipulate topics, become the majority of people who can resonate with society, and then take the right to speak in their own hands. This society is highly polarized. It needs such a person to become a sinner, a demon, to bear these sufferings, and to dispel the people's feelings of hatred for their work and life.
If, I mean if. They have a stable job and a stable industry of their own, so even if there is no liquidity left in their hands, they can still survive. They hold their own real estate, cars, and everything. What they lose is only the liquidity. They absolutely have the ability to start all over again, or to continue their lives.
This movie seems to question me over and over again: "Who is the real victim?"
If the Ponzi scheme can continue, then perhaps Madoff’s tricks can continue forever. And everyone is grateful for him, everyone is grateful for joining his fund, everyone is grateful for being cheated.
It's ridiculous and absurd. Even the lawyer's testimony picks out a socially influential case to refute. The entire society is controlled by emotions, and everyone is living in false emotions that are deceived. No one starts from the law, and no one tries him from a fair perspective.
They seem to have forgotten one thing, they chose to be deceived, not deceived.
I still remember that many online financial platforms ran off in the past few months, and countless people became victims.
This is very ridiculous. The bank's 4% interest cannot satisfy them, so they choose a high profit of 15% or even 30%. It is clearly written on the platform that finance is risky and investment needs to be cautious. But they still chose to join. After the platform broke down, they uttered endless excuses to excuse themselves and express their regrets. But they were the ones who made the choice, and no one forced them.
It is extremely ridiculous that people desire high returns but are unwilling to take high risks.
You want to take the risk, but you are unwilling to accept the risk when it happens. This is a kind of naive performance.
You join the financial game, and you want to earn a better life for nothing. This is an extremely absurd idea.
When the bubble bursts and nothing is left in front of you, you start to resist and start to appeal for justice, but you never remember the joy of enjoying the high interest rate.
Do not rely on yourself, but want to rely on others, rely on luck, rely on opportunities, longing for pie in the sky. This is the original sin of mankind-greed. Until the end, it is not people who control money, it is money who controls people.
Greedy controls people.
Maybe my thinking is anti-social,
but,
What is society?
What is real?
Although he committed fraud, don't forget that people also chose him at the same time.
View more about The Wizard of Lies reviews
