It's all about money (spoilers)

Marlon 2022-03-24 09:02:32

The purpose of the film is clear at the beginning. Richard Gere's teacher taught him five words: money. Behind it are various characters who understand the rules of the game. Investors, lawyers, police, auditors, and judges make full use of the rules to chase Profit maximization story.

There is no violent competition, no bloody murder in this story, but it is full of coldness and indifference, just like "The world is cold" in Richard Gere's film at the end. Everyone in the film is a master who knows the rules and walks around the boundaries of the rules. Whether it’s a police officer who wants to prosecute a black man for obstruction of justice, an auditor who has made two reports for both sides, a judge who knows everything but pays attention to evidence and convicted, and a wife who knows everything from the beginning and finally shows her trump card , not to mention Richard Gere as an investor and buyer.

There are several key points in the movie. First, Richard Gere said to his daughter who found out that he had made false accounts, You are young, but not that young. By extension, society is ruthless, and rationalism and shift readiness cannot win. On the commercial battlefield, the daughter just works for him.

The second is that finally Richard Gere found the perjury provided by the police, the black man was acquitted, and Richard Gere gave the black man a huge check based on guilt. Although when we first found him, black people appeared as the only "clean" image in the film, and Richard Gere also said that he was different from us, but at the end of the film, black people still accepted the check. Richard Gere finally smiled with relief, they are even. In this mainstream social game where Richard Gere knew the rules, things finally developed in the direction he wanted under his control.

The story is based on New York. It does not take too much into several landmark buildings in New York, but it reveals the style of New York everywhere, which is cold, fast and orderly. The rules have been established, who can make fully use of the rules and win finally?

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Extended Reading
  • Tobin 2022-03-28 09:01:06

    There is no good person who can be criticized hard enough. Greed, threat, possessiveness, lust, cover-up, scramble, profit. Very good, not bad, the slightly immature footage is not in the way, a rare good movie.

  • Flavio 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    I thought that the film would end with the hero surrendering himself, and everything ended successfully with a fair judgment, but the result is very interesting. Reminds me of Child Abuse Doubt from a few years ago. This is real life.

Arbitrage quotes

  • Det. Michael Bryer: [talking on the phone] Yeah... I need a serious fucking favor.

  • Robert Miller: But this is something we've seen over and over again. Time and time again. The competition for this limited amount of dollars out there can make the best of us manic. So it's not surprising that we have these asset bubbles. But when reality sets in, of course, they burst.