Professionalism is the Divide

Mortimer 2022-03-25 09:01:08

Deducting 1 star at the end is too hasty. The title margin call doesn't feel right to the essence. There is no detailed performance of ABS MBS, and even the big data force has no chance to miss the face. Tucci's description of the bridge feels good. In addition, the metaphor of the big boss about music is also, sometimes the more advanced the more information. Maybe they already knew there were landmines, but it was the moment when they had to explode.
Throughout the whole play, I really feel a kind of depression and urgency, but it seems to end before the climax. Sometimes such films mostly show the greed and desire of Wall Street, but the professionalism of Wall Street and even the entire financial industry has not been well interpreted. The boss's boss doesn't even know what the deal is? It's ridiculous and unbelievable. Don't you know what the company's biggest profit is? The layman doesn't know it, but the layman doesn't know it?
Sometimes, it feels like the actor or even the director doesn't understand these things, and the performance is overdone. It would be better if there was more professionalism and focus on Wall Street and more detail on the inside, like that bridge and that piece of music, not just prostitutes and bars.

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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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