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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Extended Reading
  • Marianna 2021-11-30 08:01:25

    A group of good actors saved a bad movie.

  • Jade 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    A star-studded financial blockbuster, the director J.C. Chandol deserves attention.

Margin Call quotes

  • Peter Sullivan: Look at these people. Wandering around with absolutely no idea what's about to happen.

  • Sam Rogers: The real question is: who are we selling this to?

    John Tuld: The same people we've been selling it to for the last two years, and whoelse ever would buy it.

    Sam Rogers: But John, if you do this, you will kill the market for years. It's over.

    [John nods grimly]

    Sam Rogers: And you're selling something that you *know* has no value.

    John Tuld: We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price.

    [Sam lowers his gaze]

    John Tuld: So that we may survive.

    Sam Rogers: You would never sell anything to any of those people ever again.

    John Tuld: I understand.

    Sam Rogers: Do you?

    John Tuld: Do *you*?

    John Tuld: [pounding on the desk] This is it! I'm telling you this is it!