Although I can't remember what Madoff himself looks like, I feel that Robert De Niro's style is quite harmonious.
The movie is "Fraud Master", about the Madoff fraud case, which was crowded out during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. The amount exceeds $60 billion. According to some details given in the film, Madoff started this Ponzi scheme for 15 years, and if it hadn't been for the last mortgage crisis, it might not have ended.
The more exciting part of this movie, or to be more precise, the more interesting place for people who like financial markets, starts after the halfway point of the movie. At that time, Madoff began to cheat money everywhere in order to fill the hole. Some people get scammed, and some people find the problem. Although they couldn't say what the specific problem was, their keen sense of smell allowed them to escape. There was an old man who sensed a problem just by virtue of one illogical detail. It's all common sense at work.
Madoff's two sons, one committed suicide, the other died, this may be his greatest pain. He was sentenced to 150 years in prison, but he will get used to the loss of his freedom, but his two sons are gone. For Madoff, what is the room for relief?
The film is a biographical film, and there's not much to talk about other than the story itself. I have "studied" the Ponzi scheme more carefully for a while. There are things that are everywhere in life, but some luck is good, and there is no explosion.
How a Ponzi scheme collapses is a run. When all stakeholders make withdrawals at the same time, the Ponzi scheme naturally cannot be redeemed. And the bank, more or less, has such characteristics. No bank in the world can take out the money of all depositors at the same time. Many U.S. banks that collapsed in 2008 were run to death in this way, and they themselves did not have any fraud or investment mistakes, just because they were run.
(A lot of people darker than Madoff are probably still at ease. It's all about seeing who gets unlucky.)
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