No one seems to have a happier life than this billionaire named Robert Miller. He has an enviable mansion in New York City, a happy family, powerful and powerful, and a beautiful young lover. He has everything a man should have, and he has what he doesn’t. It seems that life There should be nothing wrong with it.
But otherwise, the nominal millionaire has actually been exhausted. The company’s accounts have lost more than 400 million U.S. dollars due to unfavorable investments in Russia. With more than 400 million U.S. dollars borrowed by friends, he is quickly selling the company. Secretly expecting that everything will get what he wants to throw out this hot potato, while pretending that everything is okay on the surface, pretending to look like a perfect fit in front of his family and lover. What's worse is that the fact that the company's actual account losses were used by him to deal with the audit has been discovered by the woman as the chief financial officer, expressing anger and disappointment at her father's illegal behavior. Relying on his daughter's affection for his father, Robert can conceal the truth for the time being and sell the company to his opponent in order to get away quickly. But the friend who lent the money to Robert got anxious and urged him to repay the money by the deadline.
However, the worst thing happened at the same time. The underground lover asked by the billionaire overturned and died on the highway late at night while traveling with him. Robert was in great grief, but at the same time he planned how to cover his eyes and make the illusion that he was not there at the time of the incident. . He had to ask the son of the deceased black driver he had hired for many years to pick him up at the accident site, and quickly returned to the bed at home, pretending to be sleeping with his wife in order to prove that the accident was no longer on the scene.
People are not as good as heaven, because the investigation will bring things to justice. Police detectives who want to bring billionaires to justice have been using various relationships to track down the problems of billionaires. The son of a criminal record started, pressing on every step of the way, trying to take advantage of this opportunity to kill the billionaire.
Among the embarrassed on all sides, the billionaire has to pretend to sell his company on Wall Street, on the one hand to appease his daughter and the children of the black driver, and find a way to keep them still, on the other hand, he has to seek countermeasures to sell the company to him. The opponent quickly returned more than 400 million U.S. dollars to the friend who lent the money to him.
As a result, an arbitrage war between you and me began, and the billionaire used all his best to use the empty glove white wolf strategy to launch his final struggles in finance, law, and emotions. After a variety of exciting plot changes, the billionaire finally got his wish and sold the company for more than 500 million U.S. dollars. At the same time, he also asked the lawyer to use the detective’s weakness to protect the son of the black driver from criminal law. However, the billionaire not only gave a sigh of relief.
Just when we viewers thought that the billionaire could solve the problem, the last unexpected scene appeared. The wife of the billionaire Robert, the middle-aged woman who seemed to be quiet, used her assassin. She took out a pre-prepared divorce agreement and asked the billionaire to sign and transfer all of her property to his woman's charity. The battle-tested billionaire certainly did not take his wife’s request into consideration and refused to sign. However, his wife said that if he did not sign, she would report the fact that he was not at home at the scene of the car accident to the police detective and give him a reputation. Not to mention sweeping the floor, but also facing the disaster of prison. The billionaire never expected that the most ruthless character would be the wife he had always ignored! In fact, his wife has always been aware of his secret love, and the reason for pretending to be indifferent is to look at the face of the rich life of their family. Now, everything the billionaire does is on the edge of the law and hurts himself. The beautiful future of his daughter, the wife can no longer bear it! No mother is willing to watch her child be hurt by the possibility of her husband, even if the husband is a billionaire.
This story is the plot of the current movie Arbitrage. In the final scene of the movie, Robert attended the banquet to accept the award and received his daughter’s blessing on the stage. It seemed that everything was business as usual and the scenery was still beautiful, but only he knew that what was performed on the stage was just the last act of his life, and it was true. In life, he will have nothing. The things he has struggled for all his life, money, status, and family have all been burned because of the moment he took the wrong course. It is, cleverness is wronged by cleverness.
Although this is just the plot of a movie, there are many similar men in life. On the one hand, they enjoy all the benefits of fame and wealth on the surface. The catastrophe that comes, lose everything that you have.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to the excellent performances of the three main actors of the film, Tim Roth, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon, is the film director Nicholas Jarecki. The 28-year-old young director is an authentic New Yorker. He graduated from the New York University Film School and is alumni with Li Ang and Chen Kaige. This film is a film written and directed by him. As a director who started by making MV and commercials, this film established his position as a director and screenwriter.
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