"What's the definition of madness? It's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By this standard, we're all crazy, crazy for what we believe, just crazy time. It's a little different, but how many people can go mad at the same time with this lifestyle?"
Like other films that describe the Wall Street financial system, this film also attempts to reflect the greed and madness of human nature through the ups and downs of the characters in the system.
The movie opens with the release of a stock trader for insider trading. During his 8 years and 127,000 hours in prison, his wife went mad, his only son died of an overdose, and the rest One is no longer in contact with his daughter. The irony is that his daughter hated Wall Street because of him, but fell in love with another Wall Street stock trader, but compared to other mercenary investors, this young trader is not yet in the money Lose yourself.
Those high-sounding Wall Street elites and bigwigs in the film talk about the bright future of the future, completely disregarding their moral bottom line, because they only care about whether there are two more zeros in the account. In this system of lies and deceit, if one lie can make up for the other, everything looks good, the music doesn't stop, and the dance goes on. Until one day, with a "bang", the "bubble" burst, and the leaders of a group of liars sat together, thinking about who would bear the biggest loss, and who would be the "philanthropist" who solves the problem.
In the movie, Breton used his personal funds to take advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis to short the stocks of the "Sabel" investment bank, and then showed the charitable side of saving the market at an insulting price, which directly forced the partner of the investment bank to commit suicide. All of this was done because he illegally participated in securities trading as a stock trader, and his friend, Gordon Gage, who was released at the beginning of the film, was arrested for the same thing. He reported that he was imprisoned, and had to make people feel that people under this system fell into "Moral Crisis", and this word is precisely the phenomenon that Gordon Gage, who was released from prison at this time, criticized in his new book.
However, at this time, Gordon Gage has become a preacher who sees through the hypocritical face of Wall Street, telling about the changes in his life caused by the prison disaster, and the ugliness and greed of human nature in the world of money that he has learned. With the help of Jacob, his transformation and sincerity touched his daughter Winnie, and the father and daughter were reconciled, showing warmth. When I saw this in the movie, I once thought that Gordon and Jacob teamed up to kill Breton with his $100 million in Swiss Bank. I didn't expect this man who said he hated Wall Street to take advantage of the naivety of his daughter and son-in-law. , washed away the $100 million, and started stock trading again.
After realizing that he was deceived, Jacob confessed to Winnie the fact that he secretly helped her father get close to her. At this time, Winnie felt deeply deceived again. In desperation, she chose to leave Jacob. The ultrasound image of his son (Winnie is pregnant) found Gordon and asked him to return the $100 million belonging to Winnie, but Gordon refused.
At this time, the opening lines of the movie are spoken under the helpless figure of Jacob, which makes people feel indignant and helpless. The indignation is that a person can abandon precious family affection for the number on the account, but the helplessness is that money can not only distort human nature , but also make people unable to extricate themselves.
Of course, at the end of the film, the end of the return to the good side of human nature is given. Breton, who has done many injustices, was imprisoned because of the incident, and the unrepentant Gordon Gage supported Winnie and Jacob for his grandson. billion dollars.
It's just that the beginning of the film is accompanied by a narration of Gordon Jacob's release from prison, "You want to know the mother of the bubble who it is? Came out nowhere by chance, they called it the Cambrian Explosion", maybe "bubble" It is the indelible by-product of the birth of "human", which comes silently and leaves "extremely gorgeous".
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