Did we make the monsters, or are we the monsters

Alford 2022-03-25 09:01:10

"Money Monster" is a rather bizarre financial and financial program. The host, Li, is an exaggerated and narcissistic old man. Just as the stock that Li boasted about entered a stage of plummeting, a small investor named Cole broke out. He sneaked into Lee's studio with a bomb, and asked for an explanation in front of the tens of millions of live broadcasters. Li, the buffalo who didn't pay taxes, was punished, and the other king of cowhide was lucky not to come. The wise and loyal director Patty led the entire show team to fight wits and courage for a long time, evacuating the crowd, calling the police, sending people to find behind-the-scenes answers, and even found Cole's pregnant girlfriend. , or a pig teammate who scolded Cole bloody. It turns out that this brave Cole is not as he said, punishing evil and promoting good for the deceived public, and dedicating himself to justice, he is just a coward who is greedy and a little bit of a backseat and can't even make bombs. This is the real face. Being exposed by the live broadcast, life is really difficult and hopeless.
The film also slapped Li in the face. During the period of being held hostage, Li thought of a way to make up for Cole, mobilizing all the audience to crowdfund to raise the stock price, and when he asked emotionally, "How much is a person's life worth, my life is worth How much?" When the stock price that had just turned red suddenly turned green again, yes, the public didn't like them rich people. What's even more ironic is that, after investigation, it is not the computer failure that Ebis said. The designer who designed the trading program said that neither mathematical formulas nor computers can make mistakes, but only people who make mistakes. We should have figured it out a long time ago, haven't we?
In today's era, money has become the most shining dream. If you have money, you will have everything, you can reach the peak of life, and you can do whatever you want like God. Yes, money can satisfy many desires, especially in today's increasingly fast and efficient era, it also gives people the illusion that it is easy to make money, people tend to believe in beautiful illusions, and once they taste the sweetness, they will fall All of it, I wish I could make a lot of money like killing chickens and laying eggs, but there is no wealth that is easy to get. Stocks are a gamble, and someone wins only if someone loses, but not everyone wins. So when Cole's girlfriend scolded her face to face, are all the people who lost everything because of petty cheap, as speechless and remorseful as Cole, yes, if they weren't too greedy, how could they lose so miserable.
Then again, greed is greed, deception is deception, isn't the game of money a greedy devil to deceive a group of greedy little devils? The more greedy people are, the more they understand the psychology of people's greed, especially what they have in common is that they will not stop at enough time. .
The CEO of Ebis is a hypocrite who doesn’t cry without seeing the coffin. He can’t admit his fault when a gun is pointed at his head, and he’s full of sophistry when he’s wearing a bomb, but he’s right about one thing, the law really has nothing to do with them shameless bastards You tried to kill him but got shot by the police, the world shouldn't be like this. I remember Huang Sir in "Infernal Affairs" saying that the day he first entered the industry, his brother was beaten to death by a gangster, and a few years later, the gangster came out and became the boss. He said that the world should not be like this. Can the right and wrong of the world be measured by narrow laws? Can the laws made by people really restrain the dark side of human nature?

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Extended Reading
  • Elouise 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    The plot is good, but not rigorous enough.

  • Amber 2021-12-19 08:01:14

    3.5 Half a star is added to the live premiere. The scene is similar to the horror live broadcast. Highlight 1: Pull the audience into the setting Tucao, director, photographer, photographer, hahaha! 2: The reality show is too cute and satirical 3: The plot is well controlled 4: The ending is also a satire 5: "If in China" the party is about to go online 6: The feeling of a hard movie is worthy of my favorite female director 7: My uncle fried chicken! ! ! High season! !

Money Monster quotes

  • Kyle Budwell: [snaps a pistol at him] I want you to admit it was wrong

    Walt Camby: Look nobody was complaining when it worked it's how this business plays out

    Kyle Budwell: [cocks the trigger] SAY... IT WAS WRONG

    Walt Camby: FINE! IT WAS WRONG!

    Kyle Budwell: [throws fake detonator at him] That's all I wanted to hear

  • [first lines]

    Lee Gates: Okay, here we go. Are you listening? Are you paying attention out there? Good. Because it's about to get complicated, so I'm gonna start out slow and make it nice and simple for you. You don't have a *clue* where your money is. See, once upon a time, you could walk into your bank, and they'd open a vault and point to a gold brick. Not anymore. Your money - that thing that you bust your ass for - it's nothing more than a few photons of energy traveling through a massive network of fiber optic cables.

    Lee Gates: Why'd we do it? We did it to make it go faster. Because your money better be fast - faster than the other guy's. But if you want faster markets with faster trades, faster profits, faster everything, sometimes you're gonna blow a tire. And that is exactly what happened yesterday at 1:07 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.