The Big Rip Off

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2015)

It should have been called the Big Rip Off and it shows how absurd the whole thing was. I heard people talking after the show and everyone got it. I hope many, many people watch it. The director and the actors' accomplishment is not trivial; they get across a complicated mess full of arcane words and sordid people in an entertaining two hours. Humor, perhaps irony is a better word, is used to make this stuff digestible. In the end the Big Question is who's minding the store. Nobody. Uncle Sam is too busy looking for a job at a Big Bank. In this case it was Cousin Samie instead... who ended up in bed with you know who. The movie is full of good metaphors like that. Apparently, of all people, only a young man figured out what was going to happen early on. His name is Michael Burry. All the Big Wise Men didn't, or didn't want to. We'll never know. As a footnote, Michael Burry wrote an op-ed in the NYT in 2010 asking the Big Question. Within a month he got a visit from the FBI and four audits, probably IRS, SEC, etc. You'd think Uncle Sam would want to hire him instead.