A Well Acted, Playful Underdog Film About Corruption on Wall Street

Rating: 9/10 (5 October 2019)

The film makes very apparent its attempt to make audiences understand the often prestigious world of Wall Street. I admired the celebrity cameo explanations and graphic representations of various terms throughout the film. They both helped me follow the story and added a good bit of humor and spontaneity. But what I loved most about the film was the acting. Christian Bale, who has surely solidified his place among my favorite actors, does an amazing job as the socially inept Michael Burry. Additionally, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and the other cast of supporting actors did a great job in their roles. I felt they really captured the wrought emotion and tension of the whole situation they were coming into, and it gave the film a deep sense of realism, which intrigued me even further. "The Big Short" is not a film about a finance or economics, but about the stories of individuals attempting to reveal a corrupt system in a true underdog, "Chicken Little"-like endeavor.