A Dishonest Movie...

Rating: 2/10 (23 October 2016)

The Big Short could've been a great movie, had it taken its subject in a serious and mature way. For its subject, a pretty serious one (--the financial collapse of the economy in 2008--), is the kind of thing you need time to digest; the kind of thing you need time to actually understand, and of which plenty of real, relevant, true data will be needed if this is to be achieved. Half-truths, therefore, as the ones provided in this film, as well as the unequivocally politically biased depiction of things the authors attempt to convey to the audiences under the guise of "objectivity", are not very useful.
The whole plot of The Big Short is, indeed, nothing but a masqueraded, dishonest attempt to discredit capitalism; the audience is led to believe that those who believe in capitalist systems are nothing but immature, greedy, evil men, unlike those who don't believe in it, and which we are consequently supposed to see as "the good" (--the "good", that is, millennials, the 20 something generation, or more generally, and interchangeably with the previously mentioned, the 'intelligent', the 'brave', the 'adult', etc, etc. Sometimes, though, the "good" can also be interpreted as 'the innocent' or any other harmless and/or suffering individual. The "good", in other words, this is the whole point, is to be associated with... --yes, you guessed it right-- ... socialists and the Left in general--).
It is useful to mention, also, that although the movie's subject isn't really structured to be presented as funny (i.e., it is evident that the movie wasn't designed to make you laugh), we can still see it classified as 'a comedy' anyway. That might be, ironically, the only funny thing you'll remember about it, for The Big Short is no comedy at all. The Big Short is, rather, a biased attempt to misinform and misguide people regarding the actual causes of the financial collapse of 2008, in order to discredit a capitalist system that, on the other hand, and putting all things together, has made of this country the most successful, prosperous nation in the history of human being.
I'd say that the single, most valuable thing to keep to ourselves from this movie is that wise piece of advise that we are rightly led to infer throughout,and which touches upon our relationship to the media and the information we are fed by them, and which we might formulate as: "You shouldn't believe everything you read in the papers." (or the Internet, for what it's worth). That is, exercise some critical thinking. For, as the great man once said, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance"...
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