Financial Crisis for Dummies

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 2016)

As you follow the non-fictional story of 'The Big Short', you tragically realize how easy it was for director Adam McKay and his writers to create a comedy out of such an insane reality.
The film follows the life of those who were able to predict the crash of the housing market three years before it happened, back in 2008. But this is not a movie about heroes or fighters for the truth. It's about a diverse group of despicable money managers and traders who decided to profit from catastrophe through an erratic financial system.
As terrible as it is to see how the action unfolds into disaster, it is also a useful lesson for those (like me) who don't comprehend the financial lingo and never completely understood what caused the recent stock market crash. The plot is presented in a rather simple narrative and, along the film, you are provided with a couple of humorous intermissions where some unexpected celebrities dumb down the financial terms and concepts that are being introduced in the story.
So, it's not just about Steve Carell showing you how good of an actor he is by making an everlasting bad hair day work or about Ryan Gosling showing you well, himself. The movie is a rather functional and entertaining tool for those who want to grasp what the insane reality of Wall Street really is.