Everyone hates poetry

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2016)

Great drama moves you. It excites you. Scares you. Makes you sing. Makes you cry.
The Big Short makes you shake your fist. The Big Short is driven as much by its Iago as it is its Othello, and deservedly so.
The events in the story did happen. Many people still don't care. The Big Short gives you reason to care. That is what separates this film from being merely a documentary and turns it into high drama.
No matter your politics - mark this, like Citizen Kane, as a movie that should be seen at least once. It is not always comfortable to watch. And that is a good thing - The Big Short is a documentary of a real life horror that unfolds in slow motion, and reminds us that even after the fact - no one is listening. Because truth is like poetry.