The Big Short--We Were All Duped

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2016)

"The Big Short", based on Michael Lewis's book, is a film that wildly fluctuates between comedy and deadly serious criticism of Wall Street.
The producers, shouting out "Finance For Dummies", follow a group of outlier financial analysts who predicted and bet on the fall of the U.S. housing market. 2011's "Margin Call" told a similar story. "Wolf of Wall Street" also focused on investment banking as one excessive party, with attempts at humor.
More a powerful expose of the securities market and how Wall Street bet against the ignorance of the average investor, "The Big Short" sometimes does entertain the viewer as we laugh at ourselves for our guileless trust in those folks who duped us out of billions of dollars of our hard-earned money. We feel the horror of understanding that on Wall Street greed trumps common sense. Read my entire review at: www.unhealedwound.com