Amazing how true and entertaining the story is

Rating: 8/10 (20 February 2016)

This movie was surprisingly good with great acting and an interesting depiction of what really happened to help cause the great depression. Much of the story I knew before from reading about the root causes but the movie tied it all together and added nice twists and additional details. It totally made it understandable to most although some of the parts do get financially geeky. The movie touched a nerve with me because I live near wall street, have friends that work there, have friends that entered the mortgage business at that time, and bought and sole a few homes myself at that time. This is how I know the story told in the movie to be very accurate. Accurate and true down to the scene with the strippers buying multiple homes and abandoned streets to prove it all was going to collapse. I felt the conflicting emotions of the characters who bet against the system. That is hard to do. I would not call them heroes just keen to another way to make money. The financial institutions and the government institutions that let this happen deserve all of the blame.