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Movie: Margin Call. Drama about the 2008 financial crisis. Obviously not meant to be any kind of historical retelling, but the cast is stacked and the dialogue is excellent. I rewatch it a couple times a year just because it has so many great scenes.
Here's a great scene if you want to check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7prnY2FOxns&t=11s
I get Margin Call confused with The Big Short.
I also found the storyline where they track down a fired Stanley Tucci at his home odd.
It's a microcosm play on the "we fucked ourselves and are now scrambling around having to spend even more to try to correct the mistake we made for ourselves" theme of the movie.
I never saw The Big Short, but too many people who I knew are idiots when it comes to how 2008 happened love it, so I avoided seeing it.
The one major thing that both movies unfortunately leave out is the fact that it was the federal government that made the banks offer loans to people who couldn't pay them back in the name of equity and fairness.
The Big Short is based on a Michael Lewis book, so much like Moneyball with Brad Pitt, it's more dramatized and takes lots of liberties with the truth to tell a better story.
There is some parodying of government in The Big Short.
Steve Carrell goes to the bond rating agency at one point to figure out why the subprime market isn't crashing despite being full of dogshit. It's run by some old bint who just rubber stamps everything as to not rock the boat.
There's also a scene where they meet a SEC official at a pool. She turns out to be some younger slag who is only interested in fucking the very traders she's supposed to be policing.