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| The poster for J. C. Chandor's Margin Call implies that stuff will go down in more than one sense ... |
QUICK REVIEW:
We follow the events of a major Wall Street company in a 36 hour timespan, as one fired employee's memo reveal to all that their values are turning obsolete, which leads to a fire sale.
I was positively surprised at how soberly this, one of the only films so far to deal with the 2008 financial crisis treats its subject, SPOILER not even spicing it up with a single murder. It is the auspicious independent feature debut from writer-director J. C. Chandor (All Is Lost (2013)), and even its score (by Nathan Larson (The Skeleton Twins (2014))) is very minimalist. It is based on the goings-on in major Wall Street companies like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
The film contains many good scenes with top-acting Kevin Spacey (House of Cards (2013-15)), Jeremy Irons (Appaloosa (2008)), Demi Moore (Bobby (2006)) and Paul Bettany (Firewall (2006)).
Margin Call is an excellent film and a good introduction to some of the reasons for the financial downfall that struck the world; but it might bore those who are not interested as such in the clever shenanigans of free-falling Wall Street crooks.
Chandor has most recently released A Most Violent Year (2014) and has co-written the coming Deepwater Horizon (2016), based on the major 2010 oil spill.
Watch the trailer for the film here
Cost: 3.5 mil. $
Box office: 19.5 mil. $
= Huge hit
[Margin Call was extremely highly regarded by a wide range of US critics, and Chandor got an Oscar-nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Nevertheless, the film only made 5.4 mil. $ in North America (28 % of the total gross).]
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Other films about the 2008 financial crisis and its consequences?
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