This is a superb drama with exquisite acting by a cast of unknowns.
Tell me again, why we pay A list actors and actresses to paint the same lame expression on their faces, and to keep it there for two whole hours of emotional roller coaster ups and downs?
My Grandpa Howard with Alzheimer’s can do that trick, too.
The protagonist made her fortune on Wall Street with an uncanny ability to anticipate market fluctuations. The film portrays this skill as a fiscal clairvoyance. It’s more likely a physical computer model, billions of lines of code simulating the entirety of the market, politics, and the condition human.
The best mathematical minds in the world devote themselves to elaborating these algorithms. (Who said Ph.D scientists aren’t greedy?) Add RSS feeds from all the major media outlets, a healthy portfolio of options, futures, dividends, and derivatives.
Viola! My little nephew could be a billionaire with a tool like that, before he can spell “Waal Stret” with his big wooden blocks.
Add 50:1 leverage, and who needs to spell anyway? This little squirt is a real genius.
The gal’s husband is filthy rich as well. He’s into fashion marketing. You know, the science of making people unhappy with their entire wardrobe before the shirts are soft and comfy, the shoes are worn in, your feet are blister free, and your bank account is back in the black.
Sorry, even in my heart of hearts, I couldn’t muster any sympathy for this character when his business goes belly up.
These days, the fashion whores are even going after men’s clothing, men’s scents, even lipstick and rouge for men.
Politicians and the gay community may fall for all that crapola (I hope they go bankrupt keeping up with the latest fashions so they can always be the narcissistic center of everyone’s attention, like a pee-cock at a rooster convention), but give me soft, old, wrinkled, faded, torn, worn, shabby, threadbare, and downright sleazy clothes any old day.
This is one of the few films I have seen in quite some time where there is an extended family involved. Siblings who are actually empathetic, concerned, and even helpful. Somehow that made it by the anti-family censor drones at the Liberal Institute of Film Screeners in Hollywood Inc.
Must be the bloody awful weather in London this time of year, got their hackles raised.
