<The Big Short> 026

Release date: 2015-12-23

Type: Story

Running time: 130 mins

Recommendation Rate: ★★★★★

Four questions:

1、What’s the main idea and the message or value of the movie that the director is going to convey?

Through American subprime crisis, we can see financial organizations, banks are not in conscious, and how the Wall Street professionals earn money from this crisis. Help audiences to know what really happened during the subprime crisis.

2、Find three points that most touching or what you think is the most important details(conversation、picture or plot).

A、Michael Burry, Hedge Fund Manager, he found there will be a crisis in American real estate market, so he shorted the bond of housing morgage. He said that he doesn't know how to deal with relationships, only know numbers. With an faked eye, he did a lot of crazy research, many clients don't support him, but the result proved he is right. He is so focus on what he is doing, almost live in his office. Great people is someone who tried to do something that most people don't agree with.

B、The stripper bought five villas and one condo, she must be cheated by those agents. Don't trust people so easy, when you buy something expensive, read and research the contract and agreements seriously so that you know it well, no one will trap you.

C、The whole financial world is a big trap. They all help each other to hide the truth. So as an individual investor, how can we earn money from the stock market, there are always a lot of bosses to control the overall situation.

3、What did you learn from the movie?

Financial market is a quite complicate world. Some professionals control everything and earn bunch of money, but it's also a zero-sum game, common people are very easy to lose and lost their money to big organizations. 

4、The background of the story.

2008 American subprime crisis。