CINEMA Of heists and hedge funds: The Big Short*

The Big Short is an angry film, a hyperactive rage against the perfect storm of stupidity, shortsightedness and fraud that sparked the 2008 financial crisis. The film seeks to explain what happened through the stories of those few individuals who saw the crisis coming and saw a way to profit from it. The movie opens with Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) letting us know about the boringness of banking in the 1970s, and how one clever man, Lewis Ranieri (Rudy Eisenzopf) developed the mortg…

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