There are few movies written about real events that stay as true as possible to the story and aren’t incredibly boring. A great film to watch and enjoy a learning session at home is The Big Short.
Adam McKay, former head writer of Saturday Night Live, takes his skill of humor and impressive brain as a researcher, to create a film about the few people who saw, from the inside, the 2008 housing market crash as it occured, before the massive damage was inflicted on the American economy.
The film uses wit to explain the housing/mortgagesystem, how it became so muddled, and why no one caught it – without sounding like a college economics class.
Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Christan Bale, Ryan Gosling, and many other familiar faces, characterize the small-time bankers, hedge-fund managers, and others who made money taking advantage of one of America’s largest economic collapses.
This film will make you frustrated at first, noticing how many people took advantage of a broken system. However, this film also causes a feeling of vengeance. As the audience, we search for the answers along with the main characters, and this film seems to give us, albeit small, a vengeful win against those who hid within the system so long.
This is a film that teaches us about something not usually mentioned in the history textbooks used in classes around the country but makes the information interesting enough to swallow from a movie at home.
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