The Big Short

Filled with a righteous anger towards the people who instigated a global economic meltdown, The Big Short accomplishes it’s ultimate goal: to make comprehensible the disaster that had been purposely obfuscated by the financial wheeler-and-dealers who created the problem.

I would have liked to see more about the personal lives of the main characters – Steve Carrell’s character’s interludes were fascinating and moving pieces of drama – or to perhaps have a fifth character representing anybody and everybody who lost everything to the Great Recession. However, that is what I wish for and not for what the film is; making an entertaining film about economics is no easy task and I salute what the entire team did here.

Watch the clip below for a fascinating explanation from The Big Short about why the sub-prime mortgages blew up the housing economy