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THE BIG SHORT<\/strong>
\nParamount Pictures<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong>
\nGrade: B+<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Adam McKay<\/strong>
\nWritten by:\u00a0 Adam McKay from Michael Lewis\u2019s book<\/strong>
\nCast: Brad Pitt, Finn Wittrock, Christian Bale, Karen Gillan, Selena Gomez, Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei, Steve Carell<\/strong>
\nScreened at: Paramount, NYC, 11\/23\/15<\/strong>
\nOpens:\u00a0 December 11, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s too bad this movie was not set to open in October 2016 or early November of that year because after seeing it, Americans would go out to the polls and pull the lever for Bernie Sanders.\u00a0 It\u2019s even more unfortunate that Bernie will not get nominated, because if a guy like him were in the White House around about the year 2007, we might not have suffered the greatest financial critic since the Depression.\u00a0 Adam McKay\u2019s \u201cThe Big Short\u201d may confuse a lot of its audience, given the complexity of the mortgage crisis that began eight years ago and the way that McKay, adapting Michael Lewis\u2019s best-seller with the same title flashes montages across the screen at a machine-gun pace.\u00a0 But it exposes American capitalism at its worst, throwing selfish, unethical, amoral people in our faces, people who would be despised even by Adam Smith, the leading intellectual advocate of the capitalist system.\u00a0 By the time the film ends, many of us will again wonder why working people, ordinary middle-class folks, in fact anyone who is not in the highest ten percent of American plutocrats would vote for a political party that would seem to cater only to the moneyed elite.<\/p>\n

Michael Lewis\u2019s book describes players in the credit default swap market who bet against the collateralized debt obligation bubble, thereby profiting while poor people and immigrants, against whom they were, in effect, betting against, got rich.\u00a0 A few hedge fund managers, thinking outside the box, made tens of millions despite\u2014in fact because\u2014the stock market crashed.\u00a0 Notable among the few winners is Dr. Michael Burry, a former neurologist referred to in the movie always as Dr. Burry, a man with Asperger\u2019s Syndrome who dresses regularly in shorts and a T-shirt and whose blindness in one eye is inversely proportional to the sharp, money-making vision he has against the vast majority of people.<\/p>\n

McKay, whose previous films included \u201cAnchorman\u201d and \u201cTalladega Nights,\u201d leaves those subjects well behind in putting together a picture with true, ensemble performances.\u00a0 Among the leads are Christian Bale in the role of Michael Burry, Ryan Gosling as Jared Vennett, Steve Carell as a fictitious Mark Baum and Brad Pitt as Ben Rickert.\u00a0 The opening finds us both admiring and finding weird the person of Dr. Burry, whose laid-back approach is actually a reflection of his Asperger\u2019s.\u00a0 Like many an Asperger\u2019s savant, he goes against the popular notion that real estate is a solid investment and that AAA-rated bonds are sure winners.\u00a0 When word of his investments reaches a banker, Jared Vennett who goes into the credit-default-swap business with Mark Baum, the grapevine information spreads to Charles Geller (John Magaro) and Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) whose garage-based investments turn $110,000 into a nine-digit sum.\u00a0 They use a former banker, Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt, who has a small role and is a producer), to help them get meetings with top financial people.<\/p>\n

What follows is a sometimes surreal, crisply edited and shakily filmed series of quick scenes and even quicker montages that include the presence of the financial people at strip clubs, with one of the performers delivering a commentary to Mark Baum on the five houses she has invested in.\u00a0 In the single most outrageous example of corruption, Georgia Hale, an analyst with Standard & Poor\u2019s (Melissa Leo), admits that her agency gave AAA ratings to some crappy bonds in order to keep the company\u2019s banker clients from heading across the street to Moody\u2019s Investment Service.\u00a0 The bonds eventually tank, giving obscene profits to the folks who shorted them, i.e. betted against them.<\/p>\n

There is even a quick cameo for Anthony Bourdain, one of our country\u2019s best-known chefs, who uses fish as a metaphor, holding that you can always get rid of junk fish gone stale by putting it into a stew.\u00a0 But there is nothing junky about this movie, which would likely appeal to people of above intelligence whether they are investors, bankers, lawyers, realtors or used car salesmen.\u00a0 This is adult fare, not dumbed down (though not as hard-hitting or appealing to sentiment as \u201c99 Homes\u201d), a far more dramatic enterprise than any documentary (with the exception of Michael Moore\u2019s) could bring to the fascinating subject.<\/p>\n

Rated R.\u00a0 130 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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