Margin Call?

[The Intransigent Faction]

Anyone heard of it/seen it? A friend recommended it to me. Apparently it's a thriller about the financial crisis...judging from the trailer I think it's hard to say exactly how critical it is of the banks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2DqFRsPrns

[the Left™]

Its capitalist cinema, how critical can it be?

[Devrim]

I watched it on DVD about a month ago. It was reasonably good. I'd say it is worth watching.

Devrim

[x359594]

I wouldn't describe it as a thriller. Margin Call is about the first 24 hours of the 2008 capitalist crisis set in a financial brokerage firm that's insturmental in spreading the melt down.

[The Intransigent Faction]

So I finally saw it today. Maybe I missed something, but it seemed like it was trying to evoke sympathy for those bastards who sold off toxic assets...at one point one of the characters even claims regular people are "hypocrites" who somehow enjoy the benefits of their risks and then blame Wall Street---"They lived beyond their means" and all that bs. Never mind what happens to regular people. The way some dialogue went, I felt like some scenes could have been written by Ayn Rand.

And yeah despite critics calling it such, it wasn't much of a "thriller" either.

[Elsa]

I think it's a good film. of course we can't expect too much from its ideology, but it showed many absurds and horrid aspects of capitalism very well