Margin Call - film about the financial crisis of 2007– 2008

[Kid_Eternity]

This looks interesting, low budget but has some big names in it (who took pay cuts to be in it):

Junior risk analysts Seth Bregman (Penn Badgley), Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) and senior fixed income salesman Will Emerson (Paul Bettany) watch as a human resources team conducts mass layoffs on their trading floor. One of the fired employees is their boss, Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci), who works in risk management. Before leaving, Dale gives Peter a USB drive with a project he had been working on, telling him to "be careful." That night, Peter finishes the project, and discovers that trading will soon exceed the historical volatility levels used by the firm to calculate risk. Because of excessive leverage, if the firm's assets in mortgage backed securities decrease by 25%, the firm will suffer a loss greater than its market capitalization. Sullivan alerts Emerson, who calls head of sales Sam Rogers (Kevin Spacey).

Quote above from wikipedia page.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

So...I take it no one saw this?

 

[Gromit]

I saw it on Sky.

Really enjoyed it actually.

Curious to know how real it was to true events.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Just watched it again, a very solid film. Some good lines in there which shows the mentality of those type of people...

 

[Gromit]

I did like...

Be the smartest or cheat or be first.

I ain't the smartest, I don't cheat so that leaves be first.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Yeah I liked that one and the one he gave about money not meaning anything, just paper with images on it.

 

[Flavour]

i think this film has stood the test of time, watched it against last night, still bangs.

there's a great speech that Paul bettany's character gives as he's driving a car about normal people hating the finance sector but enjoying the society which financial capital has created for them, that financial capital keeps its hands on the scales to tip them in the favor of "normal people" (in the West) and that if they take their hands off the scale the world will "get really fucking fair really fucking quickly"