Autonomy within the company allows Burry to do largely as he pleases, so Burry proceeds to bet against the housing market with the banks, who are more than happy to accept his proposal for something that has never happened in American history.

He believes that the US housing market is built on a bubble that will burst within the next few years. Michael Burry, an eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager, has traded traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut. Well that's what the banks want youВ to feel.Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told. At one point Gosling turns to the camera saying: вЂњ You feel stupid right now. By breaking that fourth wall it not only keeps us engaged but you learn something without particularly realising. ItвЂ™s trying to explain something that we would otherwise just shrug our shoulders at because really we canвЂ™t be bothered. Our society tends to take the stance that ignorance is bliss and what I like so much about this film is that it is trying to make us less ignorant. Or maybe they chose not to include her because they didnвЂ™t want to add too many characters into the mix and over complicate the story line which they are trying so desperately hard not to avoid. She might have not been featured as it seems that they wanted to keep Wall Street as something of a strictly boys only affair, only other women that make an appearance seem to be wives and strippers. The film does fail to mention Meredith Whitney, a financial analyst who also predicting the downfall of big time bank Citigroup. Watching it almost leaves you in state of disbelief that it actually happened. This is another reason the film is so successful, the end pays tribute to the families that lost their homes and the hundreds more that lost their jobs. When faced with some financial term you donвЂ™t understand the film cuts away to Margot Robbie in a bath to explain what a triple B mortgage is, or Selena Gomez at a poker table showing you how a CDO works.Дirector Adam McKay has managed to keep it light-hearted and comic, he keeps you interested without making light of the situation and its aftermath. Only once you actually start watching it do you realise what makes it so unique, it breaks down the fourth wall in such an interesting way that it gives you a chance to actually understand the stock market. It's really easy to be put off by films like this, when my friend first suggested watching it and described it as a film about the stock market my initial reaction was to switch off. I had a lot of love for him after Foxcatcher but this is certainly favourite of his performances. ItвЂ™s easy to think of him in roles like Anchor man and The 40 Year Old Virgin but if anything they are a testament to his skill of being able to play the joker or something more serious. ThereвЂ™s a strange kind of anger he carries, as if he is holding a grudge before anythingвЂ™s actually happened. Steve Carell is an absolute stand-out in this film and was by far my favourite. The last group the film follows are played by Finn Wittrock and John Margo who with the financial advice from Brad Pitt, a retired stock trader, manage to cash in.

Carell is an American money manager who receives the tip off about the dodgy mortgage loans from Gosling, a stock market trader. Ryan Gosling plays the part of Greg Lippmann with Steve Carell portraying Steve Eisman, although their names have been changed in the film. It's really very easy to dislike Bale but he plays BurryВ well and apparently his portrayal is actually pretty accurate, he was well known for walking around his office in flip-flops listening to Metallica. Christian Bale plays the part of Michael Burry, a hedge fund manager and one of the first to realise that subprime mortgages were in impending doom.

The film has an all-star cast including Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt to name just a few. It primarily follows three groups of people that predicted the crash and how they managed to benefit from betting against what was believed to be stable mortgage stocks. The Big Short, based on the book by Michael Lewis, takes a mockumentary style approach in its aim to explain the stock market crash in America in 2008 and how it subsequently resulted in the housing crisis.

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