The film was directed by Adam McKay of Anchorman and Step Brothers fame: a man with a proven track record for wrangling testosterone-addled absurdity. That kind of negative investment is called shorting, and the film’s wryly paradoxical title – carried over from Michael Lewis’s page-turning exposé, on which it’s based – flags up the scam’s self-defeating nature. This blackly uproarious satire on the 2008 financial crisis brings us shoulder to shoulder with the scumbags: the small band of Wall Street “outsiders and weirdos” (the film’s own words) who spotted the worsening fault lines in the bedrock of the US economy three years early, and reacted by betting against it and crossing their fingers for disaster. But you can count the decent humans in The Big Short on a single outstretched finger. When you sense catastrophe closing in, raising the alarm is the only decent human thing to do.
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