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Margin call is a pretty cool movie

2023-11-08

I’m really loving Margin Call on a rewatch. It’s just such a perfect mix of tensity and intrigue. I don’t know if its the acting/setting/content but I my attention is fully engaged at each moment of the story. Part of the tonality is nice in that it doesn’t portray every banker as a ruthless sociopath. There’s certainly some dissonance with non-uber-wealthy people, but the ruthlessness is a business kind, not the newer classwar ruthlessness of Succession or the unhinged apathy of Industry.