THE BIG SHORT....a big hit!

When was the last time you heard or learned abut finance? Do you really know and fully understand what's going on with the big markets over Wall street and how they operate and control your nation's money? Well if you have no clue but you saw two years ago a movie called "The Wolf of wall Street" (2013) with Leonardo DiCaprio, you might have an idea of the concept of Wall Street, what is the role it plays economically and how all these people get involve with the money, buying and selling, investing in what brings millions to the table. But now we are about to see the movie that the previos mentioned intended to be. This is "The Big Short" (2015), a true story based on a novel from the same name that intends to tell the truth behind the last economic meltdown of Wall Street history and the last one that made the world collapse leading millions to lose their jobs and homes. And thats the best example of how the first world rules worldwide. How capitalism takes advantage of any opportunity to sell even lies and illegal transactions and how USA can make the markets go up as much as can make them go down.

So, not trying to get in details of the movie and ruin the surprise and also avoiding to bore anyone with financial terms hard to explain, this movie stand on it's own being the most interesting and funny finance class you will attend in years. Being original and creative, the story serves as a parody that makes us root for its characters while they try to achieve their goal, which is basically steal our money, which is when the reality hits and everything turns as sad and sarcastically pathetic as the system is. Delivering great performances from an A list cast that includes Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling,
Steve Carell and Christian Bale, the smart direction and script make them dance between comedy and drama, showing us how humans can we be when comes about money and how greedy can ur morals can turn, without being villains or heroes, just being smart and finding opportunities in a sea full of them. and it could be the more realistic heist movie you've seen in years but they are not planning to robe anyone, this guys just realize of a bubble in the system that can be used and turnes as an opportunity for a few and a disaster for the rest.

We are the ones to blame. For being so naive to put our future and money in hands of a system that promises to deliver more back, interest and ideals of dreams where everything can happen and we can jump from a hard working life to the American dream just by playing with the odds and take a risk. Is that how lazy we are or that's just pat of our fight to achieve and earn our place in a world that values who you are for how much you own? how much are you willing to sacrifice to make your money worth? Hanging around people that disgust you or annoys you but might be the right connections to get you to a better place matches with your own ideologies and what you stand for? How much do you know about the government rules and it;s rule for your money and future? Because we like to blame others for our own ignorance and it's not until things happen that we open our eyes or a movie like this comes to show us and explain us what really happened for something that only a few saw coming and no one ad the courage to stand for.

In 2008, an economic crisis happened in the United States, pointing fingers to the banks that as major institutions in the country managed to clean their guilt and made it through the chaos, but no one paid consequences but as the movie well says, just the ordinary people ends paying for the mistakes of those on top. If facts like this can happen in major economies like the big countries ruling the world what can the others called a third world can expect? when their economy hangs on currencies far from their own, becomes like a world wide to manage stability from falling down and crash. but how things end on the wrong hands if even the own government has no control on those markets and assume that all controls are set to avoid a mistake but theres no perfection and that cost will be paid for the rest of the country but not for the ones who created it in the first place. So that makes you inmoral or lack of honor if trying to look up for yourself in a market that becomes a battle field but where if place the right cards, can leave you with a financial security of a life time? What becomes more important, the role each of us play or the power that we give to others to play for us?

Each of one of the characters in the movie play an essential role in all this events. Each of them isolated from the other but acting like a chain reaction, getting this machine to work even realizing of the damage that will bring if succeed, but as said the fault won't be theirs, as they are just acting under the rules, taking advantage of a possibility, one created under the major nationwide mortgage industry and its own deficit as based for this country economy. All of them are doing their part and if succeed will deal with their own guilt but aso will get their own reward. And part of dealing with that guilt is that they came straight forward with the truth to the media and the government that ignored them and avoid getting into the sensitive matter, again letting them get away with their own. In fact sounds funny and ridiculous as any good comedy but also feels so real that makes it the worst drama or suspense in life and that's why this movie is now a golden globe and critics choice awards nominee, because it's able to educate, slap in our face while make us cry and laugh about the truth of real events that either you will enjoy it, will learn more about your finances, and will have a history lesson and explanation of facts, you will be entertained by the sad major event of the biggest most recent economic crisis if the century that affected million of people around the world and that at this day, has no faces that paid for it and no major rules have been applied to avoid and control banks and other institutions from steal our money. How's that for the next horror movie?