The Big Short is about the housing crisis that hit America in
2008. People are somewhat divided on it, between horrible, awesome, and sort of
a hybrid between horrible and awesome mixed together to form a uniquely mutant
creature.
They have to get celebrities to explain everything because
it's so complicated that they really can't do it in the plot. I feel like I'm
in school looking at PowerPoints, and overhead projectors. The celebrities are
a who's who, though. They keep it coasting until the big payoff.
And then it gets really meta. There's this great big pull back
where we really see the damage. We see that paradigms have shifted. Now, collapse is in our vocabulary in a major way! And, as an added bonus, we see the personal growth!
Except, why did we see the growth in 2 hours? Why couldn't we
just have seen the growth in a shot?
I'm a busy man. I have stuff to do. I want to see growth in
short little snippets! Then I want my Google alerts to talk endlessly about
the growth of these fictional characters over and over again! I'm so busy that
I need to be reassured that the show I'm watching is amazing!
I leave you with the first time Jaime Lannister saw the
dragons as an example of how masterful Game of Thrones is at growth.
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