Dumb Money 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

The project will tell about the scandalous chain of video game stores GameStop. In January 2021, the company's shares rose 1800 times due to the manipulations of Internet trolls from the Reddit website. This caused a real chaos on Wall Street and among professional investors: overnight the value of the company's price increased by 10 billion dollars, because of which hedge funds suffered huge losses.

Dumb Money 4K Review
Films about financial crises, pyramids and other cataclysms often face an impossible task: to stay in focus and explain what's going on to an uninformed audience in an accessible way. Fortunately, Craig Gillespie's ("Cruella," "Tonya vs. Everyone") new project more than confidently - and in just 100 minutes - reveals one of the most amazing stories of recent times, reminding us of the importance of resisting circumstances and the power of Reddit users. The only thing missing is Margot Robbie explaining the peculiarities of the stock market in a bubble bath with champagne in hand.

Keith Gill loves the "marketplace." In the fall of 2020, he's a simple millennial living in Boston with his wife (Shailene Woodley) and child, runs an unpopular YouTube blog, prefers cheap beer, and mourns his sister who died in the pandemic. Gill has parents and a dorky brother (Pete Davidson, of course) working as a courier - they have to be supported somehow, too. Everything changes when Gill decides to bet on GameStop, a faltering gaming merchandise company. Six months later, with the help of a horde of fans on reddit, Gill's wish marathon becomes a sensation: GameStop's stock gains momentum, Wall Street panics, hedge funds and other institutions collapse, billions are lost.

The picture was prepared in parallel with the hearings in the U.S. Congress: then the authorities suspected both sides of foul play and manipulation of investors. The project was based on non-fiction "Anti-Social Network" Ben Mezricha, author meticulous and has gained a hand on similar exposé material (previously he wrote about Mark Zuckerberg in "Billionaires at will": the text served as a framework for "The Social Network" by David Fincher). The term "dumb money" in the language of financiers refers to individual investors who are supposedly hopeless in the world of big capital, and therefore cannot succeed. Gillespie and his impressive cast prove that there is always a chance, all it takes is public awareness, word of mouth and a modest investment. After wading through dozens of unfamiliar concepts (see shorts, squeezes, etc.), "Money" acquires integrity and cohesion, pleasantly surprising humor, worthy of attention at least a diverse cast of participants - real people who temporarily made a revolution and almost overthrew the rich.

In addition to main liaison Dano, the acting ensemble rattles off big and not-so-big names. From the Wall Street camp are Sebastian Stan as the murky Bulgarian entrepreneur Vlad Tenev, as well as Seth Rogen, Vincent D'Onofrio and Nick Offerman as mad (and extremely boring) leaders of fate who play tennis and keep pigs as pets in their luxurious mansions. Among the common folk descending on the screen are Anthony Ramos (a GameStop employee with a passion for rapper Megan Thee Stallion), America Ferrera (a nurse with a mortgage and kids who need braces), Micha'la Herrold and Talia Ryder (student streamers in search of easy money). "Bad Money," like "The Downgrade Game," knows what to draw viewers in, and puts on the actors as the main narrators.

The screenplay by Lauren Shuker Bloom and Rebecca Angelo ("Orange is the Hit of the Season") doesn't shine with novelty, sometimes overly clumsy and luboko draws rich people and the confrontation between the two worlds in general, but always remains human, daring and skillfully organized. As a result, it's an uplifting movie about accidents that aren't accidents at all, and civil interaction, which can be a great source of money.