Datapoint: I didn’t enjoy margin call, because it didn’t try to explain the crisis, and the character of the CEO was deliberately dumbed down in a way that I don’t think real finance CEOs are.
There’s also a scene where one of the older traders makes a fermi estimate but doesn’t round any numbers to their order of magnitude. That gave me the sense that they’re earnestly trying to play autistic nerds but don’t quite know autistic nerd culture well enough.
Datapoint: I didn’t enjoy margin call, because it didn’t try to explain the crisis, and the character of the CEO was deliberately dumbed down in a way that I don’t think real finance CEOs are.
There’s also a scene where one of the older traders makes a fermi estimate but doesn’t round any numbers to their order of magnitude. That gave me the sense that they’re earnestly trying to play autistic nerds but don’t quite know autistic nerd culture well enough.