If you enjoy The Big Short (2015), you may enjoy Margin Call (2011) too. It covers similar territory (what to do in a market crash), but I feel is more professional and dispassionate.
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.
If you enjoy The Big Short (2015), you may enjoy Margin Call (2011) too. It covers similar territory (what to do in a market crash), but I feel is more professional and dispassionate.
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.
Absolutely, for years YouTube has offered me back to back clips of both, so I’ve watched parts of it many times (and the whole thing through once).