The Big Short: Ending scene 'Sell it ALL'

One of favorite movies about the financial crisis 2008

[cscheatum]

It's estimated the 2008 Financial Crash led to over 10, 000 suicides. Terrible.

[danieldevito]

Steve Carell was absolutely brilliant in this movie.

[qhwhvpe]

they knew. they knew taxpayers would bail them out. they weren't being stupid. they just didn't care.

[enzodagostini]

I see they are making a sequel to this movie in 2020, and we are all in it.

[Seanpfree]

In 2008 my best friend, his sister, and I visited their family on break from college. Went into his house and through the kitchen window saw his step-dad HANGING in the shed. Robert ran outside and lifted him, undid the cord, and saved his life. It's all a game to those at the top, real life to us.
His step dad suffered permanent damage, but is still part of the family to this day.

[FP]

“At least we get to see them go to jail.”

Lmao

[nicholasbet]

this scene is so poignant and so well played. The manipulation just continued and continued and continued till today. Bailout after bailout. No jail time and the psychopaths get richer.

[elidetbordon]

"When the dust settled from the collapse,
5 trillion dollars in pension money, real estate value, 401K, savings and bonds had disappeared.
8 million people lost their jobs, 6 million lost their homes.
And that was just in the USA."

So we aren't even close to payback on these people. Not even close.

[rto]

"You know, this place makes me wonder: Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man" Shutter Island

[Proclifo]

Steve Carell is a great actor. This movie showed me he's more than just a comedic relief.

[TafTabTah]

How we still allow these companies to operate blows my mind

[Kraken]

I'm really lucky I was still young and had five years left on my military enlistment in 2008. The whole country was in total doom and gloom mode and I was completely insulated. I remember our officers telling us how lucky we were to not be out there battling on the streets for money and housing.

[davidborger]

Jared had said "you still have some faith in the system dont you?" and Vinnie said "I don't". Here we see he did, believing some people would go to jail, but to no avail

[brose]

September of 08 I had the advantage of being dead ass broke, with no debt. When I heard about a potential bank shut down I realized I only had 32 dollars in the bank, good times.

[LearnToFly]

Pure perfection from Steve Carrell. One of the most poignant scenes ever made.

[natrone]

"I have a feeling that in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks - they will be blaming immigrants and poor people."

I lived through this period without understanding what it was. It seemed like just news on TV. Never imagined the big scale of damage it was until I learned a thing or two about finance and the economy.

[nickgenre]

this movie proved that Steve Carell is a legend...fantastic dynamic in acting

[conors]

That line about we will do what we always do when the economy is bad, blame immigrants and poor people. Bang on the money. The people at the feast throw some scraps, and instead of banding together people just fight over the scraps and hate the other person in the same position as them rather than turning it on to people who actually cause the problem. We learned nothing from 1929, and we realised it by 1945, same now.

[tensphreak]

I was one of the 8M who lost a job and of the 6M who lost a home..way more impactful to me, than Pandemic '20..