Review of Margin Call (2011) by B H — 05 Jan 2014

I honestly didn't expect much of this movie but it ended up being more interesting and unpredictable than I bargained for and made me think deeply about things, I am sure some people will just not get it and will probably hate it! The movie is about the ongoing greed cheating and manipulating in the corporate world, in the name of the ever so important money, even if not real, that is more and more our controlling God. The moral of the story is that if we can manipulate lie and cheat, and is good at covering it, all will be fine in the end, life must go on in one way or the other. The securities firm was about to go in complete dissaray as the computers were projecting a massive loss of money. Ironically this issue was discovered by an employee right before his firing due to company downsizing, he somehow let one other junior staff know about it on his way out, this in turn then continued the work that will eventually earn him an asencion in the company.The board and the staff were for that reason scrambling around the clock to find solutions to a major crisis for the firm. At the height of the crisis when all options were explored, in comes CEO John Tuld (Jeremy Irons), as if God, to give the blessings to a contingency plan that includes the removal of toxic assets, in such a way as to cover up the companies shortcomings and vulnerability.

The initially fired employee, somehow was convinced, and in some way treatened, to return to the company and help out in the crisis. At the end it was clear that the top bosses knew beforehand about the ensuing issue and yet still, eventually, a scapegoat was found, in the end the firm could then resume the downsizing program that started in the beginning of the movie.