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The rest of the film is a pressure-cooker chain reaction: a sleepless middle-manager (Paul Bettany), the panicked head of trading (Kevin Spacey), the icy CEO (Jeremy Irons), and the risk architect (Tucci, again) trying to sell this worthless garbage to the market before dawn.

We’ve all seen The Wolf of Wall Street : the hookers, the Quaaludes, the yacht-sinking chaos. It’s a rock concert of greed. And we’ve seen The Big Short : the fourth-wall-breaking, celebrity-cameo-filled, ADHD explainer of synthetic CDOs. Margin Call

But there is another film. A quieter, colder, and far more terrifying film. It’s Margin Call (2011), written and directed by J.C. Chandor. And while the others are about the party and the hangover , Margin Call is about the exact moment the poison enters the bloodstream. The rest of the film is a pressure-cooker

It’s a deliberate choice to show how homogenous and insulated that world was. Curious if that aged poorly or perfectly. And we’ve seen The Big Short : the