The Big Short is about people who got rich by short-selling credit default swaps--people who made obscene amounts of money by being able to accurately predict the suffering of others. That they themselves were not the root cause of the suffering makes it possible for us as viewers to not hate them; it doesn't necessarily keep them--or Baum at least--from hating themselves.
"No one has claim. All have claim."
GLBTQ Movies Have Become More Prevalent at Festivals -- Will Mainstream Audiences Ever Embrace Them?
A great introduction to the life of Janis Joplin, but some will wish it probed deeper.
Like our own world, only better.
Nothing makes me feel better than the truth, and in their own ways, all five films that I chose are refreshingly honest.
Maybe our neighbors are more like us than we know.
I initially planned to balance my selection among different types of films, but then I realized the films that really help me feel better in dark times are offbeat comedies and tragic cautionary tales.
Here are five films that make me feel better when I'm feeling bad about...everything else.
Director Tom McCarthy delivers a somber, sobering film which denies any character (or the viewer) the feeling of moral superiority.
