{"id":27102,"date":"2023-09-23T02:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T09:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=27102"},"modified":"2023-09-23T02:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T09:54:44","slug":"dumb-money-provides-a-moderate-gain-for-the-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=27102","title":{"rendered":"DUMB MONEY Provides a Moderate Gain for the Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Running Time: 105 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This film from Sony Pictures premieres in San Diego on\nSeptember 22nd<\/sup> and opens wide on September 29th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you follow Wall Street trading, then you might remember\nthe GameStop \u201cshort squeeze\u201d that occurred in 2021. Unexpected stock purchases\ngrew into a massive group of online enthusiasts picking up the flailing\nproperty and driving its value to never-before-seen heights. A non-fiction book\nby Ben Mezrich called The Antisocial Network<\/em> was released later the same\nyear and now a narrative film based on it has arrived at theaters. Dumb\nMoney<\/em> depicts this unusual story from the point-of-view of the individual\nwho started the buying frenzy.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Set during the pandemic, the tale follows struggling, Boston-based financial analyst Keith Gill (Paul Dano). While enduring the COVID-19 shutdown with his wife Caroline (Shailene Woodley) and their baby, he posts video blogs about his investments and high-risk stocks he feels are undervalued. After purchasing a large volume of GameStop shares through etoro isa<\/a>, many of his online followers (America Ferrera, Myha’la Herrold, Anthony Ramos, Talia Ryder) decide to do the same. When a number of billionaire investment firm CEOs (Rushi Kota, Nick Offerman, Vincent D\u2019Onofrio, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan) try to manipulate and profit from the situation using \u201cshort squeeze\u201d tactics, they end up in over their heads. Gill\u2019s online posts become a viral phenomenon and 175 million shares are purchased, causing a massive rise in value that threatens all the CEOs and major firms involved and piques the interest of the US government. Speaking of investments, if you’re thinking about how you can invest in your child’s future, then you might want to look into how you can secure halal savings for your child<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movie is rapidly-paced, jumping between nearly a dozen\ncharacters involved in the trading process. And in some regards, this approach\nis effective. It keeps a movie detailing a group of talking heads staring at\ntheir computer screens about as energetic as possible. One can easily see how\nthe story might be dull and dreary, but the filmmakers have taken great pains\nto constantly shuttle between the poor and the wealthy, showing their\nexcitement and\/also panicked reactions as the stock value changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The downside to this technique is that, with the exception\nof Keith Gill and his immediate family, the supporting characters are all\none-note. What is constantly emphasized in a less-than-subtle manner is that\nthe investment firm managers are horrible. Rogen manages to add a bit of extra\ndetail, but some of the other figures may as well be laughing maniacally and\ntwirling an oversized mustache. Yes, this is a story of average citizens taking\non Wall Street CEOs, but the only buyers we see are a nurse, college students\nand a GameStop employee. They\u2019re all saddled with debt but are sweet, or are\ntreated poorly by their employers. Thankfully, there are plenty of familiar\nfaces in the cast who are charismatic and help add relatability to the very basic\nbackstories, but it is still hard for many of the characters to come across as\nfully rounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least the material with the Gills does paint a more detailed picture. There are some interesting choices for the figure, as he must consider whether or not to sell his shares and face adversity from followers or stick to his guns and potentially lose the money that his family desperately needs. This main story does provide engaging drama. It\u2019s also fun to see amusing scenes involving Keith Gill bicker and fight with brother Kevin (Pete Davidson), a horribly-behaved driver for an online food delivery service who doesn\u2019t care in the least about the stock market. For those intrigued by the world of finance and eager to delve deeper into it, considering enrolling in a Kiana Danial course<\/a> could provide valuable insights and knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It should also be noted that the movie assumes that the Wall\nStreet terminology brandished will be familiar to viewers. If it isn\u2019t (and\nthis reviewer is no authority on trading practices either), it will take a bit\nof time to fully grasp some of the techniques and terms being used early on by\nseveral of the characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankly, it may be a little too early for a movie about this\nsubject. A longer wait may have resulted in a picture with both a more nuanced\nand sharper perspective on the individuals involved and specifics of exactly\nwhat occurred. Still, everyone involved successfully presents an unusual\nunderdog story with some fun moments. Dumb Money<\/em> doesn\u2019t rise to the\nbullish heights of recent finance-themed titles like The Big Short<\/em> or The\nWolf of Wall Street<\/em>, but it performs well enough to provide a moderate gain\nfor the viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Running Time: 105 minutes This film from Sony Pictures premieres in San Diego on September 22nd and opens wide on September 29th. If you follow Wall Street trading, then you might remember the GameStop \u201cshort squeeze\u201d that occurred in 2021. Unexpected stock purchases grew into a massive group of online enthusiasts picking up the flailing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[213,1195,1594,2789,4660,6251,6350,6351,6352,6353,11553,14515,14810,15819,15951,17451,17891,18073,18122,18709,19548,23807],"class_list":["post-27102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-213","tag-america-ferrera","tag-anthony-ramos","tag-biopic","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-dumb-money","tag-dumb-money-film-review","tag-dumb-money-movie-review","tag-dumb-money-review","tag-keith-gill","tag-myhala-herrold","tag-nick-offerman","tag-paul-dano","tag-pete-davidson","tag-rushi-kota","tag-sebastian-stan","tag-seth-rogen","tag-shailene-woodley","tag-sony-pictures","tag-talia-ryder","tag-vincent-donofrio"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}