Boiler Room

i am a SUCKER for these movies i’ll tell ya. i thought this movie would be more adjacent to Margin Call (which i did not enjoy) and so my expectations were to the floor. i was happily surprised! the plot is surprisingly intriguing and the characters have depth and well written dialogue (if you like dialogue from movies like The Departed ;) ). it’s very interesting to me to see the way movies about stock market and other financial things direct the movie. The Big Short took an informational and personal route, but movies like this one and margin call led as more of a story- which can make it harder to follow if you don’t understand all the lingo so i had to rewind a few time to make sure i got the point. also i love how the director also wrote the movie, you can really tell throughout the film that this was a labor of love and the director just wanted his story to be told in an impactful way ben affleck should’ve had a more involved role :(