Manager: Craig Gillespie
Artists: Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Amerika Ferrara, Pete Davidson
Year: 2023
Premiere: October 6, 2023
★★★
In January 2021, a group of small investors organized around Reddit threw Wall Street into chaos after skyrocketing the stock prices of a video game store called GameStop.It caused sharks trying to sink the stock market to lose billions of dollars. By recreating this event, the director Craig Gillespie In addition to being more successful than ‘The Big Short’ (2015) in making complex financial concepts understandable; It also makes a movie that focuses on characters staring at screens or the content of those screens (graphics, memes, GIFs) downright entertaining.
Moreover, ‘Wall Street Blow’ is quite Manichean in recreating the battle between David and Goliath – small investors are all noble, big investors are caricatured villains – and his endless monologues about how unfair and corrupt the system is fall into didacticism. It could be argued that it lacks the kind of sarcasm that Gillespie injected into his black comedy ‘I, Tonya’ (2017), which was also based on true events. Rather than admitting that the GameStop case was neither a revolution nor changed the stock market hierarchy, it merely forced the rich to look for other ways to become increasingly wealthy. He prefers to console himself by focusing on the benefits some small investors end up reaping and presenting them as evidence of People Power.