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The Program and The Big Short

posted 9 years ago by paolo-severini-1
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Watched both movies in the same week, by chance, and I was struck by some unlikely analogy: in both cases events happen in the early 2000s, in both cases big players cheat and in both cases people don't want to know and the press is happy not to investigate the truth because the truth is too ugly.

- People were happy to believe the fairytale of the value of houses that continually grows, so funding on this lie the whole economy and the country's wealth.
- People were happy to believe the fairytale of a cyclist who defeats cancer and becomes the best rider ever.
And in the end everything came down.

And interestingly, the early 2000s were the times of Internet, "Information at Your Fingertips", and apparently nobody really knew anything.

[–] SutterKeely87 9 years ago

I also noticed that in THE BIG SHORT, they show a tv clip of Armstrong in his Faud of a prime....loved that they showed a clip of that. It went well with The Big Short

[–] at7000 9 years ago

The first time I heard the name Lance Armstrong, in the late 1990s, I read a bit about him and his story and I smelled BS.

JFK screwed Marilyn and was addicted to pain medication for his back. Gandhi slept naked with his Grand-Daughters, and so on...

There are no heroes!