Margin Call [DVD]

The Fractional-Banking/Fiat-Money system intentionally produces discord and distress.F-banking/F-money does not produce Cooperation.This movie tells you about something hidden. The character played by Jeremy Irons understood that he was servicing hidden players at the apex of the banking industry (Bank Of International Settlements – BIS, etc) who intentionally wanted to produce the [the crisis of asset-backed securities subprime mortgage lending] bubble and the ensuing crash.When emotional distress is produced, the appetite for debt of peoples of whole nations increases significant. As the character Irons plays says at the end, “there will be a whole lot of money to be made after this.” (think of the money printing of Economic Easing that the Federal Reserve did and how much money got made in fees by Wall Street as a result, etc.)Producing emotional discord and distress promotes the survival of the F-banking/F-money system… until it doesn’t anymore, because it becomes unsustainable (insolvent), as they all have, repeatedly throughout history, over a general period of some 250 years as their longevity cycle. All the world’s money systems tended to start as asset-backed or value-baked currencies, and then became debased. Usually the metal (gold or silver) used to mint the coinage became diluted (debased) with other alloy components that were cheap to mine. Originally the US Dollar was gold backed. Long ago that stopped being true (when the Federal Reserve system of fractional banking and fiat money took over).During the War of Independence (our Revolutionary War), England had observes present, as did Germany. They didn’t much care who won. The bankers’s lawers of the City Of London didn’t care who won.(Crown Temple https://www.google.com/search?q=Crown+Temple )The employers of the observers were interested in how best proceed to get leverage on the debt accrued by the war. It is the Admiralty Law (by which banking functions) that controls how ownership of debt is parsed out. The details of Admiralty Law parses out the ownership of each nation’s slaves (citizens) who are the debtors of last resort; since they are the ones who pay back the losses that are accrued by their ‘governments and nations’. This really means that debt (debt-money of the F-banking/F-money system) is the means by which the citizens of nations are turned into SLAVES. These slaves don’t even know that they are the milk-cows for those who are seeking power to assuage their fear of inadequacy and death… seeking power to survive. These people are those whose illusion driven contracts require them to do the job assignment of making slaves of those around the world who are open to being slaves. Dictatorships and Democracies all find a way to make slaves of those who are open to the idea of being sold their position of being slaves.The Civil War was orchestrated early on by the City of London. They did this by getting the territories to want to be either Slave States or Free States. It was orchestrated by those same London City bankster/lawyers from the Crown Temple on behalf of the hidden money owners often referred to as the 13 Families or the Rothschild-cabal, etc. Insightful research details how the First World War was an orchestrated by money manipulation from a hidden perch to better control resources. The Second World War was again a power game, but the hidden part was that Japan was to steal the gold bullion of Indonesia and China. Japan was to do this for the emerging hidden power represented through the Federal Reserve of America. Today’s support of the military-industrial-complex that President Eisenhower warned about can be seen with never ending war. Hidden promotion of the Islamic dynamic of today serves this profiteering process. (the tools of the hidden power driving this survival trip could, among others, be identified as the CIA, Zionist-Israel, City Of London, and others) Likewise, driving countries to debt allows the Internationally Monetary Fund (IMF) the chance to then ride to the ‘rescue’ and provide insolvency relief by selling off a nation’s assets to private investors (the hidden players), and the plunder and slavery cycle is concluded; until the next scene can arrive to the play. Regime change and other sundry hostilities all work for the hidden power players, too, as your imagination my conclude.The Board Of Directors (the share holders of the company headed by the character of Jeremy Irons)0 were all wealthy puppets of the hidden power structure behind the whole thing. The system sees and knows what Must happen. It waits until the seeds it plants become ripe to harvest. The character of Iron’s knew this, as did the well paid wealthy peons who were the company shareholders. All are slaves to their fear of survival.INTERESTINGLY, the IMF did a global inventory of assets for all the globes nations. It was looking to discover what wealth assets could be fairly assigned to each of the world’s nations (available for pillaging when ripe). It turns out that (per population size) all nations have an equitable share of assets, as compared to all other nations. This means that each nation has an equitable amount of wealth, native to its territory. Each nation’s wealth status is equitable (per population size) to all other nations. It is not one-to-one equality, but it is close enough to be an equitable dynamic wherein something wonderful is possible. [the IMF doesn’t tell anyone about this because it is in the business of plunder and stealing]A global currency system that is based on the assets or the value of each nation winds up diving forward Cooperation between nations and peoples instead of fomenting Distress and war.Having an Asset-Backed or Value-Backed money system for the globe makes war unprofitable.Nations that have currencies that CANNOT be used as fiat-money can’t easily fund war and conquest. Besides that is a pain in the butt as compared to the easy wealth growing that can be got through Cooperation.The good husbandry of cooperation turns out to be the easiest way for all nations to increase their own wealth. People of each nation find it is easiest to increase their own wealth by using their nation’s assets or value in the best ways possible. Smart and savvy decision making happens, both at the micro level doing business for citizens, and at the macro level of national political decision making. Causing for war and other emotional distress dynamics becomes a stupid thing to do.This film tells the story of the hidden authors of global distress and planned orchestration leading to the plunder of people’s sovereignty and nations’ assets as well. And all of this simply because the illusion is afraid for its survival.If you really want to go down the illusion rabbit hole see: “Laughing At Betrayal” http://bit.ly/Laughing_At_Betrayal

This is a pretty good movie with A-list actors like Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, etc., but the plot could've used a little more development and it needed a bit more drama. I like that there was no killing, but for goodness sake, the fall of a large billion company like the one featured is not something to take lightly and they are always backstabbers and someone who wants to take someone else down. Another misstep is when, at 11:00 pm, the CEO ordered staff to come into the office asap, and the men showed up in suits and ties, and the women were wearing office attire fully draped in necklaces. Who the hell would answer a sudden call to an office at midnight fully dressed like that? Most of us would first be pissed, and then down a simple pair of slacks, tights, shirt or blouse, sweater, or whatever. These women were wearing full makeup and lipstick like it was 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon. Still, if you understand trading and margins and what goes on on Wall Street, this was nicely done; however, the sudden ending with Kevin Spacey burying his dog in the backyard of his ex's home, where he no longer lives, is ridiculously insane. The writers took us from what seemed to be a high point of the movie with Kevin and Jeremy in the lunchroom negotiating his stay with the company to Kevin burying a dog. OMG! Who wrote that sappy stuff? At least have him take the dog to the vet for a proper burial or cremation. It's like buying your child in the backyard. Who does that? Yuk!! I was left wanting more.

They talk about MBS several times in the story but never define what it was. Mortgage Backed Securities. Banks bundled predominately sub-prime mortgages (poorly graded loans) and sold them around the world. It's what almost destroyed smaller governments who bought them and even our Country in 2008. It's what caused the GFC, The Global Financial Crisis. The movie was a fictional re-creation of how it affected a major securities firm similar to the now defunct Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers of that time. It's a captivating film if you have an interest in Investment Banking. Currently banks are using cheap money to do Stock-Buybacks. Its created over-leveraging and weak "real" economic growth. Watch it and take notes to tell your friends. Know what happened but also knowing HOW it happened is the first preventative measure for the masses. Also recommended; "The Big Short" and Too "Big to Fail" movies.

Good movie with believable acting and a real story. I expected more intrigue, but the movie stuck pretty much to the business at hand - dumping loses into someone else's pockets. I watched the other side of this in real life; it was devastating. The end left me hanging a little, but I finally got the point. Enjoy the film.

Margin Call is probably the best fictional treatment of the latest economic crisis and is, to my mind, in the same league as the wonderful, acutely intelligent documentary Inside Job. The action takes place over a couple of days in the Manhattan headquarters of an unnamed highly respected investment bank and the film opens with the bank's latest round of brutal lay offs. One of the victims is a senior risk analyst who manages to pass on a file to a relatively new employee and the contents of the file are explosive and the bank is on the brink of the biggest bank collapse of all time.The cast is outstanding and includes Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Zachery Quinto and Jeremy Irons in top form as CEO John Tuld. It is Tuld's responsibility to make the margin call which means it is up to him to order the bank to start dumping worthless stock before news spreads of the imminent collapse of the bank an action which hanged their customers out to dry! It is now known that some banks had gone so far as to create hedge funds intended to fail which enabled them to bet against the funds and make money.It is clearly portrayed just how immoral corporations really are; their goal is to succeed and make ever more gargantuan profits, pay their employees obscene salaries without any thought to the human cost involved. The rich protect themselves and get ever richer and there is absolutely no sense of responsibility towards customers or the public interest.Highly recommended.

Having worked as a Director of many financial services firms (UK, European and American) since the 1980’s I was pleasantly surprised how realistic this snapshot of a crisis in the making was portrayed.The film was well paced and the excellent ensemble cast portrayed the situations and pressures they found themselves in well. The attitudes of those portrayed from the high to low was a generalisation but on the whole well done. The callousness was typical of the American firms for which I worked.There were few redundant scenes and you could feel the the tensions rising as the inevitability of the crisis unfolded. These were not necessarily characters with whom you could sympathise but that, perhaps was the point despite the “Labrador” moments.An engrossing film which we’ve watched several times as there is considerable depth to the characters and situations which repays careful repeated viewing,

One of the great movies very underrated with a brilliant cast. Showing how corporations treat loyal staff, how they value people and view the world, great all round performances from a brilliant cast. This film and the Big short show the reasons for the financial mess we are all paying for today.

Film stated off okay, but the amount of swear words were unbelievable - and also so unnecessary. I had to turn down the volume to stop my kids hearing the continuous barrage of expletives. Should I have counted how many. I watched this film to get a feel of what caused the financial crisis and how prop-shops operate in general. I liked the ideas in the film. Jeremy Irons was fantastic and held his role well. Kevin Spacey showed leadership but I expected more. Not sure what Demi Moore brought to the film. I shan't be watching this again and will be donating the film to a very large container i.e. the bin.

Since I receeived it 2 weeks ago, I have played this dvd 8 or 9 times. The dialogue is crisp and direct, the plot spare and rivetting and the subject matter vividly contemporary: a political parable for our times. Jeremy Irons creates a character of power and forbidding aspect manipulating his servants with skill and mesmeric intent. Led by Paul Bettany and Kevin Spacey the chorus of fascinated and fearful slaves obey and we know why, and we are appalled. The nearest comparison is with those biblical epics - like 'The Robe' - without togas, as played out in the offices of a large bank with the money watching from the vaults and playing the part of God: his only credible function these days. I have not watched a better film in decades.