So that day I went to watch Money Monster (together with Bren).
I've already read lousy reviews about that movie but I thought to check out if it was really that bad, after all is a Jodie Foster's production really that bad?
Well, I think those actors / actresses whose acting are basically just more or less their normal, off-screen self when on the movie set, are not bringing much to the table. I mean, what difference does it make watching them from an interview and watching them from the movie. They have just became lazy that's all.
Okay, unimpressive acting skills aside, let's talk about the plot.
Okay lah, so-so plot. I won't condemn it because it does have an important message although nobody will want to talk about it anymore. It is about being burnt from so-called portfolio investments that layman know nuts about. The irresponsibility of the financial industry, touting this as best, that as better, crashing the lives of folks who can't afford to loose their coffin money. Of course the ordinary folks were not forced to make investments that they couldn't afford to loose, they were basically naive or stupid or just want to have a better life.
The layman looser who wants some answers.
Perhaps due to the character having more creative room, this younger chap delivered a more emotional performance as compared to the veteran actors. The desperation about having lost the only money that his late mother left him, and having to struggle to make ends meet and having to walk away from his GF who is expecting his baby because he felt that he could never be a father to a child since he is already having so much trouble making ends meet by himself.
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