Monday, August 1, 2016

Money Monster

Release Date: May 13, 2016

Starring: George Clooney as Lee Gates
Julia Roberts as Patty Fenn
Jack O'Connell as Kyle Budwell

Directed by: Jodie Foster

Written by: Jamie Lenden, Alan DiFiore and Jim Kouf

Lee Gates is the host of a TV Show that helps people choose where to invest their money. When telling how great one stock is he oversells how safe it is. This causes Kyle to invest every last cent into it. A few weeks later a huge dip in the stock causes Kyle to loos everything. In an effort to get some answers Kyle sneaks onto the set and hold Lee hostage for the entire world to see.

One of the best pictures of the year! It's everything that the trailer wanted you to think it was and more. This thriller leaves you wondering who the bad guy really is and who is the victim. George Clooney and Julia Roberts make their character very dynamic as usual. You see all the sides of each of them. Weather is be confident or insecure they are always very believable in every scene of the film. Jack O'Connell is a newer face of the silver screen, most well known for his role in Unbroken, who is playing is character just as well and Clooney and Roberts.

It really questions what is the meaning of money. That not everyone looks at it the same, For some it's a burden, some it's a safety net, and other it's just a play thing. We all want to change the meaning of money in our lives and sometime we can't get past what we have already labeled it as. It's a big part in how our own morals work and how when you don't have it anymore how you morals can change with it. How you see the world differently when you have more than enough or don't have any at all.

It begs the question...

Who really is the monster the money or the people?

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