- Title: Arbitrage
- Duration: 107
- Country: EEUU
- Director:Nicholas Jarecki
- Script:Nicholas Jarecki
- Year: 2012
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmJSV9ePx7c
- Synopsis: Fraud is a tense and seductive thriller about love and loyalty in the world of high finance. The protagonist of the film is Robert Miller (Richard Gere), a magnate who on the eve of his 60th birthday seems the perfect portrait of American success in his professional and family life, always accompanied by his faithful wife Ellen (Susan Sarandon) and Brooke ( Brit Marling), his daughter and heir to his empire. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller has the water around his neck, desperate to complete the sale of his empire to a large bank before exposing a fraud he has committed. In addition, he maintains an affair with a French art dealer (Laetitia Casta) behind his wife and daughter. Just as he is about to get rid of his troubled empire, a bloody and unexpected mistake forces him to rediscover himself with a ghost of his past and to face the limits of his double standards.
'Banking and Finance' in the film
The
main character's power of conviction in the finantial negotiation brunch is shown, for example, in the following linked scene. Thanks to his fortune and position in the business world,
he negotiates at will, put the conditions he considers
appropriate, and even set higher prices, even when initial lower price had been already accepted, as he ends up by confessing.
Personal comentary
This film shows the arrogance and greed in
the financial sphere, full of people who transcend the limits
to obtain power, whatever the price. In this case, the main character plays with a double standard. On one hand, a charming and
sophisticated gentleman, married to a woman at his height but, on the other
hand, a man tormented and overshadowed by his own fortune. As with many Wall
Street workers, Robert Miller played with the money that people left with
confidence in their hands and made irresponsible bets with him. This led him to
build the great trap on which the story moves but that personality that the
director designed for the protagonist is what makes the deception fade and
appear reality, a reality that completely muddles the life of the character.
Finally, we realize that, despite the deceptions and the dark plot that
surrounds Miller, this is not a villain as such because his mistakes are the
ones that make us reflect and doubt which side to position us during most of
the film.
Undoubtedly,
an easy-to-see and interesting film that lets us see the economy from a
different perspective.
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