‘The Big Short’ Breaks My Heart
Watching it after GameStop’s market surge will break yours too. But will it break it enough?
![“The Big Short” by Junichi Yamashita is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 . Graphic by @jazprose. “The Big Short” by Junichi Yamashita is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 . Graphic by @jazprose.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0207ecb1-d22a-4b8d-9afd-1bb6fc5816a8_1000x1000.jpeg)
I watched The Big Short again after hearing about the GameStop frenzy. How amateur investors on Reddit and Robinhood drove up the company’s stock price and made a killing in the stock market — by outsmarting professional short-sellers at the big hedge funds. Only to see their gains plummet within a week.
The movie broke my heart when I saw it the first time in 2015. Last weekend, it broke my heart again.