‘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.

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.