Have you seen a good movie lately?

    

I saw two movies over my Christmas break and

Even though the settings were in different centuries

There were several commonalities, mostly addressing

Character.

The Big Short was about the economic crash of 2008

Brought on by a few devious players who had a brilliant

Scheme to get rich no matter how much it affected the

Rest of the world as indeed it did.

They told a few well placed lies (fraud) and the rest is

History. The story as you may recall does not have a

Happy Hollywood ending, but it is educational in an “I

Told you so” kind of way.

The second movie The Hateful Eight takes us back to the

 1800s when stage coaches were the common mode of

 transportation and folks were a little more rough and tumble

 than is usual nowadays. Quentin Tarrentino writes a brilliant

 scheme to fool the second stage coach of hapless victims and true

to form makes everybody join the blood bath.

The money motive/Greed is comparable to The Big Short

except back in more gritty times, folks did not mind shooting

to kill if somebody got in their way.

I would like to say that “When we know better we do better”

but all out destruction simply takes another form between the two

centuries.

One thing about the 1800s is that if somebody shot you, you

could see who it was and shoot back.

In 2008, the sneaky snakes who collapsed the world economy

with a few flourishes of the keyboard were invisible to the

people whose lives were devastated and who never knew who

(specifically) was responsible!

I highly recommend both movies; each told a good story and

the stories were driven by colorful, gnarly characters.

Raintreepoet, reporting.

P.S. Happy 2016!