The real joke is in the credits.
did its own mild-mannered fact-check, so I’m not going to bother — but a narrative failure as well.boringhas provided every main character with a partner so that character can deliver long, exposition-heavy monologues. For instance, Gill, played by an egregiously miscast Paul Dano, is out drinking with his buddy, and his main character trait is that he won’t spend $5 for a beer but will spend $50,0000 on a stock he thinks is a joke.
The problem here is that none of these characters really interact or even intersect. Gill doesn’t have a relationship with any of the other retail traders, really, except his brother Kevin , who logs onto his stream to troll him. His posts are mentioned by other characters, but this serves to dilute the weirdness of the r/WallStreetBets phenomenon; Gill was just one of many posters.The disconnected nature of all the players means no one gets fully developed.
The writers might have had more time to create real characters if they’d spent less time on the Wall Street dudes Gabe Plotkin, Steve Cohen, and Ken Griffin, who exist only as the objects of schadenfreude. While Seth Rogen’s performance as Plotkin is a delight — he seems to have been spliced in from a substantially better movie — I’m not sure why he was necessary.
The only character in the entire movie who seems to understand the spirit of GameStop is Kevin Gill, who occasionally steals Keith’s car, eats food he’s hired to deliver, and generally functions as a force of anarchy. Pete Davidson easily steals the show — he’s a fully realized weirdo, not just an archetype of what Hollywood thinks is an average person. A better version of this movie would have featured more weirdos with specific personalities because that’s what normal people are like.
This movie is about the small triumph of the little guys pulling one over on the rich, which is not actually how things happened. It is, however, financed by the wealthy, people like the Winklevoss twins, who benefit from letting the average Joe think beating the house is possible.
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