The GameStop movie resorts to some David vs. Goliath clichés. At least it has Goliath’s number.
, the breezy new movie about the GameStop stock hysteria of early 2021, starts in a hedge fund guy’s pandemic retreat mansion. Investor Gabe Plotkin is trying to get a house demolished so he can put a tennis court there when he gets a call informing him a bunch of Redditors have blown an enormous hole in his short position against the video game retailer’s stock. A distressed Plotkin sprints through various well-manicured beachfront backyards to get to his desk inmansion and make a call.
way back when. You remember: A massive group of retail traders who organized on the internet bid the price of GameStop’s stock up over a few days, seeking to both make money and blow up Wall Street’s shorts of the stock. The movie tracks how that movement came together—while leaving out that some rich guysBut where the movie is brilliant is in how it treats its hand-picked villains.is a movie about an unprecedented week in the stock market and the forces that brought it about.
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