Saturday, August 3, 2019

Arbitrage (2012)

  I fucking hated this movie.  I was mad the entire time I watched it.

Billionaire Rober Miller (Richard Gere) falls asleep while driving and wrecks, killing his mediocre artist girlfriend (Laetitia Casta).  Instead of calling the cops, he reaches out to Jimmy (Nate Parker), the son of his former driver, for help.  The cops circle Miller but can't touch him due to his wealth so they try to pin everything on Jimmy.  Why didn't Miller go to the cops?  1) All the white dude privilege and 2) he is trying to sell his company before anyone figures out he's been cooking the books for 20 years.

Can you see why I didn't like it?

At every turn, Miller is given a chance to come clean with little to no repercussions and instead doubles down on his illegal shit.  If there was ever a movie to inspire you to eat the rich, this is it.

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