"The Sea Ultimatum": Novice director plus Dream lineup bring surprises

"Sea ultimatum" poster "The Sea ultimatum" strong lineup as the debut of the Berlin Film Festival competition film, "The Sea Ultimatum" (Margin call) has enough capital to attract attention, cadres three generations of acting star combination in the independent film is a dream, but before understanding more,　　People may be worried about the ability of a new director who has made only a few commercials and a short film to steer the luxury lineup, however, J.C Chandor (J.c.chandor) through the film produced a good answer, completed his debut, also let people see a promising new star director. The film tells of a massive layoff by an investment bank to cut spending before the 2008 financial crisis, and the dismissal of a senior risk analyst by Stanley-Tuchi (Stanley Tucci) who, before being kicked out of the company, found the company's assets operating in a serious loophole, A crisis is coming, and his students, a young analyst, Zachary Quinto, the new Captain Spock, or the great villain of the American drama hero sailor, inherited his work, and within a few hours it was found that the investment bank was in danger of a severe asset devaluation, Zachary. So overnight, the investment bank's mid-level to the top began to study the countermeasures, face the double pressure of moral and money, everyone has their own ideas, the two young analysts think of how to keep their jobs, Kevin Shi, the old top of the play is faced with a greater moral choice, The chief analyst at Demi Moore struggles to make a career woman's voice heard in a crisis, in addition to the problems others face. Such a story that happens almost entirely in a closed space, largely dependent on the dialogue of characters, is not as it was before, "24 hours" + "Wall Street", to more like a mixture of "12 wrath" and "Wall Street".　　However, although the film does not exaggerate the twists and turns of the plot, there is no action scenes, but the cold screen and those unfamiliar with the tension of a computer on the display of the stock market curve can also let people smell the taste of the eve of the crisis. One of the big questions about financial crisis films is how to strike a balance between the financial terminology of the alien language and the understanding of the general audience, Wall Street has found a perfect balance, but unfortunately Wall Street 2 has not been able to sustain the brilliance of the previous The financial crisis in that film is neither financial nor crisis. This film also faces this problem, but Chandor's play is really commendable, through the mouth of the two top brass, played by Kevin Percy and Jerry Irons (Jeremy Irons), the audience not only understands the story by "The Golden Retriever can understand" description, But also the embarrassing fact of the naked show to people, on Wall Street, the more high, the more people who earn more often know less. But what Chandor didIs far more than that, the focus of the film did not put the financial crisis itself, but spent a lot of ink to describe a company at different levels of employees in the face of crisis reaction and inner twists and turns, the way the performance is quite simple and practical-that is a lot of dialogue.　　Of course the most consideration is the actor's acting, then naturally will lead to the following topic, the film's powerful cast. As a new director of the independent film, "Sea Ultimatum" together the star lineup is very strong, the old play bone has Kevin-Shi and Jerry-irons, the Mesozoic of the players Simon-Baker, Demi-Moore, Stanley-Tuchi, Paul-Bethany, Young acting representatives Zachary-Quentin, This is almost seamless in terms of age, and the complete actor line in the film cooperates exceptionally harmoniously, everybody's play is very average also very natural, the plot also did not obviously revolve around a face to unfold, each actor all outstanding has played the own proper level, This makes a story that is not fascinating in itself attractive enough. But even for a group of people who have played a great game, the most eye-catching of all is the Kevin-Percy.　　His role in the film can be regarded as one of the most stereoscopic, from the film began to the survival of the survivors to the crisis after the display of the integrity of the nature, and to the end of the helpless return to reality, his role can be said to have undergone the most changes and inner struggle. Which will prevail when money and morals collide? "The sea ultimatum" does not give a clear answer, the film did not deliberately create a positive or negative role, all of whom are, in a way, a survivor, as Jerry Irons in a little speech at the end of the film, and the rules of the financial industry are doomed to fall down every cycle. While it seems that Jeremy's CEO is at all costs and abandons all moral values to keep his company, in the financial industry, trying to keep his ship is not heavy, I am afraid is the only sensible and only moral choice. As discussed later in the film conference, the nature of the film is Chandor (and several starring) pessimism about the American capitalist financial system, which has worked for hundreds of years. (Sina Entertainment Front report group from Berlin/lee)