THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

I’m really interested to watch this, I’ve very rarely mentioned it (/s) but I was there, and had no idea about any of the trouble until I was basically in Watford after the match because of extremely poor signal.

Some of the interview's are quite illuminating. One young fella citing being filmed on top of a bus steaming drunk as the greatest achievement of his life to date. "I wouldn't change anything about that day". When asked what his parents thought it turns out that his father was filmed climbing up a building at a previous tournament.

For all the reasons you liked it, I didnt.

The footage was interesting but the narrative fell into to two irritating camps for me:

Those that were in charge of the event, laying the blame and responsibility for it all at others doors.

Those that took part in the unrest getting a platform to glorify what happened as some sort of trophy.

Not one for me.

Margin Call

A film from 2011 with a bit of an ensemble cast including Demi Moore, Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany, Zack Quinton and Stanley Tucci amongst others.

its set in an investment bank and is loosely based around the events that would utlimately lead up to the banking crash of 2007 although this is entirely fictional. There is a lot of banking speak which is not always easy to follow but ultimately a junior risk analyst discovers that the trading position of the bank is perilous due to high risk trades they have been undertaking and nobody knew. This leads to the head of the organisation (Jeremy Irons) making the decision to sell all their more or less worthless products to the other banking organisations before anyone else realises they are worthless.

Its fast paced but relatively calm to watch, very dialogue heavy but as its set in offices generally there is a lot of quiet with the hum of aircon being heard as a constant throughout. Its depicts the greed and risk really well with one trader obsessed with how much money everyone else is making but is permeated by an elevator scene where two senior protagonists who knew more about the risk they had divulged who decided to start to turn on each other and have a conversation in front of a cleaner that really should have been totally private, depicting how little they thought of that person that they could speak the way they did without care.

Its easier to watch than describe and I really enjoyed it.

8/10

Datenight with miss beard tonight, twisters at the cinema! Well worth the price of admission. Nice build to the film, never dragged, high octane and some edge of your seat moments. Satisfying ending and i wouldnt say no to a sequel!

Go see it, support your local cinema before we live in a dystopian future!