Thursday, March 21, 2013

Exploiting each other in Arbitrage

A truly engaging attempt to have it all and keep it all as a powerful and capable man does whatever he wants. Richard Gere plays Robert Miller, a charismatic and silvery hedge-fund manager riding high in New York. Seduction and exploitation in every work, play and family relationship; amidst splashes of money, glamour and pure arrogance. We come face to face with the power of greed and manipulation and realise that this is an integral part of every person's journey! Morality and integrity seem to be ideals that must be sacrificed in growing up in this harsh environment. Arbitrage is the first feature for writer-director Nicholas Jarecki. The classic car crash with his lover exposes a whole series of flawed decisions and we are unsure whether to doubt the cocky but crooked posture of the NYPD investigator, played by Tim Roth. A truly entertaining movie about a man with his back to the wall, can he really get through this without collateral damage and who will pay the ultimate price?

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