Movie

The Outsider

2016 · 117 min

A sober, slow-building procedural that makes the trading floor feel like a pressure cooker of quiet ambition and looming consequence.

Overview: A drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned escape goat - Jérôme Kerviel - just as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding
How it feels: Tense, melancholic, earnest and dark. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Ambition, greed, class, betrayal
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
greed
class
betrayal
justice
Places: workplace
big city
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild