![Margin Call is out on iTunes (so soon?). Rotten Tomatoes viewer responses are split between “boring!” and “this is how it works.”
I think it absolutely nails it. It’s also, in a stage-like way, very physical. The limits the filmmakers (and no doubt their budget) set—tight clock, few locations—leave us with the differences in how the actors occupy those spaces: the slender twenty-somethings, the walrus-jowled, thick-handed fifty-somethings, the golden boy; the lesser golden boy who missed the baton (yeah, it’s pretty much all dudes, and Demi Moore, who still has traces of a tremble that wouldn’t fly in the job she’s cast in). Other than that, everyone’s actions seem wholly grounded in their awareness of their physicality; how directly it corresponds to what possibilities are open to them.
And then Jeremy Irons enters the room—the lion, and the rest of them are cubs.
[photo: zacharyquinto.com]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwkaxhp0uB1qa0rqvo1_500.jpg)
Margin Call is out on iTunes (so soon?). Rotten Tomatoes viewer responses are split between “boring!” and “this is how it works.”
I think it absolutely nails it. It’s also, in a stage-like way, very physical. The limits the filmmakers (and no doubt their budget) set—tight clock, few locations—leave us with the differences in how the actors occupy those spaces: the slender twenty-somethings, the walrus-jowled, thick-handed fifty-somethings, the golden boy; the lesser golden boy who missed the baton (yeah, it’s pretty much all dudes, and Demi Moore, who still has traces of a tremble that wouldn’t fly in the job she’s cast in). Other than that, everyone’s actions seem wholly grounded in their awareness of their physicality; how directly it corresponds to what possibilities are open to them.
And then Jeremy Irons enters the room—the lion, and the rest of them are cubs.
[photo: zacharyquinto.com]
