2016 Directed by Meera Menon
Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of politics and deception.
Anna Gunn James Purefoy Sarah Megan Thomas Alysia Reiner Sophie von Haselberg Craig Bierko Lee Tergesen Margaret Colin Carrie Preston Michael Izquierdo Nate Corddry Nick Gehlfuss Samuel Roukin Tracie Thoms James Naughton Roe Hartrampf Carolyn McCormick David Alan Basche Joseph Siravo Samrat Chakrabarti Purva Bedi Ali Ahn Meghan Rafferty Jennifer Butler Jeanine Bartel Jonathan Fredrick Kyle Beltran Neil Baltus
Here’s the thing: The idea of a “strong female character” is not a moral determination. Katniss Everdeen, protagonist of the “Hunger Games” saga, may be a strong female character, but that’s not because she’s a hero — it’s not because she’s possessed with an infallible sense of virtue and a Christ-like selflessness that defies any reasonable human standard. By the same token, slathering Scarlett Johansson in spandex and having her fight alongside Iron Man doesn’t make Black Widow a strong female character either, no matter how many asses she kicks.
The strength of a role has nothing to do with decency, and everything to do with depth.
You know a movie has to be (somewhat) basic if they use comic sans for its title sequence.
We seem to have hit a point where the phrase "strong female character" is too easily glanced over. What is a strong female character? Several neo-feminist publications will wrongfully tell you it requires a woman to be in a position of power. They have to be cut-throat, unforgiving about her faults, or having very few to begin with, rejecting the traditions of women past, taking her earned place as Queen of name x-career. If you believed that you may end up with Anna Gunn's character, Naomi Bishop, who fits that audience's kink rather well. I reject that as the exclusive definition. To…
Watched it for the stock stuff, stayed for the stock stuff. Equity is sold across the board, a film that follows a strong woman in a strong man's world; navigating and traversing any and all obstacles that are presented when being a woman on Wall Street. Here we see her develop an IPO with a major security company; confident in her affinity for money but still hampered by external doubts and an increased demand for social interaction nuance. The film hits on lots of important troubles for women, I think, without blowing them up to unrealistic proportions and losing their efficacy in the process. But as Equity progresses, it's clear the film is less interested in the disadvantages of the…
When I initially watched this movie, I think I was too focused on what it isn't — a Wolf Of Wall Street style dark comedy, or a drama with an approachable and human lead fighting for her rights. Looking back on it, I see it more for what it is — a tangled, overcrowded, but strikingly ambitious thriller about women in the workplace, and how navigating corporate politics and Wall Street manipulations is hard enough without fighting the gender wars at the same time. This is one of those "movies for grownups" critics are always saying they want — a complicated drama full of unlikeable characters (and hooray for those!), a lot of nuanced layers, and no adolescent wish-fulfillment or…
i told my mum this film was about the "she-wolves of wall street" and she thought i meant actual wolves :/
The ambition here is not in the high finance plot -- about a hard-nosed banker (Anna Gunn) floating an IPO for some dudebro tech company (aren't they all?) then hitting some trouble due to interpersonal issues with her colleagues -- it's in centering the women characters within the film's male-dominated milieu. The characters feel credible and layered -- or at least the women do; I'm not convinced about the bank's CEO who plays Jenga on his desk (METAPHOR!). I didn't exactly follow every twist in the story, but I liked the interactions and the backstabbing corporate politics.
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Fuck, I don't want to be fine!
I was never supposed to be fine!
I was supposed to be a motherfucking rainmaker.
How would you feel about a character that shouted these words during a pivotal scene? Would you view this character as the protagonist? Would you find this character sympathetic? Would you see them as greedy and villainous? What if this character was a woman? Would it change your perspective? If so, then why?
The scenes in "Equity", including the pivotal shouting one, play out exactly as you'd expect five minutes before they actually happen. For a movie containing no surprises and little suspense, there is still a lot to recommend in this financial thriller. Anna Gunn plays…
When it comes to big screen movies like Margin Call, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short—fine films all—the motto may as well be ‘Boys only’, so it’s a kick to see the spotlight on the ladies for once in Equity, an explosive corporate thriller starring a dynamite Anna Gunn. As investment banker Naomi Bishop, this Emmy winner for Breaking Bad is firing on all cylinders, and she’s not just coming after the pricks at the top. Even her hedge fund boyfriend Michael Connor (a slimy James Purefoy) is not above exploiting her. And she can’t trust the women in her life either. Her protege Erin Manning (Sarah Megan Thomas) is gunning for her job while harboring a…
Fantastic movie.
Easily digestible and narratively taut.
James Purefoy always brings it, this film is no exception.
A movie that tells a story about a senior investment banker, Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn), who lives in a brutal and fierce world of high-power big money. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of politics and deception.
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While I’m not against the idea of a woman being the center point of a movie, I think “Equity” seems too forced (in terms of this movie’s feminist perspective). All men that I saw in this film are depicted like pigs who tend to use women as much as they like for their own benefit, opposing female’s development in every way possible, yet this movie wants you to acknowledge…
El significado la igualdad de género en su máxima expresión, matizado con una historia de intrigas, estafas y manipulaciones que crean un ambiente de tensión y suspenso que te mantiene atento a los acontecimientos.
Una mujer empoderada se enfrenta a sus pares dentro de un mundillo históricamente liderado por hombres de forma ejemplar. Una mirada distinta que nos enseña lo que debe vivir una mujer en un mundo machista.
Equity is a surprisingly engaging and exciting film, feeling almost like a thriller as senior investment banker Naomi navigates the tricky business world, trying to make a name for herself as a woman in a male-dominated field. Anna Gunn of "Breaking Bad" fame is fantastic as Naomi, fighting backstabbing folks of both genders as she struggles to buoy herself after a rocky few months. Strong and powerful, Gunn anchors the film with the shrewd notion that it's okay to like money...it's okay to want to have money...it's okay to want to be successful.
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