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 shallow…
i told my mum this film was about the "she-wolves of wall street" and she thought i meant actual wolves :/
It's....ok. Not particularly bad, but then again, not particularly good either. In the end it doesn't provide anything that we haven't seen before in better cinematic offerings, but I'll say it isn't a terrible way to spend some time on a lazy Monday afternoon.
Al final no fue tan buena aunque parecía, parece que quiere mostrar que las mujeres pueden ser igual de tramposas que los hombres y de eso se trata la equidad...me gustó la historia de la acción, la salida a la bolsa.
i love financial thrillers!! sue me
a cool passion project that was produced by the two actresses starring in the main supporting roles. maybe i’m projecting because i looked up that the writer is a playwright but i like that its this austere shakespearian financial drama that stars mostly women. (austerity is the #1 thing i like in movies that i don’t like in real life).
this film is the only example i could find of a female written and directed financial thriller other than lorene scafaria’s 2019 hustlers, which is pretty crazy.
to me, it being one of a kind when it was made only four years ago is the only really remarkable thing about this film. beyond the…
Proudly declares itself the first female driven Wall Street film, because driven now requires not just the principle cast and plot but also writing and directing. The real kicker of this claim is that every female character in Equity is burdened by five stereotypical concerns of women: underappreciation, unfaithfulness, pregnancy compromising career, manipulative flirtation, and reaching Incredible Hulk levels of ravenousness for chocolate.
Through that lens, being the first isn’t something to be proud of. Equity’s one saving grace is breakout Breaking Bad star Anna Gunn taking a role overstuffed with boardroom power pitch language and somehow sailing on it. In that way, Equity shares much in common with Taylor Schilling’s excellent pre-Orange performance in Atlas Shrugged, a Libertarian wet…
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It doesn’t come together as well as it should’ve, especially since it has most of the right ingredients at its disposal, but Equity is a decently crafted and often intelligently written if flawed financial drama elevated by a terrific cast, especially a ruthless Anna Gunn.
This is incredibly plausible and interesting to watch unfold. All the characters are just impure enough to work just around the rules to get what they want, and this is how business is done. Scratch the surface, and this is what it looks like.
I liked this as much as I could like any movie about banking. Some of the stuff about a woman's career worth being decided by her appearance was particularly maddening because it's so true. I also love that this was an all-women creatives production.
Sure, some of the characters weren't as fleshed out as I'd like them to be but the focus on strong female protagonists operating and owning in a man's world succeeded in making sit up and take notice in a genre I usually routinely avoid.
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