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Liotta is Jimmy Cayne, former CEO of Bear Stearns, who refused to participate in the bailout of LTCM years ago (heist #1 when Liotta really did do it), and so was allowed to die by the other bosses(Bear was the first to go down, before Lehman). The card games are the financial system itself - trading and investing being gambling in this case. Once ...

Based on evidence like this... "This is an unrepentantly cynical take on the hope-and-change promised to the US in 2008" reviewer in The Guardian from the film's creator Andrew Dominik in an interview: "as I started adapting it, it was the story of an economic crisis, and it was an economic crisis in an economy that was funded by gambling, and the crisis ...