Deadlines to Submit your Screenplay, Novel, Story, or Poem to the festival: http://www.wildsound.ca
A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States’ 2008 mortgage crisis.
Director: Steve James
Stars: Neil Barofsky, Ti-Hua Chang, Margaret Colin
Review by Gilbert Seah
ABACUS is an old Chinese adding machine that was commonly used by Chinese shopkeepers who needed to do some accounting or simple addition. It is also a Chinese treasure now made obsolete with the introduction of the calculator. Abacus is thus chosen as the appropriate name for the bank founded by a well-intentioned Chinese lawyer turned banker, who we are introduced to at the start of the film as a good man, who thinks of himself as George Bailey, the James Stewart banker character in Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. In fact when there is a run on Abacus, Mr…
View original post 452 more words
WILDsound Festival 