The Big Short

Visually, The Big Short drove me nuts. The costumes where fine, the sets were fine, but the wigs and hair!!! Good grief, what was going on there?

The condition of Christian Bale's hair was explained away because his character (Michael Burry) cut his own; OK, fair enough, but it was so obviously a wig. This was a man who cared little about his appearance, and yet his hair never grew, it never changed, and it never got overly long before he hacked at it with nail scissors or whatever was to hand.

Steve Carrell for some reason had streaks. I can't imagine Mark Baum, a man who wore cheap looking checked blue suits and had little patience for anything, sitting in a hairdressers enduring the process of having highlights put in.

Finally, and worst of all was Ryan Gosling. His hair colour was so obviously out of a bottle, and done minutes before filming started. You could almost see the staining on his hairline and scalp.

Although there were a number of moral questions I felt the film raised (and they are not for here), I enjoyed the film; but visually, I was tormented by hair! On the other hand, Brad Pitt's do was just right, untouched and left natural, just as his character, Ben Rickert, would have left it.