The subplot with Sam Roger's dog is confusing - are we supposed to infer that he cares more about this dog then he does
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JDuu — 13 years ago(March 01, 2013 12:43 PM)
I would infer from Sam's line earlier in the film about it "costing a thousand dollars a day" to keep his dog alive is a metaphor for the company. Until now they had "somehow" managed to keep it afloat over the last two weeks, regarding stepping over the ratios, but had finally reached breaking point.
Same as with the dog, Sam has been throwing money at the problem to make it go away but in the long term he knows that it can't last and the dog will inevitably die.
He then symbolically buries it as the company folds or is irrecoverably damaged following the events of that day's trading. -
susanleslie2 — 12 years ago(June 18, 2013 12:56 PM)
I took the very last scene as a literal re-enactment of Rogers's day:
He knows where the bodies are buried because he had a major role that day in burying them.
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cenan-gumus — 12 years ago(November 15, 2013 12:07 AM)
I think the dog is a metaphor for markets. And the tumor growing in her represents leveraged products. We hear that the dog is very ill the day before the fire sale and Sam burries the dog at the end of the movie.
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db-155 — 12 years ago(December 20, 2013 05:13 AM)
To me the dog motif can be seen most clearly as a repetition of the Lurie character's work with dogs in J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace", a Booker Prize winner I am sure the scriptwriter would have read. But even if they hadn't there is a long history of animals being a way to stage a human character's ethics outside the political dimensions of the plot.
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Bree_33 — 11 years ago(September 24, 2014 03:00 PM)
A very insightful thread, thanks guys!
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JeffAtlanta2004 — 11 years ago(April 02, 2015 10:07 AM)
This is one of those situations where a cigar is just a cigar.
It's a huge stretch to say that the use of the dog was symbolism. Sam was just a miserable soul and the unconditional love of his dog made it his only friend.
