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Rarely is the ultra-geek term of "high-frequency commerce" used in the same phrase as "thriller", but writer and director Kim Nguyen tries it out with a new film called "The Hummingbird Project".
The film "exposes the ruthless limits of our increasingly digital world," which vaguely describes how much traders have become so desperate for a benefit that they are constantly trying to speed up transactions before that the market can not catch up. In the markets, this is called "front running".
The opening scene of the trailer of "The Hummingbird Project" – which is strikingly similar to the opening pages of Michael Lewis's book on the same subject, titled "Flash Boys" – shows cousins from New York , Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) discussing the logistics needed to build a straight fiber optic cable between Kansas and New Jersey.
The better the line, the better is the computer that can reduce the millisecond fractions of an exchange. In a market where algorithms dominate, executing transactions in the blink of an eye is important. A lot.
"Anton is the brain, Vincent is the mainstay," says the movie's website. "Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), their former boss, is a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative shopkeeper who constantly breathes in her neck and will stop at nothing to stop and beat them at their own game."
The studios probably took note of the recent successes of Wall Street films, including "The Big Short", which was also based on a book by the same name Lewis, and "The Wolf of Wall Street".
However, in "Flash Boys", the protagonists are a group of Wall Street guys, led by Brad Katsuyama, a real trader turned CEO, who are trying to address the shortcomings that allow speed traders to get a benefit and to expose what they saw. as a rigged system. Netflix is reported to have released a movie version of "Flash Boys".
The film will be released in some theaters on March 15th.
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