proxy metrics
4 films tagged with “proxy metrics”
The Big Short
The film's opening gambit is also its thesis. It puts a quotation on the screen — it ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so — and then spends two hours demons…
Moneyball
Moneyball begins with a constraint rather than an insight, and that ordering is the whole reason the film is useful. Beane's description of his position — rich teams, poor teams, fifty feet of crap, and then Oakland — is…
Zodiac
The film is structured as an investigation that refuses to converge, and the structure is the argument. Fincher begins with the murders — sudden, arbitrary, filmed with a flatness that drains them of the dramatic tension…
Gattaca
Gattaca is the clearest film ever made about what happens when a proxy metric becomes the thing itself. The genome was meant to predict outcomes; by the time the film opens it has stopped predicting anything, because it…