This is one of those hidden gems in The Big Short. Steve Carell's character Mark Baum has just fully realized that the U.S. stock market is going to crash and he connects this impending economic doom with his own brother's suicide. Mark Baum admits that his first inclination when his brother came to him was to offer him money. I think that Mark here is connecting Wall Streets' obsession with money with his own perceived failure in trying to offer his brother money when he needed help.

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In this scene, Mark finally opens up and talks about the details of his brother's death, how his face was smashed presumably when Mark saw him in the mortuary. Earlier in the movie, Mark was going to group therapy to talk about his issue, but all he really did was run in, co-opt the entire group for a few minutes, and run out on a phone call. This is the first time he has really put down his shield of virtue and allowed himself to grieve his brother's death.

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Mark's wife Cynthia has some great words of wisdom during this clip, "Stop trying to fix the world". Isn't it so true that when we can't fix something within ourselves we lash out at the world trying to fix it instead? This is what Mark is trying to do most of the movie, fix the salesman on the phone, fix the stock market, fix the banking industry, fix the world...but all the while not able to fix himself until the whole world comes crashing down.

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