Cold Wallet’s director wanted to make a revenge thriller for the crypto era
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Summary
Cold Wallet, a new film from director Cutter Hodierne that hits US theaters and digital platforms today, is a darkly comedic home invasion thriller that’s also an extremely raucous parable about how the house nearly always wins.
“With Billy, it’s about this tug and pull between enthusiasm and desperation,” Hodierne says.
“Enthusiasm to evangelize Tulip coin’s possibilities to his friends, and then his desperation when it’s all gone,” Hodierne continues, “He’s the embodiment of a freefall event or a crash in the crypto market, and he has this level of rage that’s been amplified tenfold because this was his last fucking try and it backfired.”
Cold Wallet is about a group of retail investors who become increasingly strained and psychotic in their efforts to seek revenge after they bet their savings on a crypto currency that’s seemingly been pulled out from under them.
Hodierne uses the film’s heightened, often cartoonish tension to illustrate the sense of desperation that often leads to people putting so much faith in digital currencies.