From Rachel Feilden, Tellisford, Somerset, UK
Simon Ings observes that The Hummingbird Project is scripted and filmed like a true-life story, and asks who would make up a thriller about high-frequency trading infrastructures (13 July, p 30). He says the film springs entirely from the head of writer-director Kim Nguyen.
Has Nguyen not read Flash Boys: A Wall Street revolt ? In this, in 2014, Michael Lewis showed us multiple facets of high-frequency trading, opening with plans to install optical fibre in as straight a line as possible between New York/New Jersey and Chicago. Ings also recommends The Big Short – the film of another book by Lewis. The person who so elegantly brought these factual accounts to light deserves credit.
