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Movie Review: Inside Job
Some time ago now, I finally watched the film: Inside Job, by Charles Ferguson. It was an excellent documentary for people who don’t want to understand the financial crisis but for those of us who enjoy the "Michael Moore"-type of films. I say this because the movie has an angry tone towards the American Financial System and its consequent meltdown in 2007.
It depicts the late-twentieth-century American economic policy in an effort to reveal and unfold the roots of the recent crisis – which is attributed to alliance between politics, academics and big business. The film received an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and is both a careful exposition of the causes and effects of the crisis that shook the world in September 2008, when 20 trillion dollars were lost.
The movie is a documentary narrated by Matt Damon who seems to be the journalist behind the extensive interviews, however, the piece bases all its research on Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short,”. The documentary looks at all the people who made mistakes and asks how they possibly could have overlooked a crisis so obvious
There are many facts and areas that the movie analyses, ranging from the impact of America’s influence on Iceland’s economy, to the changes suffered in American and World society after the break.
The director’s style is to allow his interviewees do the talking, with a sober voiceover from Matt Damon, but later in the movie, the strategy gets really aggressive, and even there’s a touch of Michael Moore in the later scenes, when he (Damon) insists on hard questioning and cross examining of an economic adviser [under Bush's presidency, who is currently the Dean of the Columbia University Business School] on the cozy relationship between academia and government.
Particularly, it’s parts four and five of the film (“Accountability” and “Where are we now?”) that are the most devastating. By exposing debatable facts and figures, Ferguson makes it clear that the individual men and women behind the decisions that caused the crisis not only benefited from what happened, but are still running the financial services sector; also, the director briefly comments on the more sordid side of the crisis – the cocaine and prostitutes paid for with money from the people because bankers competed for bigger deals and better bonuses. He also cross examines the academic world– exposing the role that business school economists played in creating the chaos, by giving arguments that supported the financial bubble.
It’s an insightful and very eloquent story of the worst kind of greed, and with the deliberate lack of a resolution, the film – which requires some concentration – will almost certainly leave you feeling that heads must roll off.
what a great movie. Thank you very much for the information. I really like a Michael Moore movie called, Where do we invade now?
ResponderEliminarI have never seen it, but I find it interesting, I would like to know a little more about the intrinsic corruption of the international financial system
ResponderEliminarThe film sound very interesting, especially because it reveals corruption between different social actors
ResponderEliminarIt is really terrible how the financial system operates in the United States, I hope that the current president of that country Joe Biden can change that, at least he proposed to modify the tax law, which would put more taxes on the super rich.
ResponderEliminarI have never hear about director and his movies (obviously), but Inside Job sounds very interesting so I will add it to my list!
ResponderEliminarI dont feel attracted by the movie topic, but I could give it a chance someday...
ResponderEliminarI will add the documentary to my to-do list. It strikes me that an artist as well-known as Matt Damon dares to investigate something as dangerous as this.
ResponderEliminarI am not interested in economics in general but the documentary sounds very interesting, how terrible how it works in the USA!
ResponderEliminarI had heard of it before, but I think this post makes me want to see it.
ResponderEliminarI don't know much about economics but it seems necessary to me learn about it, the documentary sounds very interesting so I will definitely watch it at some point.
ResponderEliminarfrom what you tell about the film it looks interesting, personally I like films that are immersed in political and historical contexts that leave teachings.
ResponderEliminarI've never seen this movie, but i like Watergate for the same director
ResponderEliminarI had never heard of that movie, but it looks very interesting, especially how it reveals the dark side of human greed
ResponderEliminarI hadn't heard about this documentary, but it looks very interesting since it exposes this kind of issues.
ResponderEliminarI have never seen this film, but I will see
ResponderEliminarIt's not the kind of thing I'm interested in seeing, but it sounds interesting
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