Inside Job (2010): Takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown. (8.2)
Director: Charles Ferguson
Writers: Charles Ferguson, Chad Beck and Adam Bolt
Stars: Matt Damon, William Ackman and Daniel Alpert
This documentary does a very good job of explaining how it all happened, what the derivatives and the CDOs are, and of showing us who the crooks were. It does use charts and graphs, as well as text on the screen, which I liked. It is a bit better (in the documentary style) than the boring PBS shows (;-)) and if you are not mad way before the halfway point (at them money grubbing greedy bourgeois capitalist pigs) then you haven't being paying attention. [It is amazing how the same people who fail time and again at managing multi-million dollar corporations are given second and third chances to screw up more of the economy. Elliot Spitzer says at one point that the difference between the financial institutions and the tech companies is that the tech giants actually make stuff. heh!] Matt Damon's narration is pretty good. My Rating: 8.0
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