Inside Job
Charles Ferguson
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Academy Award® Winner for Best Documentary Feature "INSIDE JOB" from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight), comes Inside Job, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Inside Job was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore and China.
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Eye opening
Shows simply and clearly the mess the banks have made. Brilliant.
Brilliant
Perfectly shows the selfish mindset of those entrusted with the finances of a country with a great case study of Iceland
Inside Job
This is an issue that is handled with a forensic analysis that does great credit to its producers. The documentary illustrates how the architects of the global financial edifice, who caused it to collapse, who personally profited in doing so, now serve in an advisory capacity in a current US administration who pledged a radical reform and then failed to deliver it. The documentary shows how every country in the planet has been affected by the economic collapse, connected as they are to an interconnected web of a global financial market that literally holds the power of life and death over millions of people on the planet in a manner that eclipses conventional politics. I kept asking myself throughout this film, 'could this happen again'? The answer in my view is 'yes it can and probably will'. The film left me with the opinion that democratically elected institutions throughout the world, through a combination of financial deregulation and corrupt politics have created a Frankenstein monster, impossible to kill. What we are witnessing is the road to serfdom for millions of people in a massive transfer of wealth from those who create it, into the hands of a small coterie of financial institutions who wield enormous global power. The case study of Iceland at the start of the film is only half the story since the destabilising effect of financial meltdown in now being played out on the streets of Athens in a manner which should concern us all!
In conclusion, the film is as important for what it does not explore as much for what it does, for what is implicit as well as explicit. It is both and explanation as well as a warning!
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- £7.99
- Genre: Documentary
- Released: 2010
- © 2010 Sony Pictures Classics Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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