Charles Ferguson–who wrote, produced, and directed this enlightening documentary–captures the look of panic on the faces of many of the principals in the near collapse of the U. S. banking system (the heavy weights like Greenspan and Bernanke declined to be interviewed for this film). If you want to know how we got into this financial mess, Ferguson, with Matt Damon narrating, lays it all out: the drugs, the prostitutes, the pay-offs, the money-laundrying, the phony investment ratings, the “regulators” who looked the other way, the billions in executive compensation, the whole scam. Inside Job shows what I suspected: plenty of academics at our “finest” colleges and universities acting as shills for the banking industry. Ferguson makes the complicated clear and the perplexing understandable. I’m urging all of my students to see this film. You should see it, too! GRADE: A+
Horror films stay with me too long. But I’m glad the film was made.
When you leave INSIDE JOB, Patti, you’re left with the feeling: this financial mess could happen again.
It’ll probably take a while for this to wend its way to Milwaukee.
I’ll watch for it.
Well, worth watching, Beth! It should win an Oscar for BEST DOCUMENTARY.
Drugs, prostitutes, pay-offs, money-laundering–now I know why you’re so into finance and economics, George.
I’ll catch this flick eventually, but my oh my it sounds depressing.
I didn’t feel depressed after INSIDE JOB, Drongo. I felt angry! These clowns trashed the economy and walked away with millions (some even billions!). And no one was held accountable. Grrrrr!
Are you kidding? They are doing it again right now. And they are punishing the little guy for getting in the way of their fun in the first place, and slowing them down. I’m already steamed enough, so I’ll take a while to see this, but I will indeed see it. I still haven’t even had a chance to read The Big Short.
INSIDE JOB will only add to your loathing of bankers and mortgage agents, Rick. It’s a terrific documentary that lays out the case that Wall Street and the Treasury and the Fed screwed us.
I gotta say your choice of a pic to illustrate the film was INSPIRED!!!
Carmen Electra does not appear in INSIDE JOB, Dan, but she could have.