Inside Job

[dugdeep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyW3M-UTIWM

"From Academy Award® nominated 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.

Narrated by Academy Award® winner Matt Damon, INSIDE JOB was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China."

Looks good. In the same vein as "Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room". Let's hope it wakes some people up.

[Ellipse]

The movie is actually on the screen here in France. Has someone see it ?

[dugdeep]

I did end up seeing it a month or so ago. It's great, but from what I can tell not enough people are seeing it.

It doesn't quite go far enough in implicating Wall Street high rollers as psychopaths (although it does hint at the idea that there are antisocial tendencies at work here). Overall it does a great job of illustrating how the whole scam has happened, who is responsible and how those people are still in power and working on round 2. I think it's a very important film, but like I say, not enough people are seeing it.

[Ellipse]

This is how the system work. You can tell the truth but with an insufficient promotion who care ?

I will promote it at my level. Thanks for your review dugdeep.

[Windmill knight]

I just saw this documentary and it is great! It explains really well how the 2008 crisis happened, who is to blame and what sort of people they are.

Just wanted to give it some thumbs-up and recommend it. It's particularly  relevant right now and it helps understand the mechanics behind the whole thing.

[Aragorn]

I also saw this recently, it was very well done. I warmly recommend it!

[Patrick]

I watched this movie yesterday afternoon on one of the Starz channels.  I thought it very well done, and it certainly appeared to be heartbreakingly factual.

Not too long ago I would have watched it and been outraged but unsurprised by the seeming coldness and inhumanity of the perpetrators as they looked into the camera and shamelessly told lie after lie that they simply could not have failed to know would be perceived as lies by any thinking person.  I would have been amazed by their hubris and saddened by the sorry state into which our affairs had fallen, that creatures such as these were allowed to create havoc and destruction in one high position and, when caught,  given a big bucks bonus and allowed to retire or, worse still, be quietly shuffled off to another high position from which they could continue their criminal activities. 

Not too long ago I wouldn't have thought much more about it; how much can you think about the unthinkable?

Today, however, knowing what I know about psychopaths, I have to tell you that watching this bunch of them chilled me to the bone.  It's as though what I've absorbed intellectually was transmitted viscerally and transformed into some sort of body-knowledge that these varmints ain't us.

Pogo's famous quote, "We have met the enemy and he is us", should be revised to, "We have met the enemy and he just looks like us...and he'll tear the beating heart out of your chest for a dollar".

I've read many times on this site that "knowledge protects".  Thank you all for the protection you provide.

[Turgon]

Just finished seeing it now and it was really well done.  I think one of the big issues with the banking and investment systems is that they purposely create these overcomplications of what they do which makes it harder to follow what is going on. 

But this movie really helped to explain what happened in practical terms, so kudos to the director who was also the writer.

One other thing that I was thinking when watching it was the role of the Federal Reserve.  This may be because I just started reading Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but I think Greenspan has been pushing this deregulation of the financial sector for so long as a means of purposely destabilizing the american economy.  These investors on Wallstreet definitely seem like psychopath's but it was more a case of opening the floodgates and letting them do what psychopath's do through deregulation, namely destroy their own companies and the folks who's money they are supposed to take care, as if the reserve knew this was going to happen, osit.