Inside Job

Though I was unable to watch it this weekend, one documentary I have watched in the past that I found very interesting was the film Inside Job directed by Chris Ferguson. In this film, Ferguson uses first hand accounts of many prominent businessmen across the world to go deeper in depth about the financial crisis that caused a meltdown here in the United States and in countries abroad. Ferguson actually describes it as "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption. The film is broken up in five main parts that look how we got to the place we are now, the years before the meltdown, the actual crisis, the accountability (or lack of) involved and where we are now as a result of the crisis. The film has received critically acclaimed praises for its presentation, research and other positives as well. The main purpose of this film is to inform the uninformed (and even the well informed) about the financial crisis of the late 2000's that crippled the United States' economy. Being a documentary, it is easy to be boring and uninteresting but this film does a really good job with a liberal use of animated charts and graphs and interesting music to keep the viewer hanging on to every word. The many first hand accounts really add to the film as well making the viewer realize that these people were the ones that caused or tried to stop the meltdown from happening. They aren't "paid actors" as the saying goes. It is evident that Ferguson and crew did their research and compiled vasts amounts of data, testimonies, and other important pieces of information to add. Being relatively young when the crisis happened I didn't and still don't fully understand what happened. But this film did a good job of teaching me a lot about it. One can take away a lot from a film like this because it looks deeper into the greed and evil nature of many Americans who will stop at nothing to make a quick buck.