Movie Review: Inside Job Directed by Charles Ferguson

Inside Job Directed by Charles Ferguson
Cinema Release Date: November 17, 2010
Film available on DVD on: March 23, 2011
With Matt Damon, Christine Lagarde, Dominique Strauss-Khan
American feature film. Genre: Documentary
Time: 02h00min Production Year: 2010
Oscar for Best Documentary Film: Oscars / Academy Awards 2011 Edition No. 83

Explaining the world economic crisis that we have gone through (and we still suffer the consequences)?

I could not go into details, but basically the main reason is economic deregulation, advocated all-out by economists (paid by banks) and financial administrators, mostly American (and former bankers ). It has existed for nearly thirty years, but it exploded in the last ten years and has caused this crisis.

The documentary begins in Iceland, this virtuous paradise, where banks were privatized by the government a few years ago, went crazy and have helped to bankrupt the country. Then the U.S. would follow, and finally the world or almost ...

In some chapters, Charles Ferguson dismantled one by one the mechanisms of this greed introduced by banks using speculation on real estate (subprime, etc.). For this he uses a whole battalion of economists, journalists, administrators, financial or political figures, including our two heroes Frenchies Christine Lagarde and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Even if the ugliest of the protagonists of this crisis not to answer questions relevant documentary, he managed to dig up some, including those teachers eco large American universities who write books paid by banks, while they are themselves consultants. In short, it's conflict of interest galore and is dumbfounded to discover also that all these crooks who have worked under the Bush administration are still there and still under that of Obama ready to find solutions.

The demonstration of this vast bazaar is so relentless and sheds light on the tragic sad world we live in, where the guilty are far too powerful to be torn to pieces. Charles Ferguson tape so where it hurts and does so remarkable even if I have to admit, despite the graphics and other figures in illustration, many elements of understanding escaped me. It is an extremely complex topic indeed, not to put before all eyes.