The Villains of Inside Job
The current financial crisis has resulted in a few documentaries (when will see an old-fashioned Hollywood take on the story?), though maybe we'll have to be content with "Wall Street 2". Among the documentaries made about the crisis, there is "I.O.U.S.A." and also "Inside the Meltdown", but perhaps the best known was directed by the indefatigable Michael Moore. In "Capitalism: A Love Story", we get to see once again the same movie that Moore has directed many times before, only with different characters and settings: the bad guys remain the same as always. With "Inside Job" by Charles Ferguson, we see another effort to explain the crisis that came crashing down on us three years ago.
Great editing, at the pace of a music video, with a figure like Matt Damon narrating, along with the use of the tricks that Moore has shown us in the past: the bad guys are approached and asked questions they don't expect or a blank screen stating that they refused to cooperate.
"Inside Job" is a product for the masses, and thus shies away from a serious economic analysis of the reasons the crisis happened, or why we citizens make such erroneous economic decision- like buying a home that is beyond our means- and we then wait for someone to bail us out. The fault is always someone else's.
The movie presents a vision, though partial, of the 2008 financial crisis.
