Inside Job: Documentary by Charles Ferguson

[R_P_A_S]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/

I just got back from watching this and I must say... It's pretty good and breaking it down. It makes "capitalims: a love story" look like a cartoon. I highly recommended if you aren't very economic savvy. This is perfect for those people who just want to know how shit went down and why we are in a hole still even with Obama..

[Tatarin]

I guess Matt Damon will have to use the skills he learned from the Bourne-trilogy to get out of this one... :P

[punisa]

Any ideas where can we watch it? :)

[Black Sheep]

Any ideas where can we watch it? :)
I second that.The trailer looked awesome.

But by all means DO NOT reply with possible torrent free download information, because piracy is illegal.
Fortunately, there isn't any torrent version of it.I looked (in order to report it to the authorities).

[x359594]

My reservation about Inside Job is that it suggests that the 2008 financial crisis was an unusual combination of new communications technology, speculation with the creation of new exchange instruments and deregulation fueled by greed rather than a symptom of the capitalist circulation process itself. This is certainly the position of the currency speculator George Soros who was interviewed in the movie, and I suspect it represents the underlying ideology of the filmmakers.

But the movie does a very good job of explaining the proximate causes of the 2008 melt down, and this is its greatest asset.

[spice756]

A good video that shows the problems with the capitalist countries !!

Much better than "capitalims: a love story"

[RadioRaheem84]

Good doc, but reformist in nature and scope.

[Agent Ducky]

I am now determined to watch that movie. No matter what it takes.

[altnet]

Much more serious and less dramatic than Capitalism: A Love Story. It was a decent film overall.

[RATM-Eubie]

Loved it. Very good film. I deffinatly recomend it.

[Agent Ducky]

Idk if there's already a thread about this...

But I just watched it. It's a documentary about the financial crisis that shows how the whole thing was caused by executives at AIG, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, etc. being unfreakingly greedy. And then after they screw up the whole system, they get positions in the financial part of the government (wtf?)... I think the end really showed that reform isn't going to work, it was almost hopeless sounding. The whole thing filled me with anti-cappie rage.

Has anyone else seen it? Opinions?

[praxis1966]

There was a brief discussion of it in another thread I believe. Anyway, I agree that the overall tone of it was reformist but it did serve to raise some very pertinent criticisms of capital that I think most revolutionary leftists would agree with. Unfortunately it came to all the wrong conclusions...

It just makes you wonder how long it's gonna take the rank and file members of US's two parties to wake up to the idea that if you're asking the question, "When are we going to get some regulatory bodies in this country with some teeth?" you're asking the wrong question. The real question is, "How can we prevent a crisis like this from happening again?" That can only lead you to one viable conclusion, the elimination of capitalism, but I have the feeling that if the bleeding hearts who made the film did ask that question they'd lie to themselves about the real answer. As a result, they openly advocate panhandling the government, ie the suggestions they give during the closing credits for getting involved with so-called watchdog and advocacy groups.

[RNL]

It's very good. Just as a detailed account of the actual financial actvities and phenomena that precipitated this crisis. The analysis is relatively superficial and the political conclusions are naive (the interviewees are mainly critical and dissenting establishment figures), but the exposition of the actual ABCs of the process at that surface level is quite fascinating.

I thought the best part was when the filmmakers turned their attention to mainstream, academic economics, and almost stated plainly that it functions as bourgeois ideology. Very unexpected ideas in an Oscar-winning doc.

[x359594]

I've merged the two threads.