This is a film about the financial crash of 2008, how the foundations of the crisis were built, the inflation of the bubble, the crash itself and the aftermath. An American film concentarting mainly but not completely on what went on in the USA and what has changed since.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/inside-job/5062
For anyone who's voiced an opinion on the many many threads on the subject on here the film must be regarded as compulsory viewing. Much of the story you will have read about, heard or seen already but what the film does is put the whole story together from the very start to the the present day and as a result allows the viewer to tie together many of the different threads that run through the greatest financial disaster since the Great Depression.
While the greed and wicked cynicism of the investment bankers should be no surprise to anyone, what came across most strongly for me was the culpability of the US Government administrations from Clinton to the present day. Forget the lie that the crash was caused by the Democrats forcing banks sell mortgages to the poor, the reality is far more subtle than that. The story of politicians either caving in or enthusiastically following the wishes of the banking industry is a chilling one and the film finishes by pointing out that that those who were responsible for the crash in the US are still running the US economy having been reappointed by Barak Obama.
I left the film wondering whether the US Government is in some respects no different to that of Egypt, Liberia or the Congo where many of those in positions of great power are there to fill their own pockets first and serve the nation second. The USA is a super power in decline which needs to focus all it's efforts on maintaining it's position in the world. One is left thinking that it's decline can only be accelerated by the vested interests of powerful men running an industry that should serve it's country but instead seeks to rob it.
