Review of Inside Job (2010) by Rainer K — 30 Nov 2011

Inside Job tells the story of the 2008 financial crisis in an interesting and bold way. Director Charles Ferguson (or better: narrator Matt Damon) speaks up against the criminality in the financial sector, and - let's face it - he's right!

With keen editing he gives us an insight about how out of control the system actually was (and still is). Inside Job shows what a perfect portrayal of human nature this system is - we are greedy, and we won't stop for nothing as long as we keep earn money from it.

Everyone knew about that bubble that had to burst without any regulations or some reasonable guys at helm.

It makes me angry seeing it (and I guess I'm not the only one...). It's like seeing seals slaughtered or people killed because of racial reasons. Only that this is going on with all elites silently agree on it. Politics are owned by banks, insurances and other megacorporations for not doing their job - and they get paid a lot.

But anyways, at least you're not as lunatic as all the CEOs, VPs and Chairmen themselves you don't have any hope that things will truly change so let's go back to the film.

It's engaging and told by the calm voice of Matt Damon who does a good job. The editing is good as I said, and quite fast and abrupt for a documentary (it sometimes jumps from one interview to another though so that you almost loose track) but it never misses to take a step back and explain what's actually going on.

Highly informative, well-made and makes you shake your head throughout the film...