Review of Too Big to Fail (2011) by Adrian M — 20 Feb 2016

And therefore Trump. If you don't understand what's been going on the last 20-30 years, this film will help. The ignorance, selfishness, and general tom foolery of both the government and economically elite is at the foundation of our economic ills. And this film does a fairly good job of exposing what was going down previous to the ill-fated morning of Sept 15 2008, as well as shortly after. It reminds one of such films as Margin Call. Of course, such a recent catastrophic event is good cause for studied subject matter.

This is certainly not a film that would be for mass consumption, thus HBO. That being said, it has a solid cast with Hurt, Woods and Giamatti at the helm. One reason why this is an issue is because of the jargon; another is that an understanding of the cause for the crash is pretty much a prerequisite to understand the half of what transpires in various conversations. There's a lot of terms being thrown around like "puts," "leverage," "securities," "toxic debt" and the sort. I'm no investor of great means and experience, an understanding of investments, markets and such, but I have a fair grasps of terms and issues; nevertheless, with the speed at which jargon is being thrown around in the film, it would be easy for a novice to get lost.

So if this is your thing, and you know something about investing and markets, the money system, economics and such, this is a film for you.. Otherwise, most would be pretty lost and not gain much from all that transpires. But the one thing you will get, or at least should, is how our government and financial elite were equally self-serving and complicate in the near cataclysmic disaster of 2008, and because of such, damn near brought the world-wide financial system to a halt and possibly the end of civilization as we know it. Thus Trump. Yes, big stuff indeed.