Inside Job

Toward the end of Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, about global warming, he sounded fairly hopeful and optimistic as he outlined some things that could be done, in his mind, fairly easily to help that situation. Inside Job, about the recent and still ongoing worldwide economic crisis, isn't like that. So if you don't want to be even more discouraged and depressed than you may already be about unemployment, Wall Street, bankers, investment bankers, mortgage brokers, etc., don't go see this film. However, it's an excellently made documentary, describing and explaining many familiar and not so familiar things about how we got here and where we are now, in a clear and concise manner. And although it has many "talking heads", it's also visually interesting in many parts. Those talking heads, by the way, utter some truly jaw-dropping statements reminiscent of the tobacco industry executives swearing under oath that nicotine isn't addictive. Many of the key players, however, not surprisingly didn't agree to be interviewed for the film. I won't spell out any more specifics, except to say that if this film is accurate, it looks like we haven't gone through the last worldwide crisis that could cause a complete economic meltdown.