Film Analysis Of Inside Job

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The film Inside Job directed by Charles Ferguson, grandstands the bare essential of how Wall Street cheated the American white-collar class and working poor out of billions of dollars before making an already difficult situation even worse and utilizing citizen dollars to safeguard themselves out. Inside Job includes hard-hitting interviews with a portion of the nation's most persuasive monetary figures and lawmakers to get to the base of the covetousness. Rather than truly explaining definitions or tossing in VIP cameos to guarantee you're focusing like The Big Short does, Inside Job treats you like the grown-up you are and educates you regarding what went ahead in secret on Wall Street before Ben Bernanke, and the Federal Reserve acted the …show more content…

Inside Job features hard-hitting interviews with some of the country’s most influential economic figures and politicians in hopes to get to the bottom of the greed. Instead of spelling out definitions or putting in celebrity cameos to ensure the audience is paying attention like The Big Short does. In relation to the course, the process of the market economy, the big banks making money and the events leading to the financial crisis, all can be described by capitalism. The term capitalism is defined as “an economic system in which trade, industry, and the means of production are controlled by private owners with the goal of making profits in a market economy” (Langille, 2017). The pros of capitalism are that it creates jobs, wealth, productive and innovation. The cons are that it fosters inequality, prone to crisis and creates alienation and conflict. In both films, the greediness of capitalism caused a financial crisis in America, low-class people and immigrants were blamed for failure of the housing market, many of the wall street executives were never tried for their crimes or bailed themselves out and it left millions of people unemployed and homeless. The banks, investors and executives turned their back on society to serve their own interest by making more profits by manipulating citizens in investing in mortgages that were said to be great, when they weren’t. In both films, the working conditions for those who had to make money during the crisis were not very good. Also, those who worked on Wall Street worked in high-intense and stressful environments causing health concerns like major headaches to many workers when they realized what they did made them lose so much money and their jobs. As key player for capitalism is globalization, the global

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