On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:28 AM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> I think this movie was mentioned briefly on this list.
>
> It's a documentary about the economic meltdown/hijaking. It's crystalline
> in explaining what happened and in describing the basic criminality of the
> leading players (govt included). My favorite part was the part where he
> shows how the academic economists have been completely corrupted by finance.
> This involved having a lot of ivy league snots denying that being paid large
> amounts of money by investment banks had any relations to their evaluation
> of the soundness of policies of same banks. It is also a fabulous study of
> human physiognomy -- that of the jackals among us and of their apologists.
> (Carrol will say it's the system and that there are no evil people. Of
> course. Still, the system leaves its marks, and these marks are fascinating
> for any painter, psychologist, etc. )
>
> I liked it because it didn't have the faux populist outrage of Michael
> Moore's films (which I do mostly like), but was rather sober and
> straightforward. I avoided it for a while because I thought it would be
> depressing, but actually it wasn't. And, after enough people whose opinions
> I trust told me it was a good movie, I just went.
>
> Joanna
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