A very well photographed tour of the places and people that the 2008 financial collapse touched. Which is pretty much everyone and everywhere.
What the documentary does well is explain the legal, business and regulatory triangle that was seen to be broken by anybody who actually looked. The road to disaster is well examined.
Getting interviews with people you are going to slag off is not easy; most of the guilty interviewees are either still in denial, not used to being questioned or consider the whole thing academic. Mostly they hang themselves.
Some of the angles are less fruitful. That the bankers snorted cocaine and used prostitutes does not imply they were loose on financial regulation.
One aspect that marks this as the real deal is that it does not push the idea that bankers were naturally bad, rather that they were happy to manipulate a system full of people who did not understand Credit Default Swaps.
An added extra looks at the role of academics; many of whom put their name to a system that eventually collapsed.
What the documentary does well is explain the legal, business and regulatory triangle that was seen to be broken by anybody who actually looked. The road to disaster is well examined.
Getting interviews with people you are going to slag off is not easy; most of the guilty interviewees are either still in denial, not used to being questioned or consider the whole thing academic. Mostly they hang themselves.
Some of the angles are less fruitful. That the bankers snorted cocaine and used prostitutes does not imply they were loose on financial regulation.
One aspect that marks this as the real deal is that it does not push the idea that bankers were naturally bad, rather that they were happy to manipulate a system full of people who did not understand Credit Default Swaps.
An added extra looks at the role of academics; many of whom put their name to a system that eventually collapsed.