Inside Job (film)

• Matt Damon ( narrator in engl. Original )

Inside Job is a documentary directed by Charles H. Ferguson on the global financial crisis from 2007. The film was produced by Sony and shown in May 2010 at the film festival in Cannes. He received the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary.

Content

The film begins with his portrayal in Iceland, whose economy was hit particularly hard by the crisis. Picturesque landscapes, short excerpts from television programs and in-depth interviews alternate. A spokesman (Matt Damon), who himself does not appear in the image, connecting all this together, by retelling the events.

The approach of the film is already being prepared by its title: Inside job in English is an informal term for a crime to the detriment of a company that is committed by its own employees, or an offense by an insider. Therefore, the documentary filmmaker interviewed bankers, politicians and professors of economics for the causes of the financial crisis and comes to the conclusion that the reason for the crisis in the financial liberalization lie. The development of the subprime market and the history of the crisis, its history, its international impact on China as an example, the responses to them, and the subsequent history are described by the participants in the interviews and comments. Emphasis is on the presentation of corruption in the American justice and in science. The reason for this lies in the human interdependence of banks, investment banks, rating agencies, insurance companies, industry, politics and economics at the great universities in the United States. Some key players in the crisis, which had once used in reports for the deregulation of the financial markets have benefited personally as employees in companies from the development to a considerable extent, and they have in American politics, particularly in the administration of George W. Bush, supported.

Finally, pointing to Ferguson that, partly again the same people are responsible for the supervision of financial markets under President Barack Obama, who had been elected to move away from the Bush administration, which had triggered his research after the crisis. So while at the forefront of policy, a change had taken place, otherwise there was continuity: "It's a Wall Street Government " ( "It's a Wall Street government" ) says the American civil rights activist Robert Gnaizda towards the end of the film. The then director of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss- Kahn said in the film: "The financial industry had gotten scared 2008. Now they want to their old rules of the game back. "

Ferguson points out that the United States is the country with the largest spread in income and wealth in the Western economies were and that this imbalance was further exacerbated by the financial crisis. In his speech accepting the Oscars Ferguson pointed first to the fact that none of the culprits have been convicted of causing the financial crisis. This was a mistake.

Awards

Inside Job 2011 was awarded the Oscar for best documentary. He also received in the same year the corresponding prices of the Writers Guild of America Awards, 2010 Directors Guild of America Awards. The film was nominated for the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, and for the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards.

At the International Film Festival of Cannes 2010 Inside Job was presented.

Reviews

Thomas Assheuer refers in his criticism at the time primarily to the fact that the financial industry " as much money as never before in the PR work " investing. In any congressman now come five lobbyists, and he ends with a bitter reference to the campaign slogan of Barack Obama: Yes, we can.

The New York magazine criticized the film as " aggressive ( and, yes, even biased ) " and interprets the fact that the Hollywood star Matt Damon acts as a speaker, as a departure of the film industry by Obama.

In contrast, emphasizes Angelika Slavik in their report of the Oscars in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Ferguson's criticism of the lack of legal processing of the events had " only muted applause " get. " The scene, it was said, would it not indeed destroy them with their donors. "