The State Of The World You Live In

Rating: 9/10 (24 February 2016)

During the early 2000's i saw several documentaries explaining deep dark secrets about the world economy. I started to get curious so i read a lot of articles about it too. Then i started to ask friends of mine, that works in banking, some simple, but deep questions that actually are pretty straight forward.
Guess what, they could not answer how these simple things i asked about, worked.
It was clear that the world economy was so complex at this point, few people knew how it was molded together. It was a web of transactions and deals and papers and percentages in such great numbers, it seemed almost everyone just hoped it would stay together forever, and not collapse on their watch.
Well, it did.
But were so many people really this blind?. As we know after the collapse of 2008 the top bankers all were saved from prosecution. What they got instead, was a huge money bailout, payed by ordinary tax payers. For these bankers to go free, people in the millions lost their homes, their pensions, all their savings, their jobs.
And on top of that, smaller banks went bankrupt in large numbers, only to be bought by larger banks like Morgan Chase.
It's called: Too big to fail.
This is corruption at the top level, and nothing has changed. The rich just got richer and the poor got poorer. And this is how it's going to continue to be, nothing will stop it. As long as governments has to loan money from the banks, the banks got the governments by their nuts.
This film shows the story of a few people that saw this crisis coming, and bet on it. Which would give them enormous profits if they were right. Which they were. Are these people to blame for what happened? Not really no. If they had gone to the media and told everyone about this, no one had believed them anyways. The corruption runs so deep, and people are so afraid to lose their money, that they would not believe anyone who speaks against a huge majority, that are telling them, their money is safe.
So who is to blame?. Ourselves. We that elect our leaders, we sit by and watch corruption right in front of our eyes, but feel good when we make a vote. But did we do any research before we made our vote? What exactly is the reasons we vote? What is our motives?
I highly recommend the documentary called "inside Job" from 2010. A documentary about this crisis, narrated by Matt Damon. It is a brilliant documentary you all should see, and it is a good time to look at that now if you missed it.
So in 2006, after i had seen all these documentaries, i concluded for myself that a major economic crash was imminent. I did not know anything about Cdo's and such, but i knew that this world is filled with corrupt people who want to make more money, and the earth resources are only going down. There is at some point only one way the bankers can get richer, and that is if a lot of others have to become poorer.
This is the only way, whatever the leading banks and bankers of the world want to call it.
This film tells the story smart, fast and funny. Filled to the brink with clever dialogue, with top acting from everyone. And a razor sharp script and solid direction.
A movie everyone should see.
9/10 - Very Good