Bound to be a contender for this year’s best documentary at the Academy Awards, Inside Job is a forensic analysis of the financial crisis centering on events in the US and the wider repercussions for the rest of the world.
Director Charles Ferguson has access to an amazing range of financial insiders from banking institutions to the IMF and follows the roots of the crisis from its beginnings more than a decade ago.
As a savage indictment of greed, corruption and hubris at the highest levels, it’s unparalleled; but its tone is sophisticated, witty and intelligent, making the message even more effective.
It could do for the financial industries what An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change – let’s hope so as, despite its professionalism and craft, this is ultimately a call to arms in the most explicit terms. Fantastic.