Meltdown Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Personal Reflection

The movie was a real eye opener for me. Until I saw it, I never really understood what happened to cause the 2008 meltdown. I never understood what the big deal was about home mortgages. All I knew then was that the U.S. and the world were in a financial crisis.

The movie made me realize how complex and complicated it all was. It was quite surprising for me to learn that the fate of the American economy – probably even that of the world – lay in the hands of a few powerful men. I was especially struck by what Timothy Geithner told ...

The Great Depression was a severe global economic meltdown that happened in the decade that preceded the Second World War. The time of the recession differed from country to country, but it was from 1930 till late 1930s and mid 1940s in some countries. The second film in the Great Depression Series by PBS, The Road to Rock Bottom, critically looks at the problems that faced farmers in United States before and during the Great Depression. The film examines the predicament of farmers, agricultural workers and sharecroppers. The focus is on the effects of harsh environmental factors such as drought ...

This film dramatized the American economic collapse of 2008. The collapse, and the subsequent "government bailout", was precipitated by a number of factors. As pointed out in the actual drama of "Too Big to Fail", the combination of unregulated banking practices and lax requirements for consumer credit created an economic meltdown that had worldwide repercussions.
During the short period that led up to the so-called TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), colossal mortgage bankers were in the practice of underwriting mortgages for both commercial and residential properties, such as houses, condos, and retail space. Mortgage insurance companies, like the behemoth ...

Abstract

The movie, Inside Job, Narrated by Matt Damon won 2011 academy award as the best documentary of 2010. This movie is an expose of the causes of the global financial meltdown and economic crisis in 2008, leading to loss of trillion of dollars and thousands of jobs. This paper will analyse the movie with a view of finding out the goal of the filmmaker and successes of the movie. It will also make a reaction towards the movie and suggest some recommendations that would deter the recurrence of such a crisis.

Inside Job Analysis

Inside job is a brisk fast paced financial documentary whose title suggests a ...

Jane Doe

Autism is a disease that begins to show signs in early childhood and continues throughout the individual’s life. There are wide arrays of signs, symptoms, and behaviors that can be seen among those who are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which can make proper diagnosis challenging at times. To better understand the complex nature of ASD, several videos are observed and correlated with the diagnosis criteria from the American Psychological Association’s DSM-V. The following six videos each display a variety of autistic individuals of various ages that show the different symptoms common to ASD.

Video 1: Two Year Old Boy

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Movie Review: The Warning

Brief Summary of the Video
The video that was selected was entitled “The Warning” featured online through Frontline. It presented relevant concerns about how allowing and promoting unregulated market forces would inevitably result to a devastating financial meltdown. Featured in more than 54 minutes of play time, the video’s main parts included the golden era when Alan Greenspan, known as the rock star, ruled the economy ; how Brooksley Born, a brilliant lawyer, then the head of the CFTC, tried to warn the American public through Congress, of the need to regulate the over the counter derivatives market; and how ...

- What is the title of the film, what (brief summary) is it about (subject, topic)?
The film is entitled Inside Job. A documentary film made in 2010, Inside Job garnered praise and recognition for its creative, accurate, and enlightening narrative of the 2008 economic crisis. The film traces the roots of the problem through an introductory example of Iceland, whose attempts to expand the economy through deregulation policies backfired – particularly on the financial sector. It is later explained that Iceland was not the only country who tried to use deregulation as a tactic and failed. The story ...

I think that the film provides a well-detailed and comprehensive analysis of the causes of the global financial crisis. Ferguson says that at a figure of $20 trillion, the financial crisis almost lead to another great depression akin to the 1929 depression. There is a global connection to the crisis that spans geography. The crisis extends from the United States, China, France, Singapore, Iceland and England. Ferguson uses research from politicians, journalists, scholars and financial insiders to present a mind-blowing assessment of the financial crisis. Ferguson’s documentary the Inside Job is an accurate depiction of the causes of the financial meltdown that ...