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2010 · business · investigation · oscar · finance

Inside Job

Directed by Charles Ferguson1h 49m2010
ElsewhereIMDb8.282kRT98%Metacritic88TMDB7.71k
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • cold
  • twisty
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Sombre, kinetic, measured business / investigation, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Our read · Inside Job (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded business · investigation · oscar entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a furious lucid autopsy of how the two thousand eight crash actually happened.

ends unsettlingit stays with youmeditativegrips by minute 8attention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if dense finance talk will put you to sleep after ten o'clock.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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