Inside Job

The poster line of ‘Inside Job’ says….it took 20 trillion dollars to make this movie.Any idea how many zeros that figure has? 20 trillion is 2 followed by 13 zeros.That was the amount of money lost because of the global financial crash of 2008 .

Inside Job coming from Academy Award nominated film-maker, Charles Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon,is the first film to expose the 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.

The Wall Street investment bankers literary took to the Oliver Stone’s film ‘ Wall Street ’ (1987) famous quote-Greed ,for the lack of a better word is good. Good for them ..not for the rest of the world. But that has been the attitude of investment bankers- screw the world,we are too big to fail and too important to be caught and too precious to not be rescued.

If you are not angry after watching Inside Job you were not paying attention. Watch Inside Job to know the reason behind the recession.

A recession that still has its effects –it is the reason why Barack Obama has a huge task ahead of him just to get re- elected for a second term, the reason why China had a single growth year after a decade of double digit growth, why Abu Dhabi had to bail out Dubai from its real bubble trouble ,why poor souls like me are struggling to find a better job, why international students are being beaten up by jobless locals in Australia.

Because as Thomas Friedman said,'the world is flat and it is shrinking’. An earthquake in New Zealand can have global impacts and so can a volcano from Iceland. So think about the impact of a global financial market that was unregulated and manipulated by investment bankers who pocketed salaries and bonuses equal to African Nations GDP in a couple of years!

Watch the trailer here.

How much is enough is never a thought that crossed their consciousness and the US didn’t do anything to curb the tsunami. The bankers lied and yet have walked away unscathed with the fattest of severance cheques. The Clinton Administration and the following Bush Administration both are responsible for allowing this ‘ponzi’ scheme to perpetuate under their nose inspite of repeated flagging and warning from concerned economists.

Take 2 hours off your busy schedule to watch it ...and if recession has taken away your job, watch it at your own convenience.

30 Rock season 4 overview

This season on 30 Rock ,I found that there is less and less of TGS and more of Liz’s (Tina Fey)and Jack’s(Alec Baldwin) problems .It was nice when they had to be dealt with simultaneously in the madhouse that is the NBC studio . But now we are seeing less of the studio and more of random plots.

The new addition to the cast has not exactly been a very good decision compounded by the fact that Jenna Maroney is going nowhere and Tracy Jordan has just not been the same. Infact the demented star that Tracy is,he seems bloated and those psycho weird punch lines and histrionics haven’t had the same impact as earlier.

The jokes and one-liners just don’t stack up that well compared to earlier seasons.

The season had infact started off quite well with the season opener smartly titled ‘season 4’ and had set the premise, but somehow it lost steam after 4-5 episodes and it seemed flat to me for a quite a number of episodes .However , 30 Rock has bounced back and shut shop with decent half a dozen bunch of episodes .The finale ‘I do do ’ written by Tina Fey herself was quirky and fun .

30 Rock almost always has had a healthy influx of celeb A-listers making appearances during the course of a season . This time, Julianne Moore has got half a season long arc . I loved Elizabeth Banks’ news anchor role- Avery Jessup ..fantastic skin she has .I have liked her ever since her coquettish bank teller role scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Catch me if you can’ .

Of the ones this season, me thinks Matt Damon’s was the shortest and best but it's likely that he won’t return for one too many episodes next winter ..I mean come on, he is Matt Damon !

Though reasonably okay, this season somehow didn’t seem that crisp. And it would be fair to say it has been a bit underwhelming if not disappointing. However they have been renewed for another season and that would be surely be better. And how about a track where Liz Lemon has a steady boyfriend balancing her eccentricities?Wouldn’t that be fun?

Just recently,during her promotion of her movie ‘Date Night’, Tina Fey said that“ its because NBC is so deep in trouble that 30 Rock is on air ”

...now that’s not true ,it’s as good a single camera sitcom as they come and the show has some gas left in the tank for newer episodes. It has been held together by the ever terrific Alec Baldwin playing NBC boss, but there have been rumours that he won’t stay beyond next year ..

Sort that and Season 5 out NBC and Tina Fey..Please