I saw this movie as part of some CNN financial crisis special. Big Mistake. I don't know if there were cuts, but comercials aside, CNN also added its own talking heads, current updates, and some random video feeds. What can I say? I wish this movie were more widely available, or at least available on a saner network like PBS. I'll probably watch it again when it's available on DVD.
The movie provides a lot of alarming stats, with some background stories. It's educational and all but it's hard for me to feel tangible when numbers quoted are like $3,459,582,392,204,392,482,284.58. Ok, I made that one up. It's probably beating a dead horse talking about BushCo (which the movie is wise to only do so sparingly), or telling us how tax cuts contributed to the problem at this time of recession (although this was made in 2007). Well, we are all screwed, China is going to own us, etc etc. We are assured that it's not a lost cause, but if it weren't for the incomprehensibly large numbers being tossed out, this would have been a really really depressing movie.
