Let's Make the World Bankrupt

Interested in getting a deeper insight in how the world economy and the global banking systems work, and just how sick it all is? Then seeing "Let's Make Money" is a must.

Synopsis of the film:

"It is as if filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer, known from his commended film 'We Feed the World', had known it all along: he made a documentary about the financial system that is adrift, the degeneration that has affected a liberalised global market without rules. A few months later, the system collapsed. For his film, Wagenhofer travelled all over the world, to provide the spectator with insight from all possible angles into a financial system that is perhaps best described as a global bubble: from the cotton plantations in Burkina Faso to a businessman's car in Singapore's 'emerging market', from the tram in Vienna (nowadays owned by American investors) to the massive hotels and apartment complexes shooting up like mushrooms at the Costa del Sol. The film introduces specialists, scientists and people in the field. It is striking to see how people who for many years have made good money in the world of investment banking, hedge funds and private equity funds, are the first to admit that a system has developed that is not only completely useless, but undermines society in general and developing countries and the 'small man' in the Western world in particular." [Source]

A review posted at IMDB, which I am keen on to consent with:

"Wagenhofer has done it again. This one is better than all of Michael Moore's films combined because it leaves the audience feeling informed, but not manipulated. The prevailing thought after seeing this film is 'what can I do to make it better?' This documentary combines interviews with key people directly involved in strong-arming governments, hiding the owners of trusts whose money has damaged millions of lives, enslaved people in India and Africa and supported laws that allow financial institutions (in London, for example) to operate unregulated in order to maximize profits for a few as they they destroy the lives of many, with outstanding camera work and very clever use of visual and auditory iconography throughout. Just watch it!"



"Money is Debt - Debt is Money - Money is Debt - Debt is Money - Money is Debt - Debt is Money - Money is Debt..."

And the mantra continues to echo in the infinite...