Recounting the Cri$i$, Part 4: The Social Network, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (+ films of 2010)

In Part 4 of this season on movies and The Great Recession, Tori and Dávid explore the initial takes that attempted to explain the cause of the crisis through film.

Topics and films mentioned:

• The Big Short (Book)
• The Inside Job, 2010, directed by Charles Ferguson
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2010, directed by Oliver Stone
• David Byrne
• Platoon, Natural Born Killers, Wall Street (Films of Oliver Stone)
• Neoliberalism, neoclassical economics, & crisis theory
• Moral hazard
• The Social Network, 2010, directed by David Fincher
• Pirates of the Silicon Valley, 1999, directed by Martyn Burke
• Wikipedia of The Social Network - Claim that it inspired people
• The Town, 2010, directed by Ben Affleck
• YouTube: Male Weepies by Broey Deschanel
• Wall Street review by Peter Bradshaw
• True Grit, 2010, directed by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen