I’ve got to say, I’m all lost in this movie. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. I knew it would happen, though – back in high school, when the civics teacher was talking about the subprime mortgage crisis, I was already confused. In fact I was doodling in class then. I did it just because the teacher allowed that. She knew we were more likely to be interested in science rather that complicated economy specific nouns.
However hard to understand, some perspective still can be implemented for the outsiders like me. The main actor, as well as the treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, has been dealing with so much troubles in the crisis. Some seems effective, while some are hopeless. Plus the emergency of time, there wasn’t actually much choices for him to execute. That is to say, he still needed to sort it out, risking the economy, politics, and hundreds and thousands of people’s lives. I can’t really relate what he has gone through, though, but I know that it is critical in every moment.
Too big to fail – now being a concept in economics, describes an incorporation that is too profitable that it is affecting the society in such a massive magnitude that the government needs to offer assistance in order to keep it operating. That is somehow weird for me at first, but it only bothered me for a moment. Some cases, which evidently shows in our daily life, are just like that – we can’t always depend on ourselves and continue our routine, we need others to make lives more effective and efficient. That’s how the society constructs. Now some friends (fine, maybe just classmate who you least talk to) is falling, and we just can’t but do them some favor. It applies to corporations, only in a complicated and huge way, which also causes more and more splashes after the decisions are made.
After all, we’re connected, no matter in a lovely or an evil way. We just somehow need others. We, at some degree, need others to exist.
Too Old In The Generation 