The characters bet against the housing market and they just keep talking and finding out several layers that does reveal more intricacies of the fraud that's going on here, but it definitely does take a long-ass time to get there. Or banker talk, whatever the term is, without really so much in the way of character development.

But, really, my biggest problem with the film, for the most part, is the fact that there's a lot of tech-talk. Though I am certain that there's moments where the film did take liberties and they didn't point it out. It's not necessarily winking, insufferable breaking of the fourth wall, it's certainly more informative. The film has some clever moments like that. And there are times that the film takes liberties with the truth, but in those cases, the character breaks the fourth wall and acknowledges that that certain event didn't happen that way.

And I realize the movie had to be this way in order to maintain as close to the real-life events as possible. Though, if I'm being honest, I think this film will be slightly more difficult to follow if you're not paying attention than Inside Job. This movie is very much like Inside Job, perhaps a slightly worse example of that, in that it takes a very complex subject and tries to make it so that even the least knowledgeable person about this subject can at least get some sort of understanding as to what happened and how it happened.

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