If you breathe, you are probably aware of the concept of debt in this society. However, for some reason people aren't breathing too heavily about it, despite the fact that it's pretty much tottering on the brink of destruction. Maxed Out is a documentary out to show just how bad it is, from predatory lending habits of big companies to the issue of national debt (How big is the share each household would have to pay to pay off our national debt? $90K as of 2006).
This documentary is highly lauded and I've heard more than a handful of people call it one of the scariest horror movies they've seen... me, I didn't care for it much in terms of the art of documentary. Talking heads are hard to truly relate to, especially since you can see the same sort of faces talking about Civil War battlefields as you can the people in this film trying to intimate just how bad it's getting. This is an important topic and I wish the documentary had spent more time truly mapping out the issue from foundation to labyrinth. Instead, it mainly focused on providing quick examples of the several layers of the problem in an almost mish-mash form. I'd prefer a documentary that makes the issue much more clear.
It's an important message, I was just very disappointed in that it gave me few real information that I didn't already know, and except for the $90K fact above, fairly rarely put the numbers into true perspective. I would have preferred they made a harder point.
--PolarisDiB
This documentary is highly lauded and I've heard more than a handful of people call it one of the scariest horror movies they've seen... me, I didn't care for it much in terms of the art of documentary. Talking heads are hard to truly relate to, especially since you can see the same sort of faces talking about Civil War battlefields as you can the people in this film trying to intimate just how bad it's getting. This is an important topic and I wish the documentary had spent more time truly mapping out the issue from foundation to labyrinth. Instead, it mainly focused on providing quick examples of the several layers of the problem in an almost mish-mash form. I'd prefer a documentary that makes the issue much more clear.
It's an important message, I was just very disappointed in that it gave me few real information that I didn't already know, and except for the $90K fact above, fairly rarely put the numbers into true perspective. I would have preferred they made a harder point.
--PolarisDiB