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Movie review: Maxed Out; Death as deficit relief |
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Written by John P. Meyer
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
There are films we attend purely for entertainment, and others we might take in for purposes of moral enrichment; there are even people who enjoy being educated by attending the occasional documentary on a subject that is near and dear to them, or one that is totally outside their realm of experience. And then there are films that simply make us mad. Maxed Out is one of that last variety.
It's funny: when I pulled up Maxed Out on IMDB, the short list of recommended films that appeared at the bottom of the page included Titanic (involving the most famous sinking ship ever) and Deliverance (with its infamous Ned Beatty ass-reaming episode).
I wasn't aware that the IMDB logic engine was so metaphorically astute, but my hat's off to it.
Maxed Out, you see, is subtitled "Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders," and it provides an insider's view into the dark side of consumer credit in contemporary America. Which, from a metaphorical standpoint, can be said to involve both sinking ships and ass-reamings. Lots of them.
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