“Too Big To Fail”
Review as additional assignment Spring 2017
Too big to fail: Assignment Due
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v221685298RyH4XC5
(or, on your own)
1. Please perform necessary secondary research on the topic too big to fail ( in commercial banking). Should be more than sufficient material in the public domain.
2. Now review the movie “TOO BIG TO FAIL” (William Hurt, Paul Giamatti etc.). Please do the following:
A. What was the source of the doctrine? Is this a policy of the Federal Reserve? Of the US Treasury? Of Whom? Is this an explicit policy?
B. In view of the doctrine/policy/practice (?), critically review the main theme of the movie.
C. What is (are) the principal message(s) of the movie?
D. Critically review the message(s); agree/disagree/take it or leave it?
E. Is there anything in the movie that stands out against the background of “Too Big to Fail”?
F. Now, as a movie, not as above, what did you think about it? Which character(s)/event (s) in real life was/were depicted realistically and well? Did the actors/director do a decent job?