This film does not develop fast. A lot of time is apparently wasted as we are shown faceless cityscapes, or (presumably) bank building interiors, or just a PC screen where somebody (the film director?) types the questions. For a documentary, the amount of “documentary” material is rather modest. Some of the interviews are actually reconstructions played by actors, and Ms Losmann makes no secret of it: there were the “experts” who just refused to be filmed. Paradoxically, or maybe not, this works better for me. Nothing is more convincing than honesty, and the “wasted” time is given to the viewer to think over the deceptively simple question: How is money generated? That money that makes the world go round. When you take a loan, does this money, together with your debt, just appear from vacuum, like a particle-antiparticle pair? Will the world stop going round when everybody pays off their debts?
It is one of these films that probably won’t make it to the TV; or, in case they do, I’d ignore; or fall asleep watching. So I’m grateful to Filmoteca Canaria for an opportunity to see it on the big screen. The theatre was full — as in “new normal” full, that is, one-third full. The audience paid attention, and there was a round of applause when it finished.
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