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Getting ready for our Oscar party so I will just say a few words about The International. (Sorry for this huge poster but it was either this or a postage stamp!)<\/em><\/p>\n It may be improbable: an international bank becomes an arms broker, but is really buying up the debt of small countries involved in armed conflicts; plus they are buying and selling the same arms systems to their really big \u201caccounts\u201d.<\/p>\n An Interpol agent, Salinger, played by Clive Owen, is a desk jockey analyst who finally cannot take it anymore when various agencies stonewall him and refuse to investigate the bank.<\/p>\n The plot is as circular as the stairway in New York\u2019s Guggenheim museum where an really over-long shoot out takes place. But that\u2019s ok if you don\u2019t mind shoot outs.<\/p>\n The ending is the most ironic (and cyncical) conclusion to a film I have ever seen. But it is a really intersting movie that makes you want to ask questions about \u2026 where all the money comes and where it goes.<\/p>\n -SPOLIER ALERT-<\/p>\n The ending: Why go through all the legal \u2013 and illegal hoops \u2013 to get the bad guys when all you had to do was call the mafia? It would have saved so much time.<\/p>\n The plot may be fiction, but I think the part about an international bank (think China rather than a financial\u00a0institution in a small European country)becoming rich by buying up debt is a pretty strong\u00a0point to make. After all, this is how China \u201cowns\u201d us, right?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getting ready for our Oscar party so I will just say a few words about The International. (Sorry for this huge poster but it was either this or a postage stamp!) It may be improbable: an international bank becomes an arms broker, but is really buying up the debt of small countries involved in armed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1594,1595],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-reviews","tag-the-international-and-economics","tag-the-international-movie"],"yoast_head":"\n