This months' screenings at ICA, London, include Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, the documentary on famous Democratic New York Governor who fought corruption among investemnt banking circles of Wall Street, and has been labeled its "fallen angel" and "Luv Guv", after a sex scandal attributed to him has been revealed in 2008, months before the financial crises. The day the news leaked Wall Street brokers opened the champagne bottles and celebrated.
The film investigates why for Eliot Spenzer prosecuting the financial giants involved the impossibility of staying intact himself; why there is a need for the politicians to be portrayed as decent men; to which extent it can be disputed; and what are the absolute values that (at least in American political arena) are not to be challenged? Why is Wall Street Family indisputable and bigger than any other family the US?
Match point.
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