This week we were asked to choose a financial movie of our choice and from the list I chose The Company Men, which is set in the context of America post- financial collapse in 2008. Of course, the movie stood out to me because Ben Affleck plays the lead character (and who didn’t fancy Ben Affleck before the terrible back tattoos). So, the movie begins with thousands of workers being ‘laid off’ and even those who survive till the end of the day with a job intact are worried if they’re next to go. It was interesting to see how the financial collapse affected businesses in the US, although I don’t remember much from this time as I was only just starting secondary school, my experience of the financial crash would mainly be from watching English documentaries rather than American movies on the subject. One of the characters, Gene, argues against the CEO Salinger’s actions with calls to innovate rather than just firing people. It seems as though the CEO really doesn’t hav...