These days, the subject matter that has the equivalent effect is high finance.
Money, and the corruption of money, is the new, sophisticated content porn of the indie world.
Call it12 Sleazy Men(and one woman hello, Demi Moore).

What he learns is that the companys leverage is veering out of orbit.
The bundling and swapping of mortgages with no value has caught up with it.
And what a director of actors!
Its a drama of big money that you watch with a tingle of toxic fascination.
The movie, though, is far more idiosyncratic than that.
The footage gets beyond those images to reveal the more humanistic yearnings of the key players.