The Greek tragedies and Shakespeare's are well known. If you don't know the genre, you'll be sitting wondering why the characters are doing bad things and shaking your head, even blaming the writers. If you see this as a tragedy, it makes sense. They're supposed to be bad actions and bad choices, the outcomes are meant to be bad. But we can look at their mistakes and see what they should have done. We can learn from others' mistakes. It's not a new genre. Everything working out well isn't that realistic. People do stupid things every day in real life. Some get away with it, some pay the price. But human folly is real. There are plenty of references to real world behaviour here.
Review of Inside Man
