If someone ever makes a documentary on my life, I want it to be the people behind The Queen of Versailles. Anyone that can make me feel empathy for the subjects of this documentary has got a fair amount of talent. The documentary begins following the comically ostentatious lifestyle of timeshare real estate moguls as they live out the worst nouveau riche stereotypes and build the largest home in America.

Halfway through filming the documentary, though, the stock market crashed and it becomes something much different. The family vacillates between being totally oblivious to the extent of their privilege and occasional moments of brutal self-awareness, making it impossible to completely write them off as evil one-percenters, even as they eat caviar by the $2000 tub-full. I recommend the documentary both as an intellectual explanation for the housing bubble and crisis, as well as a character study of people that most of us despise--and with good reason--but who are still more complicated than we give them credit.