Enron Movie: A DEFINITE MUST-SEE!! GO GO GO!!

[K8-EEE]

Even though we all know the end of the story, I promise you this film will have you on the edge of your seat. By telling it from the perspective of the greed, deceit, tragedy and not just "numbers" you really see the monumental scale of the Enron scandal and of course the BFEE is UP TO THEIR EYEBALLS IN IT...plus they are running our country like Enron was run, down to the endless macho posturing, bullying and total disgregard for budgets, law, empathy, and truth.

You will walk out of the theater wanting to put your fist through the wall, and that is a completely appropriate attitude to have going into 2006. We need to dismantle the Bush Crime machine and all their cronies. We are ALL victims of this Culture Of Thugs!

[hatrack]

1. 100% in agreement!

It's the best documentary I've seen in a long time, and it will piss you off like nobody's business. Brilliant, brilliant movie!

[K8-EEE]

2. Pensions Robbed By Exploiters Of DISASTROUS GOP DEREGULATION!

To see the people who really were just completely robbed and know that most of the exex made it out of there before the crash with zillions of dollars...

it's the same with BushCo. No accountability at the top, none of them knew anything about anything. Same as Abu Graib, get a fall guy and the rest are living the highlife. It's just sick. ESPECIALLY CALIFORNIANS....to hear those Enron traders snicker while we endured the manufactured energy crisis, it's JUST TOO MUCH.

[AP]

3. People should see it, but don't expect it to blow your mind.

Unless you were in a coma the last four years, nothing in this movie is going to surprise you.

Also, the directors make some strange choices for the visuals that are supposed to hit home points in the narrative, but end up being distracting. Like, they talk about how the Enron guys would go on hyper-masculine trips, like dirt-biking in baja. While they explain this, they show X-games type video of dirt bikers who obviously are not Fastow, Lay and co. So? What's the point? Trying to make them seem cooler than they really were?

Also, the most compelling story in the movie is the one about the Portland Gas employees who lost their pensions because Enron needed money and got it by buying their company and raping Californian electricity customers. The directors spend more time trying to make this one Ernon trader seem sympathetic (he didn't want to know the answers to the questions in his head and he hated every minute he was on the job) than they spend trying to make the ripped off line workers seem sympathetic (and that trader probably made more money in a year than the linemen made in an entire career).

Also, you should walk out of that movie pissed off that Arnold is governor of CA, but that point gets a little lost.

So, a good documentary, but not a great documentary, and it probably missed a real opportunity to get people worked up.

[K8-EEE]

6. It Blew MINE....

Reading about the Enron crisis is one things but seeing those company tapes, man oh man oh man. I couldn't sleep all night it was so disturbing. I found the ex-Enron employees who were trying to come to grips with their part in it really poingnant. I do think they made a decision to tell the story of the CULTURE of Enron and the macho dirt-biking posturing was part of it -- like the Faux Cowboy thing of GWB.

The more you think of it the more parallels you draw. It's not BIG BANG style like F-911, it's slow burn..

[AP]

8. I appreciate that.

From my perspective, however, there wasn't a single thing in that documentary I hadn't seen before except for the dirt-biking, and the reason I hadn't seen that before is because it has nothing to do with Enron.

As for the Enron employees coming to grips, I actually found that offensive for the reasons I stated above. I don't really have a ton of sympathy for the guy who had a lot of questions, refused to ask them, felt bad, but made a lot of money. The movie should have done more to make you feel sympathy for ripped of Californians and the line workers who lost their pensions.

I also don't like the psychologica explanation for actions that are rooted in money and politics.

[K8-EEE]

9. I Admire Them For Talking About It So Honestly

I was shocked how YOUNG a lot of these guys were -- I would like to think that if I found myself working somewhere like that 20 years ago, I would not be seduced by any of it but I really don't know.

When I was that age I worked in the TV biz and I admired a lot of people that I now consider slimeballs and backstabbers, but back in the day I wanted to be just like them; I was dazzled by it all.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. What's it called?

[KarenS]

5. The Smartest Guys in the Room,,,,

http://www.enronmovie.com/

I do plan on seeing this one.

[Skittles]

7. thank you for the recommendation, K8

it's playing at the local Angelica but I was awaiting a review from a DUer beofre seeing it. :D

[Eloriel]

10. Needs a bit of a

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