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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Alex Gibney |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2005 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Magnolia |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Situations, Biography, Biting, Boardroom Jungle, Brief Nudity, Business, Color, Cons and Scams, Culture & Society, Disturbing, Documentary, Earnest, English, Finance & Investing, Forceful, Law & Crime, Movie, Profanity, Rise To Power, Rise and Fall Stories |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D10001D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 876964000017 |
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Customer Reviews of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Entertaining, not thorough & informative It was too dramatized, I thought. Also I didn't like the stripper scene because it was too long and too much nudity for my taste... gross. You lose concentration from what they're talking about. They could have just narrated the story about the strippers, why show so much nudity in a corporate scandal documentary??? <
>Better off reading the book called "Conspiracy of Fools"... very good reading material and informative, not too dramatic like this "documentary" <
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Infotainment...More Manipulation than Revelation
I saw a portion of the edited version on PBS (not having read the book) and purchased the film based on that exposure. However, my copy of the film is now for sale (I do intend to read the book). Let me explain why.
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>In short, this uncut version of this film is tacky and agenda-driven. It made me increasingly uncomfortable to be drawn along from the re-enactment of a suicide behind the opening credits, to the fade-in close-up of "Jesus Saves" on a church near the Enron building (as though this juxtaposition stated something vital), to the truly disturbing visuals of Lou Pai's diversions (gratuitous nudity in a supposedly serious discussion of financial malfeasance is pointless - is Pai's sin of lust either unique or at the very heart of Enron's problems?). Even the interviews were unsettling, especially those of Bethany McLean and Amanda Martin. It seems odd to use "glamour" treatments of interview subjects in a serious documentary. The agenda, mentioned in other reviews, is more than political; it is holier-than-thou, seemingly designed to show that business cannot be trusted, but government (with the Bushes singled out for negative scrutiny out of the hundreds of politicos that Enron courted and mislead) can. What happened at Enron can teach us much, but not the things the filmmakers appear to offer as lessons.
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>The story of Enron is truly one of the Shakesperian tragedies of our day; it contained all the elements that serve as a poignant warning to each of us and to our material-minded culture. This story could have been great - both cinematically and as a trenchant real-life morality play. As it stands, this infotainment is more heat than light, more manipulation than revelation.
Ugly Americans
An excellent saga of smart guys with an ethics deficit. I use this DVD in my economics class to illustrate how our "free market system" is not as free as some think.