Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney 2005)
Posted on January 11 at 12.34, 2009 by Eric Mahleb
An incredibly powerful documentary that explores the collapse of Enron.
As with most documentaries that deal with socially relevant issues, the greater theme of human nature and what makes people do the things they do is explored indirectly, through the depiction of a small group of people who thought they could exploit the system to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
Aside from being a very well made documentary, Enron is an intense experience that can only leave one shaking his head in disbelief at the greed, selfishness and lack of empathy that some people are capable of.
It also shows us once again that some corporations can easily get out of control, monstrous money making machines without a heart or a soul, only instructions for making a profit at any cost and without regard for the well-being of society as a whole. A priority for the 21st Century should be to work with the business establisment to ensure that a more socially responsible form of capitalism emerges.
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