Review of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) by Darryl K — 12 Jun 2011

Enron: TSGitR is an elaborate portrait of how one of the biggest companies in America went under so quickly, and why it caused the ruckus that it did. Knowing very little about business myself (and wanting to know even less), the film still leaves a few questions unanswered (like how Enron was able to get in to such a powerful position in the first place).

The film however, makes up for this and shows abundantly clear how they fell. Being the perfect example of the problems in economics and society today, Enron's fall is a demonstration of how far from reality modern day life has become.

The invention of money was simply a way you didn't have to carry around all your stuff way back in the ye old stone ages. Instead of hauling around your 12 cows, 3 pigs, 2 carts and 3 chickens, rare metals were used as an 'equivalent.

' 1 cow was was equivalent in rarity to say one of these flatten pieces of metal. It was a brilliant invention to make life easier (cuz really, would you want to be paid in chickens?). 4000 years later society completely revolves around these pounded bits of metal, so much so they make up wildly complex equations, theoretical profits that count as real returns, and other such nonsense and call it economics.

This is exactly what Enron did. And look at what happened to them. Does this make anyone else wonder if we are on the right track with this 'money thing?' Even if you don't agree with my little tangent, you should take a look at this movie.

It'll make you think.