Enron - the documentary....I urge you to see it and take someone - pay

for their ticket, if necessary). Though everyone who followed the unraveling on DU knows quite a bit, I ended up amazed...I had already forgotten so many details and compacting it was a memory burner.

Thoughts....

Seeing it unfold with images, chronology, words, expressions, contradictions, voices and narrative was amazing - especially the way they showed the books being cooked (all the graphics were excellent), key speeches and lies to the employees of Enron, the deals with the collaborating investment company executives, even the angle of photographic shots of the building, the motorcycle entertainment of the 'boys' and the grandstanding about Bush not knowing Kenny Boy while film of both Bushes with Ken Lay runs in the background.

This documentary will stick in the memory long after the internet words are buried.

I never understood why the people of California let the theft happen to them without much of a stir or so it seemed to me. Were they waiting for details, did they not believe it, didn't the cost affect them too much, did they focus their attention on the governor only?

They did not say much about the pension funds of various teachers unions - that was a glaring ommission for me.

Arthur Anderson was barely mentioned, imo. They require a documentary unique to their thefts alone.

I don't think I heard anything about the use of Kenny's airplane(s) in the Bush campaign.

We should never think that these thieves were unique and that no one will ever do this on this level again.

I wish I had known in advance that the narrator was Peter Coyote. Thank you for doing it, Peter.

See it.

I haven't seen it yet

I haven't heard of it. Is it in movie theaters? Is it a DVD? Is it mass marketed in Book/Movie/Music stores or is it put out by a small independent distributor?

be on the internet.

It's more powerful than F911.
The recordings of the Enron guys (which we already knew about) have a powerful impact.