It’s also about the corporation’s meteoric rise on account of the ambition-or greed, arrogance and pride, says one interviewee-of its top executives. Narrated by Peter Coyote (a voice you’ll recognize from other documentaries and commercials), “Enron” is now playing in about two dozen cities across the country.īut “Enron” isn’t just about the recent collapse of a company. “Enron,” written and directed by Alex Gibney from a book by Fortune writers Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, spends almost two hours examining the moral and financial bankruptcy of what was America’s seventh largest corporation. From that single image springs the tale of an empire’s scandalous collapse that invites the viewer to entertain those meanings and many more. That single image calls up multiple meanings: faith fronting business terrible irony a real need for salvation. A church spire wrapped in a banner reading “Jesus Saves” peeks into frame. The new documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” opens with a shot of the Enron building in Houston.
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