本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛5.0 out of 5 stars Decades will not wipe out this catastrophe., May 6, 2005
By Miles D. Moore (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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Alex Gibney's "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," based on the book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, is a riveting, masterful documentary about the most appalling catastrophe in American corporate history: the collapse of Enron, brought about by the ruthlessness, greed and treachery of its top executives. Although Gibney is adept at adding touches of dark humor to the film, the only emotions I felt at the end were sorrow and outrage that Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow were allowed to perpetrate their monstrous fraud for so many years, eventually ruining the lives of 20,000 Enron employees and who knows how many Enron shareholders. (There are also those who have never been called to account, such as the elusive and vindictive Lou Pai, who left Enron before the crash with $250 million in his bank account.) A former Enron executive interviewed for the film compares the Enron disaster to the movie "Body Heat," with Fastow playing William Hurt to Skilling's Kathleen Turner. (I have an even better analogy: the Enron collapse as presented by Gibney is like the movie "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer," with Fastow playing Otis to Skilling's Henry.) As for Ken Lay, as this film presents him, he's more like Gertrude Stein's description of Oakland: There's no THERE there. Gibney presents in horrifying detail not only the hubris and dishonesty of Lay, Skilling, Fastow and their cohorts, but also the blind greed of Merrill Lynch, Arthur Andersen and other corporations that blithely ignored the signs of impending doom in order to have a share of the pickings. The film's real tragedy is that, however satisfying it is to see Lay, Skilling and Fastow led off in handcuffs at the end, we know the damage they wrought, both financial and political, will last for decades after they're gone. I give one example: of course everyone knows that the California energy crisis brought about largely by the rapacity of Enron energy traders was the main reason for the successful recall effort against California Governor Gray Davis. And most people probably realize, though they don't think about it much, that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chief who refused to help Davis was appointed by George W. Bush on the express recommendation of Ken Lay. But what people almost certainly DON'T know--unless they've seen this movie--is that during the crisis Ken Lay called a meeting in Los Angeles of Enron's Caifornia supporters. No minutes from this meeting have ever come to light, but one of the attendees was Arnold Schwarzenegger. You do the math.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net