Thursday, January 18, 2007 04:43:29 AM
DVD PICK
Memron
Amazingly, as the folks at CNBC, TheStreet.com and MarketWatch still party like it's 1999 on stock market hype, nobody seems willing to pull the plug on the endless stream of unadulterated corporate BS flooding our media waves.
Apparently, the best way to demonstrate the emperor is clad only in his proverbial birthday suit, as Bill Maher, The Daily Show and Steven Colbert prove with politics, is through satire.
"Memron" is a relatively unheralded film about the lives ruined by the greatest scam artists - as the name suggests,
this is a parody on Enron - of late-20th century.
The game is already up for the lead characters in the film. The CEO is golfing in prison while former employees of the mega-mega company confront a future with no money, no savings, no nothing.
Enron was a tragedy. Yet, one can't help but shake one's head at the incomprehensible chicanery cooked up by Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, and sometimes laugh.
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