Go see the Enron movie now. I'll wait.

I got back from the new indie documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room a coupla hours ago, and I gotta say, it was pretty damn good. One of the best documentaries I've seen in a while by far, though quite a depressing piece. Still, it's nice to see someone is publicizing the whole truth behind everything and the story associated with the scandal is, in effect, a gripping character study. Anybody who walks into the theater will walk out hating the top Enron guys, but that's probably good. I'm still mulling over the depressing statistic said by one electrical worker (or some job that looked like it--hard to tell). At its high point, his 401k was $237,000 and due to Kenneth Lay's greed and corruption, he sold it off for $1200. If there was a pitying smile, it would be here instead of this lame little colon and open parenthetical mark:

:(

But the movie was still great. Go see it now. I saw it at Bethesda Row, and quite enjoyed myself. I had never been to the theater before, and it wasn't too shabby. Much better than UA, erm, excuse me, Regal Bethesda.