Analysis Of Enron

Enron is considered to be one of the biggest audit failures of it’s time but who is really responsible for the downfall of this company? While watching the play and the documentary I felt like I was getting two different stories from two different perspectives. The main differences I noticed between the play and the documentary was how Jeffrey Skilling was portrayed and how effective the information was presented. Overall, I believe that I understood of the story of Enron more once I left the play rather than when I finished watching the documentary. The way the story was told is a very important element to how the audience will understand and react to the scandals of Enron. While I was watching the play, I was on Jeff’s side from the start. …show more content…
The play did a really good job at making a serious topic entertaining and using the full time to advance the plot. For example the scene after Jeff got promoted, all the workers were together in the office working and Andy walked in asking one of them to start working on something else and they all took him as a joke. At first I thought this scene was a little pointless but afterwards I realized how important it was towards the characterization of Andy and showed how he was seen by his peers. After Jeff took a chance on Andy by promoting him to the CFO he became an entirely different person and kinda joined Jeff on this journey to the end of Enron. I personally felt like this play did a really good job at giving you an idea of the characters intentions but didn’t really give anyone the title of the “bad guys” in which the documentary definitely did. The way the documentary told you this story was basically just stating the facts, you didn't really get a look into the peoples lives who were involved. The story was all about how Jeff was in a hurry to make money and demanding profits now rather than in the long run which was said to be where he went wrong. The way information was presented made it seem like …show more content…
The way they portrayed the characters and the gradual progress towards the end of the company was a lot more effective to explain what really happened. Jeffrey Skilling was a person driven by success and someone who let work take over their life. He worked his way to the top, had a hand in ending other peoples careers to ensure his spot on top, unintentionally ignored his life as a father and ruined a lot of people’s lives. Although with all those failures the play made you feel for him and see him as just another person who made a mistake. Even if he was the master mind behind it all, you really see him as a father, friend and success before the truth comes out and the company comes to it’s