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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 Chicago Passes to ‘Freakonomics’ From ‘Super Size Me’ Makers
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Here is the plot description for “Freakonomics”:
Produced by Green Film Company and distributed by Magnolia Pictures, “Freakonomics” examines human behavior with provocative and often hilarious case studies brought to life by a dream team of Academy Award- and Sundance Film Festival-winning directors. Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (“Jesus Camp”) balance levity and candor with their eye-opening profile of underachieving kids incentivized to learn with cold hard cash.
Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”) delivers a visually arresting look at the crumbling facade of sumo wrestling. Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) offers up a buoyant and revealing angle on the repercussions of baby names.
Finally, Eugene Jarecki (“Why We Fight”) investigates an unsettling theory to explain why crime rates dramatically dropped in the early 1990s. Seth Gordon (“The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters”) weaves the segments together with brisk interludes and provides context and commentary from authors Dubner and Levitt.
The movie trailer for “Freakonomics” can be viewed now below.
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Pay-What-You-Want Screening
If you don’t win these passes, “Freakonomics” is holding a special “pay-what-you-want screening” on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at Landmark Century Centre Cinema at 2828 N. Clark St. in Chicago. These screenings are also taking place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cambridge, Denver, New York City, Dallas, Seattle, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
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By ADAM FENDELMAN |
education is power/ignorance is bliss
It depends on who has the education. most of society is lazy and even if you give them the education, they won’t take action against anything. Yeah, ignorance is bliss (someone google how much fecal matter or insects we ingest yearly, you won’t want to breathe/eat for a while).
Educated
People deserve to know the truth.
educated!
Never hurts to know too much! Knowing too little, now that’s painful.
Educated or Ignorant
Educated.
EDUCATION IS KEY TO CHANGE
EDUCATION IS KEY TO CHANGE AND CHANGE IS ESSENTIAL……SO THERE YOU HAVE IT.
TRUTH
Old Russian proverb suggests that “Better a bitter truth than a sweet lie.”
I tend to agree…
Freakonomics
Any knowledge we can all gain to empower others is a good thing. Making changes to improve lives can only make economic condtions better.
Freakonomics
Of course we should be educated. It is better to be informed than to be ignorant!
Ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is bliss.
" What To Know "
There was a scene from the movie A Few Good Men, where Tom’s character is cross examing Jack’s character, and says I want the truth, and Jack’s character replies…….” You can’t handle the truth ” And while I would like to know, most of america could’nt handle truth, nor would they believe it !!!