Review: This documentary is based on the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Five different documentary filmmakers are all making short segments about different ways of seeing the truth, or finding it. Amongst others we get to hear about corruption inside sumo wrestling, Morgan Spurlock looks at how the names we are given at birth affects our lifes and one segment is dealing with an experiment in the Chicago public school system to offer cash incentives to students to improve their grades. The movie is entertaining, in a light-weighted kind of way. Like how one reviewer described it "intellectual snack food". What I think is good about Freakonomics though is that it makes us think and question the facts we are given in life. And often, most people need to hear about it in an entertaining, Michael Moore kind of way.
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