Watching the movie "Freakonomics", i didn't reallyknow what to expect out of the film. After watching it, I found it interesting that topics that seem irrelevant to the topic at hand actually connect to it altogether.
I really enjoyed the part of the movie where the film focused on the art of sumo wrestling. First off, I learned some new things in sumo itself. For example, I never knew that the referee's attire was religiously symbolic to the sumo wrestlers so that they would not cheat or do anything to disgrace the sport. This connects to the agenda of trying to find the truth of social practices because with these kind of rituals taking place daily in sumo matches, one would wonder if that would complelty stop the possibility of cheating or fixed matches.
Other examples that connected to finding the truth was offering to pay high school kids if they were able to get their grades up. As good a deal as this would seem to be, the test subjects still weren't able to maintain their side of the deal and still being lazy.
This movie really just opened my eyes to alot of topics that all connect to finding out the truth about everything. How do we know what is right or what is wrong? Is there really such thing as a cause and effect? We'll never really know, but its good to be able to think and discuss it.
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