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George Clooney's new movie about Edward R. Murrow's devastating attacks on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Good Night, and Good Luck, gets everything right but the truth.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
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November 07, 2005 |
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George Clooney's new movie about Edward R. Murrow's devastating attacks on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Good Night, and Good Luck, gets everything right but the truth. He has the chain-smoking, the unconscious sexism, the stiffly gelled hair of the time all perfectly rendered--right down to filming it all in atmospheric black-and-white. Yet, for the purpose of rendering Murrow as a lone hero who slew the Republican dragon, Clooney omits the entire Cold War (and the hot one in Korea). What might have been a nuanced historical drama turns into a medieval morality play with you-know-who as Lucifer and the media--but of course!--reprising their traditional role as savior. Watching Good Night, one might be ...
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