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Good Night, And Good Luck There is a lot of content to offer to the audience in a very short and smartly timed, which can be off putting as it doesn't allow the audience to breathe and let it all sink in. It is accurately infomercial and highly adaptive but if considered as a dramatic act, there isn't much installed art to explore in here. The adaptation is smart and has a gripping screenplay keeping the audience engaged throughout its 90 minutes offering the audience enough homework to work on it which is fortunately worth in here too. George Clooney; the screenwriter and director, has done an excellent work on creating the '50s corporate world and the characters that revolves around it. David Strathairn is convincing in here and is supported well too by an amazing cast like George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr. and Jeff Daniels. It is short on technical aspects like sound department and art design, but scores majestically on its amazing cinematography and brilliant camera work; it is shot beautifully. Good Night And Good Luck is a provocative homage to the martyrs who lived in the battlefield despite of ever entering one or preparing for one for that matter.

It is odd how, a historical biopic still has a box to check for spoiler alerts, as if to say that Americans don't know enough about their own history to actually know how this story is going to end.The fact is, they are right, we don't and we are seeing it all play out again.It is decent enough. The Black and White gives is a nice vintage feel to match the old television sets at the time and the use of authentic period advertisements is a beautiful touch. It not only sets the era, but it also works as a nice subtle hint towards what we are about to see, mainly the removal of news as a public service and the addition of news as a source of revenue.It all came to end in the unclimatic demise of the Fairness and Accuracy Act, the one that had been destroyed long--almost two decades--before "Good Night, and Good Luck" was even filmed.2005 was the release date, well into the Bush Administration, well into the crackdown of anyone that disagreed with the president or the wars, or anything else touted as right-wing values.So on one hand it stands as a warning, this is what happened before and it is happening again today. Not unlike Miller's "The Crucible" served as that same warning during the Red Scare and HUAAC.And on the other hand it attacks the press. After all, at the time Fox viewers believed that Iraq perpetrated 9-11 and many still do. It shines the light on how the news became a tool of disinformation for the masses. How it went from standing for the truth to telling lies.And it also brings the journalists to account. Many traded access for accuracy and still are. Even today not a single news source, save Maddow ran anything that didn't utterly vilify Hillary in the last election. Before that they all seemed to agree that ignoring the truth about WMDs in Iraq, smearing Kerry, doing whatever it took to stay close to power was better that trying to take it on. They all seemed to think that towing the disinformation line made for better ratings and they largely still do.The fact is this movie came out over a decade ago and it is still important. The press, the fourth estate, with few exceptions, has yet to develop the fearless nerves to take on what they see as wrong, or lies. And the nation is suffering for it.

cold. and honest. more than a good work, an useful warning. magnificent performance of David Strathaim. and a new George Cloony who gives not exactly the portrait of a politician or the image of a team against a powerful adversary but the spirit of a period who could not be only slice from the past. a good film. but, more important, an useful one. for the science to respect the right tone about a delicate subject. for the remind about the fragile balance of power and about the democracy as a building in construction. for the wise definition of a status of media in society. for the inspired sketch of courage as part of duty. for the special portrait of hero. and for the universal message. because Mc Carthy is not only a character. maybe, only a temptation for each political actor.

Set during the reign of Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunt, Good Night, and Good Luck. is the story of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow's public battle against the senator. Shot in a beautiful black and white, the film details the pressure put on the public to declare loyalty to the United States and denounce Communism, as well as the struggle to resist that pressure. Murrow was able to leverage his position in the media to expose the evil of McCarthy's crusade, and the film shows the lengths he and his team had to go to do that, as well as some of the contradictions and compromises involved. David Strathairn is brilliant as Murrow, and all in all the film captures the mood and explores the terms at stake in that era with clear purpose. It's also an interesting film on the question of objectivity in journalism. Murrow has a definite perspective, and yet his reporting is fair and accurate. This kind of "activist" journalism is more honest and truthful and ultimately informative than the kind of false "objective" reporting we've been conditioned to accept as the standard.