Saturday, September 10, 2011
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
Today's film was the NYTimes Critics' Pick
This is good 9-11 viewing. It shows the insanity that ensued after the planes hit their targets and the runup to the Iraq War.
It is the story of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. Both of whom were attacked and outed by the Bushies as they undermined the case there were WMD's in Iraq.
There is a lot of inside stuff about what went down. Scooter (god) Libby and Karl Rove and other minions of the bush wars.
But at heart, it is a story of a marriage in the throes of deep stress.
Sean Penn and Naomi Watts are great as are many of the associates and friends who turn out to be weasels. There aren't many heroes in this film. But two is plenty enough.
I liked it a lot. For such a bureaucratic mess, it is well told, clear and fast paced. We are allowed to think for ourselves and sift the facts.
Of course the bushies are the villains. But we knew that.
There is a lot of video showing George lying and evading. Enough of Scooter and his nasty abuse of power. Enough of the CIA bureaucrats who knew the bushes were wrong, dead wrong, and folded to their power. The Wilsons were having none of it.
I will give this film a 4 out of Netflix5. I would not mind seeing it again just to see the mendacity and to get recharged over the terrible shit that went down at that time.
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