Good Night, and Good Luck is George Clooney’s second film as director. It focuses on the story of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow as he tries to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy during a period where McCarthy led some wide ranging and intense investigations into suspected communist sympathisers in the US. Generally his investigations were considered witch hunts and much of the nation was gripped with the fear of being fingered by his investigators, guilty or not, while others raged against the suspension of civil liberties for some supposed national security.
Shot in black and white and starring David Strathairn (The Firm, LA Confidential), Robert Downey Jr, Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber), Patricia Clarkson (Jumanji) and Clooney himself it certainly looks a step up from the misfit movie that was Clooney’s directorial debut, Welcome to Collingwood. In light of today’s current hunt for terrorists where everyone of Middle Eastern or Asian decent seems to be eyed with suspicion this seems somehow very apt.
A story about how the few, armed with the media, stood between the people and governmental tyranny in what is supposed to be, the land of the free.
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