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Good Night, and Good Luck.

George Clooney

With George Clooney, David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, Robert Downey Jr.

We are in the 50s. On the Glorious USA falls, terrible, terrible, the threat of Communism. All is fair to stop it. Everyone should stop it, but apparently, the real threat is not the nightmare Red, but what the fights. Senator Joseph McCarthy, but to remove every trace of Communism from the U.S., is willing to violate the rights of the people who investigate, is willing to violate the law, is willing to do anything. But he will find against a man magnet, quiet, sad, seriously. Edward Murrow, host of CBS, is ready to begin a crusade against the Senator, which will mark the beginning of the end of the so-called "McCarthyism."

with this kind of film I find myself always in difficulties. This is history, not a cazzatina invented by an inspired writer sitting on the toilet bowl right in her huge house in Hollywood. E 'history. McCharty is existed, McCarthyism marked the '50s in America, has worn out. Ed Murrow was just one of many, but good use has its own space, without having to leave because he was not actually part of, acting on their wits against the New Inquisition, trying to beat it with his own words .

The black and white, the excessive use of stock footage make it seem almost a documentary, but the excellent direction of Clooney brings in more intimate environments, behind the cameras, behind the desk leads us to celebrate with the employees of the CBS news investigation into the Senator. Actors are excellent, and the small details in the plot, as the "secret" by Robert Downey Jr. and companion, maximize "Good Night, and Good Luck" to auteur palatable to all. And I quote his Lordship Guzzano Alessio, who says: "In the film that breaks all records of cigarettes, to smoking, there is not even a breath."

Clooney was good not only directing, but also in the choice of making this film at a time like this, showing how, despite past fifty years, the problems are the same and perhaps will never change.

Ed Murrow: Goodnight, and Good Luck.

Good Night, And Good Luck, 2005