I won't talk about the movie's different elements, because one element in it got my interest, and my anger as well; it's the script. Because the way how it choose its final goal annoyed me much, and ruined the viewing for me!
Here's a movie that defends media freedom in the age of big corporations, however through the story of a TV news producer who did such a criminal mistake under the name of media freedom. Ok, I can't accept a message like that, through a story like this!
It's based on the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report, investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, according to some documents which were sent to Mary Mapes, the program's prouder, that revealed how Bush had preferential treatment, and went absent without official leave for one year in 1972. However, the documents turned out to be fake, and airing them without verification cost Mapes her career!
The movie's lead character, played by Cate Blanchett, isn't a martyr; she's rather a fighter who missed her shot, that's why her climactic tirade, concerning disrupting the quest for truth, is weakened by the bitter truth of her act!
The same can be said about the phone call of the program's anchor Dan Rather, played by Robert Redford, in which he talks and talks about the end of honesty in the contemporary political media, rather the end of raising public awareness towards politics in the first place. But from where did all of that come?! This is, again, the right speech in the wrong place. The case in hand isn't Watergate scandal uncovered by media guys; it's a professional mistake, and a crime of defamation or disinformation, done by those media guys themselves!
The motive of Bill Burkett, played by Stacy Keach, to send the fake documents to the lead, was so poor. The thing is the script shrouded this point in mystery, and didn't even clear it up in the end, which hurt the whole thing!
Truth (2015) looks like a way less powerful version of JFK (1991). This time, the truth seekers got deeply confused, saw the white as black, and were proved wrong. It has a righteous message, no doubt about that, however it seemed eventually as if an attempt to absolve a TV producer who fell into the trap of promoting a lie, and that's the movie's worst.
It may have some good elements, but its script puts the balance in favor of muddle. We need more righteous messages in films, but without stories that may weaken them!
Here's a movie that defends media freedom in the age of big corporations, however through the story of a TV news producer who did such a criminal mistake under the name of media freedom. Ok, I can't accept a message like that, through a story like this!
It's based on the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report, investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, according to some documents which were sent to Mary Mapes, the program's prouder, that revealed how Bush had preferential treatment, and went absent without official leave for one year in 1972. However, the documents turned out to be fake, and airing them without verification cost Mapes her career!
The movie's lead character, played by Cate Blanchett, isn't a martyr; she's rather a fighter who missed her shot, that's why her climactic tirade, concerning disrupting the quest for truth, is weakened by the bitter truth of her act!
The same can be said about the phone call of the program's anchor Dan Rather, played by Robert Redford, in which he talks and talks about the end of honesty in the contemporary political media, rather the end of raising public awareness towards politics in the first place. But from where did all of that come?! This is, again, the right speech in the wrong place. The case in hand isn't Watergate scandal uncovered by media guys; it's a professional mistake, and a crime of defamation or disinformation, done by those media guys themselves!
The motive of Bill Burkett, played by Stacy Keach, to send the fake documents to the lead, was so poor. The thing is the script shrouded this point in mystery, and didn't even clear it up in the end, which hurt the whole thing!
Truth (2015) looks like a way less powerful version of JFK (1991). This time, the truth seekers got deeply confused, saw the white as black, and were proved wrong. It has a righteous message, no doubt about that, however it seemed eventually as if an attempt to absolve a TV producer who fell into the trap of promoting a lie, and that's the movie's worst.
It may have some good elements, but its script puts the balance in favor of muddle. We need more righteous messages in films, but without stories that may weaken them!