Good Night, and Good Luck.

[pphaneuf]

Went to see Good Night, and Good Luck with red_star_stone yesterday. Was a good movie, with a solid cast and equally solid. David Strathairn was hard core! The photography was excellent all around, with tight framing, excellent lighting, good use of changes in focus and depth of field, as well as a very good choice of film. It was shot on black and white film, but not a modern, sharp film like was used in Schindler's List, and not overdone, super-grainy film either, just a good, high silver content black and white film, with an apparently endless density range to show for it, very cool stuff.

There were a few weaknesses, of course. Some characters were rather ambiguous (maybe an advantage, not making them too campy either could have been difficult?), I didn't really get the arc with the Wershba couple, and the end was a bit sudden and quickly done.

Comments

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

i wanna see it !

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

So do I! We should conspire.

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

How about, er, tonight (that's Friday, March 3rd)? Send me an email to arrange details if that works, the only address of yours I have just bounced.

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

I don't think tonight is gonna work. I have to stay later at the office and the only available vewings are :
AMC Forum 22 (AMC)
2313 Ste-Catherine Ouest, Montréal
Ven., sam., dim.: 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50
Lun., mar., mer., jeu.: 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50

7:25 I am still working anf 9:50 will make it too late to then make it home by bus ( I live FAR! ).

Perhaps some nontuesday day next week at 7:25?

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

That should work. How about Monday? What better way to make a Monday not suck?

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

yup monday is good!

btw, during the day I am usually on irc at freenode.net which is the only IM type thing i can do at work.

[dwiseman.livejournal.com]

I saw this movie and thought it really captured the hostility and paranoia of the McCarthy era. I also think that it's important to note that this was a warning that even today, people are unjustly scrutinized for their beliefs, no matter how delusional we are about our progress. I watched an interview with Clooney, who pointed this out himself.

I think that the Wershbas were used as a microcosm to reflect this hostility and paranoia.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, some of the parallels with current affairs were quite disturbing.

At first, I thought the Wershbas were communists trying to keep a low profile, or something. Even if I didn't completely understand the arc, it certainly worked, as when they were going through the team to "clean" it, I was all "oh, he's gonna get caught", but really, it was nothing of the sort. They got me paranoid too, believing some utter crap.

Well done.