August 10, 2006

Rose colored glasses?

As in: Media

I recently rented Fog of War from Netflix and was impressed by a couple things:

  1. Through clever use of music and stock footage, the filmmakers were able to leave all the narration to McNamara, who had a very engaging narrative style.
  2. Villain documentary is interesting--I read the autobiography of Joseph Haldemaan, Nixon's chief of staff, and found interesting levels of self-justification and self-blame. A similar situation occurs here: McNamara is pretty blunt about the mistakes they made, but he still comes out looking good.
  3. He seems to doubt that Agent Orange hurt anybody.
  4. Throughout the movie, I couldn't help but think of Ted Steven's vigorous defense of his pork-barrel bridge boondoggle. I say NO!.
Posted by briley at August 10, 2006 7:12 AM