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Domenica 10/05: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers "

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19

A brave TV journalist fights against McCarthy and his "witch hunt".
A lesson of genuine liberalism that takes its cue from the past

is the evening of October 25, 1958, a dinner celebrating the work of Edward R. Murrow, the CBS anchorman and journalist, host of the talk show Person to Person and See It Now newsletter: group photo, the hum of voices, the blues in the air. In controluce, delineato dal fumo della sigaretta, ecco il profilo di Murrow, che poi sale sul podio a parlare. Parole dure e quiete: siamo tutti grassi e felici, la televisione è fatta per distrarci e isolarci, riflette solo evasione e decadenza…

Stacco: 14 ottobre 1953. Comincia qui, durante una normale riunione di redazione, la guerra privata di Ed Murrow (che durante la Seconda guerra mondiale si è fatto una grande reputazione con i suoi reportage da Londra squassata dalle bombe naziste) contro il moloch aggressivo che minaccia le libertà elementari degli Stati Uniti: il senatore Joseph McCarthy, che con la sua Commissione per le attività antiamericane sta indagando, processando, rovinando chiunque gli capiti a shooting, everyone is so determined to defend freedom of speech, of opinion, movement, expression. The fear and suspicion in the air, but Murrow and CBS do not pull back.

speaks of this Good Night, and Good Luck: Television, he must also "instruct and illuminate otherwise are just wires and lights in a box", and genuine liberalism, and where there is contradictory information, and a challenge won for persistence.

George Clooney comes to mind an episode from the past to the present, and does so with a courage that is not only ideal, but also stylistically. Closed between the offices and studios of CBS and the corner bar where you meet journalists (apart from two very brief family scenes), stubbornly stuck to the faces and gestures of the characters and their close dialogue, punctuated with a speed adrenaline but also knows how to take minutes of silence, "Good Night, and Good Luck" reworks a classic structure ( that of the Kazan-Lumet-Penn 50s and 60s) with the sequences, the overlapping dialogue and the zoom of U.S. cinema 70s, Altman and Scorsese. Okay, not "lighter" does not give space to distraction. With a contrasting black and white and pasty, dialogues laced with Ben Hecht, an original cast (David Strathairn, surrounded by Clooney, Daniels, Langella, Downey jr. And others), takes in perfetto equilibrio il piacere della narrazione e l’esigenza morale.


Domenica 10 maggio 2009 h.20,30
Good night, and good luck (di George Clooney, USA 2005)


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