A Powerful, Penetrating Look At Power

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2019)

25 November 2005. This black and white political drama echoes back to acting performances found in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eerily, Good Night with its retro-look and 2001 with its futuristic look both combined performances that had a subdued, hard, realistic presentation. While the pacing and the flow of the movie were slow, the musical score and at times the dramatic close shots and close ups that establish the mood help to minimize the absence of action and activity in a large portion of this movie. The content of this movie slowly crawls into understanding and the understating consequences are made without shrill, hyperactive tones - like an action movie or dramatic flair like All the President's Men (1976). The movie is a like a crack of a whip that is buffered with sound-absorbing shields that by the end of the movie, one understands the immensity of what happened but more in terms of the strong, powerful, cerebral, intellectual whiplashing of the character's verbal assault, but not emotional beating. Eight out of Ten Stars.