The Testimony of a Recent Dark Age of North American History

Rating: 8/10 (31 January 2007)

In the 40's and 50's, the United States of America promotes a witch-hunting led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported by the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1953, while fear ruling this nation and an incipient television, the CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn), duly supported by his producer and closer friend Fred Friendly (George Clooney) and his competent team, decides to use his talk show to expose the abusive senator and his contradictions.
"Good Night, and Good Luck" is a great movie about a recent dark age of North American history called the "witch-hunting", recalling the group of people in Massachusetts of the 1600's that hanged and imprisoned persons in Salem under the accusation of witchcraft. In this latest hunting, many careers and families were destroyed by the paranoia of communism, with shallow and even false accusations of being "pinkos" or communists. George Clooney made an excellent research and delivered a magnificent film. Using a stunning black and white cinematography with excerpts of footages from the fifties, and excellent cast, highlighting David Strathairn, and supported by a beautiful music score, this movie is a great example that politicians can deceive electors but not history. I hope that fifty years ahead of our time our grandsons and granddaughters have the chance to see a good movie about the lies in our contemporary history the same way we have had the chance to see "Good Night, and Good Luck". My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Boa Noite e Boa Sorte" ("Good Night and Good Luck")